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ottom water temperatures are low. Thus they probably also have high gas<br />

hydrate potential, with possible hydrate resources at the seafloor.<br />

The areas identified on Figure 28 as having high gas hydrate potential<br />

coincide with those localities where gas hydrates have been found already.<br />

Elsewhere, high potential exists in the Arctic and Antarctic, Bearing Sea,<br />

Barents Sea, Labrador Sea, eastern margin of North and South America, the<br />

African margin, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, off Pakistan and eastern India,<br />

north-west Australia, south-west New Zealand and the Sea of Okhotsk, Japan<br />

and the western European Margin. The ELCS (extended legal continental<br />

shelf) regions that coincide with these areas of high gas hydrate potential are<br />

ranked, from high to low, on Table 9 below.<br />

Table 9. ELCS regions that coincide with areas of high gas hydrate potential, ranked<br />

from high to low potential.<br />

ELCS region Location Hydrate<br />

potential<br />

Coastal States<br />

Canada<br />

1. Arctic Ocean High<br />

Russia<br />

USA<br />

2. Arctic Ocean High Canada<br />

9. North-East Atlantic High Norway<br />

10. Barents Sea High Norway<br />

Burma<br />

15 Bay of Bengal High<br />

India<br />

Sri Lanka<br />

13. Sea of Okhotsk High Russia<br />

12. Bering Sea High Russia<br />

Kenya<br />

18. Arabian Sea<br />

High<br />

Somalia<br />

Tanzania<br />

USA<br />

5. North-west Atlantic Moderate Canada<br />

Greenland<br />

24 (southern South-West Atlantic Moderate Argentina<br />

27 & 28 Southern Ocean Moderate Antarctia<br />

7(east) North-East Altantic Low<br />

United Kingdom<br />

Iceland<br />

23 (central) West Africa Low<br />

Namibia<br />

Angola<br />

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