BNL-82182-2009-CP Four Critical Needs to Change the Hydrate Energy Paridigm from Assessment to Production: The 2007 Report to Congress by the U.S. Federal Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee D. Sloan, P. Brewer, N. Dutta, A. Johnson, E. Jones, K. Juenger, M. Kastner, D. Mahajan, S. Masutani, R. Swenson, J. Whelan, S. Wilson, R. Woolsey Presented at Offshore Technology Conference 2008 May 2008 Energy Science and Technology Department/Energy Resources Division Brookhaven National Laboratory P.O. Box 5000 Upton, NY 11973-5000 www.bnl.gov Notice: This manuscript has been authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The publisher by accepting the manuscript for publication acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This preprint is intended for publication in a journal or proceedings. Since changes may be made before publication, it may not be cited or reproduced without the author’s permission.