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Author: Philip Morkel

Philip Morkel founded Hydragas Energy to develop gas extraction from water technology. He has worked in resource industry megaprojects, and on Lake Kivu, developing extraction technology and being on the expert advisory group to governments. He is now fund-raising for a planned series of projects for Rwanda and DRC. The company is registered in Vancouver, Canada. He previously headed Barrick Gold's R&D Laboratory in Vancouver. Prior to that he led Hatch Limited's global oil and gas business unit, leading the company capability in LNG projects, gas-to-liquids and technology for unconventional oil and gas. For three years he led the projects in development team at Barrick Gold in Toronto, Canada, with a $30 billion portfolio of mining projects. Projects were located in four continents with challenging megaprojects in Chile, Russia, Pakistan, Africa and Alaska. Philip is a chemical engineer and project management professional with 30 years international project experience, from concept to construction, in mining, nuclear and oil and gas projects.

Ethanol from Lake Kivu’s CO2: Can it Double Clean Energy Output?

Ethanol from Lake Kivu - Already a Giant CCS System

Introduction Can we produce ethanol or methanol from Lake Kivu as an additional product to methane? If so, how? Methane is the primary energy form in the lake, which contains four times as much unusable CO2 in the reservoir. Academic research news offers a challenge and an opportunity to do much more for energy production […]

Sustainable Cooking Energy? #1 Use renewable natural gas.

Cooking on RNG to reduce deforestation

What does it take to help a country make a transition to sustainable cooking energy? Why would the people change their tradition? What then is the most Sustainable Cooking Energy for the East African region? And can you imagine a new idea that puts over 10,000 women entrepreneurs to work to deliver it? Think of […]