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.

Management Prescriptions: the “how-to” of Lake Kivu

The world’s experts on Lake Kivu’s gas extraction methods and safety requirements met in Switzerland and then Denmark from 2007 to 2009 to draft the lake’s rules-of-use.

Hydragas Sway Presentation on Lake Kivu

Check out this Microsoft Sway presentation format for investor interest in Lake Kivu’s development

Sea Floor Mapping Upgrades

Advances in Sea Floor Mapping Extract from the BOEM Article Showing the Location of New Under-sea MappingNorthern Gulf of Mexico deepwater bathymetry grid. We create this from 3-D seismic surveys. The grid defines water depth with 1.4 billion 12 × 12 meter cells. BOEM grid coverage is limited to the area defined by rainbow colors. […]

Breakdown of Arctic Methane Hydrates

To recognise important changes coming in the Arctic, learn the lessons of past lessons showing up in the sub-sea mapping

Impact Investment funding; funding for net-zero energy?

Would we see the end of suicidal “lemming” investment funding strategies after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008? Perhaps not, it’s still alive ten years on, but still hard to find for some great niche investments.

We Need a Hero to Make Projects Legendary

Rory Harbinson was the “MacGyver” of our project team. He was always the “man with a plan” when ideas were needed to fix anything.