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A project involving the testing of methane hydrate production on the North Slope is on hold, pending a U.S. Department of Energy decision on whether to continue to provide funding support for the ...
China is the global leader in the renewable energy sector. Now, the country plans on digging a little deeper, 6,000 ft below ...
ASRC Energy Services Alaska has received authority from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas to extend its methane hydrate production test program at the 7-11-12 pad on ...
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Permafrost and Carbon Bombs
The Frozen Ground Under Threat Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer, stretching over vast regions, mainly near the ...
A scientific drilling mission in the Gulf of Mexico has returned with 44 cores from a methane hydrate reservoir deep under the seafloor. Globally, energy-rich methane hydrates hold an estimated 15 ...
Where known methane hydrates can be found., CC BY-NC-SA The good news is that only 3.5% of the world’s hydrate resides in the vulnerable zone, in this precarious state. Most hydrate is instead ...
A new scientific claim about a burst of methane from the sea floor 125,000 years ago raises questions about our climate future.
Researchers have developed a new system to model the likelihood of finding methane hydrate and methane gas that was tested in a region of seafloor off the coast of North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Methane hydrate, an ice-like material made of compressed natural gas, burns when lit and can be found in some regions of the seafloor and in Arctic permafrost. Thought to be the ...
Gulf methane hydrates Plans are progressing for the next stage of methane hydrate scientific drilling by the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and its partners on the US Outer Continental Shelf ...
Clathrate (hydrate) gun hypothesis stirred quite the controversy when it was posed in 2003. It stated that methane hydrates—frozen water cages containing methane gas found below the ocean floor ...