The invisible key to methane hydrates Date: June 2, 2015 Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Summary: Researchers are studying the role that methane nanobubbles might play in the formation ...

Gas hydrates are a solid compound of gases and water that have an ice-like structure at low temperatures and high pressures. Compounds of methane and water, so-called methane hydrates, are found ...

Energy-hungry Japan extracts natural gas from deep-sea methane hydrates, but it’s not clear whether the “flammable ice” makes economic and environmental sense.

Burned gas separated from methane hydrate gas is seen on the deep-sea drilling vessel "Chikyu" in the Pacific, off Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in this handout photo taken and released by ...

Below water depths of about 300 metres, pressure and temperature conditions cause methane to form ice-like crystals of methane hydrate1. Marine deposits of methane hydrate are estimated to be ...

Japan says it had successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate off its central coast, ... Japan to review nuclear phase-out. Published. 27 December 2012. Related internet links.

When it's coaxed into the liquid phase, ... Two years later, the U.S. Energy Department has $6.5 million in funding for research to get at the natural gas inside methane hydrate formations.

The tests being run at two different wells are the first since 2013, when Japan achieved the world's first-ever extraction of gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen gas known as ...

The U.S. has no urgent need to mine methane hydrates, says Boswell, because it will continue to have access to much cheaper natural-gas resources for some time to come.

In a first for the country, engineers extracted the gas from the so-called “flammable ice” – methane hydrate, where the gas is trapped in ice crystals – and converted it to natural gas in ...

Japan says it had successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate off its central coast, ... Japan to review nuclear phase-out. Published. 27 December 2012. Related internet links.