Experiments show that ensuring oil and gas production under certain pressures and temperatures requires a thorough understanding of the effects of inhibitors on gas hydrate formation and dissociation.

A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural gas and the world’s vast ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of ...

A study published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters highlights the discovery of a new hydrogen clathrate hydrate that could improve the storage and transportation of hydrogen fuels. The ...

Unfortunately Mann offers precious little data on price or production rates. If Mann’s data on methane hydrates is correct, then Japan’s experiment so far has taken 10 years and $700 million to ...

It sounds like an addictive drug. And that may become an accurate description for the frozen fossil-fuel deposits that go by the name “flammable ice.” On Tuesday, Japan announced that it had tapped ...

A study last week suggested that there could be up to 400 billion metric tonnes of methane under the Antarctic ice sheet. The concern this study flagged up was the effect on the climate such a large ...

Shale has the spotlight for now. But there's another, lesser-known substance with the potential to yield even greater quantities of natural gas: methane hydrate. Hydrates consist of a lattice-like ...

Combustible ice is seen burning on an ultra-deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig near the coast in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, recently. [Photo/Xinhua] A natural gas hydrate national laboratory ...

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have experimentally shown that methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) can exist as gas hydrates at temperatures and pressures seen in interstellar ...