Methane hydrates occur in five geographic settings (or sectors) that must be individually evaluated to determine their susceptibility to warming climate (Figure 1). The percentages assigned to ...

Researchers at NETL, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, are helping develop a visualization tool for methane, the main component of natural gas, that could aid in safer removals of ...

Methane hydrates are extremely difficult to study, and could either be an important energy source or a source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 20 times more potent than CO2.

Fire-ice is a frozen form of methane hydrate, a natural gas. As Wired explained, "Under sufficiently low temperatures and high pressure, methane gas and liquid water freeze together under the ...

DOE and the industry are trying to figure out how to tap the largest one of all—the methane hydrates that lie frozen under vast areas of seafloor and Arctic permafrost. Worldwide, hydrates may ...

Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. The NETL Methane Hydrates Program is a Research Fellowship Program designed to support the ...

Scientists have made a startling discovery. Vast reservoirs of methane hydrates locked away for millennia are showing signs of instability.” The finding sent ripples of concern throughout the ...

🇨🇳 China is constructing a groundbreaking deep-sea space station 2,000 meters beneath the South China Sea, set to be fully ...