In a move to get closer to developing its own domestic fossil fuel, Japan is extracting natural gas from an offshore deposit of methane hydrates. The tests that are set to run until the end of ...

This glowing ledge showed that the mound contained methane hydrate, a lattice of frozen water that traps methane gas molecules within its icy cages. If you grabbed a snowball of the stuff ...

Hydrates form when gas and water molecules fuse in low-temperature, high-pressure conditions. A cagelike structure of solidified water traps methane within it. Most of the deposits, some small and ...

Meet methane hydrates, the world's most promising and perilous energy resource. Methane is the principal component of natural gas, and massive amounts of it are trapped in reservoirs beneath the ...

Otherwise known as fire ice, methane hydrate presents as ice crystals with natural methane gas locked inside. They are formed through a combination of low temperatures and high pressure ...

Researchers have identified a new source of methane for gas hydrates -- ice-like substances found in sediment that trap methane within the crystal structure of frozen water -- in the Arctic Ocean.

In seas near Japan in March 2013, methane gas was successfully extracted from seafloor hydrates—a world first. However, there are remaining technical hurdles to overcome before this becomes a ...

The gas at issue here is called methane hydrate. Methane is natural gas; hydrate means there's water in it. In this case, the molecules of gas are trapped inside a sort of cage of water molecules.

Several rudimentary scientific studies on sediments and water have been conducted mainly in Balochistan for methane hydrate reserves. Pakistan-German research vessels reported oceanic gas hydrates ...

11 March 2011 was a turning point for Japan’s energy sector as the country witnessed the second biggest nuclear disaster in the history of mankind after the 1986-Chernobyl incident. The infamous ...