GAS HYDRATES ALASKA
March 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN researchers are developing new technologies that should help the energy sector tap potentially huge reserves of natural gas currently locked underground in frozen inhospitable permafrost regions of the far north. The Hot Ice No. 1 project is now being wrapped up, and although its wells in northern Alaska did not yield commercial quantities of gas hydrates - a compound of water and methane (the major component of natural gas) that forms under pressure at cold temperatures - technological advances made have given cause for celebration. ...
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