At 31,000 meters under the Pacific floor, pressure is a thousand times higher than at the sea surface sufficient to bend ...

Fracture-hosted methane hydrate deposits exist at many sites worldwide. The growth behavior of CH₄ hydrate in fractured media was simulated by TOUGH + HYDRATE (T + H) code. The effects of fracture ...

Naturally occurring methane hydrate deposits are potential sources of energy. However, their observation in natural environments remains challenging. Researchers have now developed a one-dimensional ...

Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering Mikhail Varfolomeev explains, "Gas hydrates are solid crystalline substances which look like ice and consist of gas and water molecules. Gas molecules ...

video: LSU School of the Coast and Environment offers footage of hydrate formation. The process is a smaller-scale version of the oil spill containment unit's freezing. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, ...

The only one of its kind in Australia, the flow loop can simulate gas-liquid flows at high pressures and low temperatures – conditions that oil and gas pipelines are subjected to in deep-sea ...

A pair of valves positioned at the gas lift to produce double expansion addressed the main causes of hydrate formation in production from wells at Alrar-oil Rim field in Algeria, eliminating ...

Forward-looking energy companies that have been considering the possibility of exploiting methane gas hydrates in the northern Gulf of Mexico in the coming decades should think again. Forward-looking ...

Current Science is a fortnightly journal published since 1932 by the Current Science Association, Bangalore (India) in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences. The journal covers all ...