Sentences with phrase «methane hydrates exist»

We know shallow meta - stable methane hydrates exist outside of the Hydrate Stability Zone in the arctic permafrost.

As countries produce more conventional and unconventional fuels, the planet is warming in areas where methane hydrates exist.

Beyond that, more than 95 percent of the world's methane hydrates exist in deep - ocean settings where it is unlikely water would ever heat up enough to significantly destabilize them.

There is a precise curve of temperatures and pressures that define the depth at which methane hydrates exist.

Not exact matches

Gas hydrates — a mixture of ice and methane — are found only under high pressure and at cold temperatures, and they are expected to make up a significant portion of the energy mix once existing oil fields dwindle, says David Scott, manager of the Northern Resources Development Program for Natural Resources Canada.

Because human - made warming is more rapid than natural long - term warmings in the past, there is concern that methane hydrate or peat feedbacks could be more rapid than the feedbacks that exist in the paleoclimate record.

The Department of Energy said it also has the potential to eventually unlock massive reservoirs of methane hydrates that are believed to exist under the ocean floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

which may be true for all I know but does not offer any mechanism by which methane hydrates (clathrates) may be destabilized, because they do not and can not exist at 50 m depth.

While prior DOE research and outside studies have confirmed that the methane hydrate resource volume present appears to be substantial and the accumulations that can be explored for and produced using existing technologies are potentially numerous, significant research remains to:

«[Methane] gas hydrate at high concentrations in sand reservoirs represent the best combination for production using existing technologies.»