The seabed is lousy with methane clathrate all over the high latitudes.

In 2013, its corporate workers first extracted Methane clathrate from seabed deposits.

Japan becomes the first country to successfully extract natural gas from offshore methane clathrate deposits.

A related issue is the methane clathrate reservoirs found under sediments on the ocean floors.

Methane clathrate, or hydrates, occur within and below permafrost soils.

Methane extracted from methane clathrate is therefore a candidate for future fuels.

There are valuable fishing grounds around the islets and potentially large reserves of methane clathrate.

The ice-core methane clathrate record is a primary source of data for global warming research, along with oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Another remarkable polychaete is Hesiocaeca methanicola, which lives on methane clathrate deposits.

Extremely large deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the sea and ocean floors of Earth.

The cave also releases methane clathrate.

As an additional point of contention, Christopher is also becoming a player in alternative energy (methane clathrate recovery), thereby eschewing the oil business.

After several expeditions it becomes clear that the worms, together with bacteria, are destabilizing the methane clathrate in the continental shelf.

Methane clathrate deposits in the ocean floor have been found to be inhabited by polychaete worms of the species Hesiocaeca methanicola.

Large deposits of fossil fuels are obtained from the Earth's crust, consisting of coal, petroleum, natural gas and methane clathrate.

Henry tells him, briefly, about the breakdown of the methane clathrate beds and the methane pouring out of the Arctic Ocean.

Methane is often sequestered in an ice-like form (methane clathrate, also called gas hydrate) in the forearc.

Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure.

Methane hydrate, also called methane ice or methane clathrate, consists of methane, which is enclosed in frozen water.

The release of large amounts of methane clathrate can impact on global δC values, as at the PETM.

One litre of methane clathrate solid would therefore contain, on average, 168 litres of methane gas (at STP).

The science fiction novel Mother of Storms by John Barnes offers a fictional example of catastrophic climate change caused by methane clathrate release.

Methane released from thawing permafrost such as the frozen peat bogs in Siberia, and from methane clathrate on the sea floor, creates a positive feedback.

The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits in runaway climate change could be a cause of past, future, and present climate changes.

Typical guests forming Type I hydrates are CO in carbon dioxide clathrate and CH in methane clathrate.

Recently, significant efforts have been made in understanding of methane hydrates and their potential as a future energy resource.

Also, a likely contributor is the dissociation of methane hydrates.

One reason for concern about a methane hydrate apocalypse is that something like it may have happened several times in the past.

However, there are several major problems with the methane hydrate dissociation hypothesis.

Furthermore the consequences of climate change for methane hydrates are illustrated.

There are other energy sources that may be developed in the future as well, such as methane hydrates.

It can, however, reveal the challenges and risks that face countries hoping to take advantage of methane hydrate.

In this article, we'll explore all the positives and negatives of methane hydrate.

For starters, he says, the theory doesn't offer a good explanation of the initial change that melted the methane hydrates.

It did not work as methane hydrates froze in the upper levels preventing the containment.

Methane hydrate is often described as "methane gas surrounded by ice."

Underwater detonations to break up beds of methane hydrate and release the gas into the atmosphere.

"It could be more positive feedback, like the methane hydrates unfreezing on the continental shelves."

When the gas is methane it is called a methane hydrate.

We have learned about blowout preventers, methane hydrates, oil booms, etc.

Methane hydrate is a common constituent of the shallow marine (ocean) geosphere.

In addition, As for "the methane hydrate", existence is confirmed in the American bottom of the sea.

It's mud containing methane hydrate, icelike crystals that form at low temperatures and high pressure.

Large deposits of methane hydrate are found off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

This causes methane hydrate to decompose and generates methane gas.

An equally elusive fuel is methane hydrates, basically natural gas trapped in ice in places like Alaska.

Or to belittle the prevention of a methane hydrate tsunami off the East Coast."

The discovery of this new type of methane, what scientists call methane hydrate, has led to two important questions.

Global emissions from methane hydrates are estimated to be around 2 to 9 Tg of methane per year.

The vent was found in an area of seafloor known to contain ice-like formations called methane hydrates.

We set fire to a jet of oxygen, and let it burn in our hydromethane atmosphere."

Pluto's surface is covered mostly with methane ice and frost.

Beyond the dome stretched rolling mounds of rock and methane ice.

Even the methane ice hills loomed like rumpled blue steel.

Or perhaps, since comets were known to have methane ices, one had blundered into the atmosphere.

As the door closed behind them they could feel a strange groaning through the floor as the methane ice broke up and melted.

"They'll let the temperature rise behind us enough to allow the methane ice to melt back to liquid as soon as were out.

Peter felt the fear when he heard that awful groan as methane ice turned to liquid in the final chamber behind them, closing their escape.

Christopher is looking into alternative energy sources such as methane ice, which could cause some problems since the family has been in the oil business for decades.

Cirrus clouds composed of methane ice exist on Uranus.

Centuries would elapse before Pluto again saw methane ice sublime into its pink haze.

Limitations were also placed on the amount of methane ice (less than 30%) leaving open the possibility for discovery of other components in the future.

"The methane ice probably sublimated in the solar wind from Bajor's sun, and it didn't have enough left to hold it together."

The markers are consistent with a mass extinction, or with a massive warming resulting from the release of methane ice.

The Cancri disk may contain methane ice, which is found among objects in the Kuiper belt.

This is a world of ices-nitrogen ice, methane ice, probably underlain by more familiar water ice and rock.

Both bodies also have a weak absorption band near 2.3 μm, which may be caused by ammonia hydrate or methane ice.

Scientists speculate that Triton's cold surface may be covered with methane ice and pools of liquid nitrogen under a reddish haze.

The pink and reddish surface regions are believed to be the result of chemical transformations of methane ice caused by solar radiation.

Onward- "On the sunrise side those winds meet sunlight and melting methane ice, and so it rains.

Large stores of methane can be found in the form of methane ice under permafrost and on continental shelves.

The pinks and reds could be the result of solar radiation darkening the methane ice that probably coats much of Triton.

As atmospheric gases flow up over the spot, they cool to form the scatterings of bright white clouds, composed of methane ice crystals.

The worms colonize the methane ice and appear to survive by gleaning bacteria which in turn metabolize the clathrate.

Some of these extraterrestrial cirrus clouds are composed of ammonia or methane ice rather than water ice.

The radiation contributed to the erosion of material in Neptune's rings and was chemically modifying the methane ices on the planet's moons.

"That is impossible," the grandmother said in her fire ice voice.

They fired ice arrows up at ice geese and brought them down.

Bolan fired ice at one to his left, catching him in the gut and left thigh.

The primary weapon of both the hovertank and the gammajet is a gun that fires ice projectiles.

Fires ice projectiles 7 spaces, making it extremely useful on maps with lot of water, forcing almost all fire units to maintain a safe distance.

Unlike other versions of the character, The Batman interpretation fires ice blasts directly out of his hands rather than from a gun.

He did stunt ski work for Willy Bogner's James Bond spoof Fire Ice & Dynamite.

FIRE ICE, by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos.

Methane hydrates (fire ice) are a crystalline form of methane trapped in water, occurring in deep-water continental shelf sediments in many parts of the world, including New Zealand.

Paul Kemprecos co-authored the Numa Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, and Fire Ice, and is a Shamus Award-winning author of six underwater detective thrillers.

Fire Ice is the third book in the NUMA Files series of books co-written by best-selling author Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos, and was published in 2002.

His next thriller, "Fire Ice," written with Paul Kemprecos, will be published this June by Putnam, where Mr. Cussler has a good editor, Neil S. Nyren, whether he needs him or not.

Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of twenty-two previous books, including, most recently, the number-one bestseller Valhalla Rising, the NUMA Files novel Fire Ice, and the nonfiction work The Sea Hunters II.

Prism Leisure released the film on DVD in 2002, on a 2 Disc/4 DVD disc compilation consisting of Merchant of Death, Musketeers Forever, Fire Ice & Dynamite and Paradise Lost.

Max is already on the hit list of the homicidal Evil Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy), who pursues him in Max's dreams, firing ice cream balls from a giant cone atop his truck, and by day, when he would happily mash the boy into the pavement.

CLIVE CUSSLER is the author or coauthor of twenty-four previous books, most recently the Dirk Pitt adventure Valhalla Rising, the Kurt Austin novels Fire Ice and White Death, and the Juan Cabrillo novel The Golden Buddha.

Mallik - An exploration site that encompasses fields of natural gas hydrates.

Natural gas hydrates have long been known to exist in sediments beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

These natural gas hydrates are seen as a potentially vast energy resource, but an economical extraction method has so far proven elusive.

In Arctic regions, natural gas hydrate deposits mostly occur in sand-rich units in association with permafrost.

Six wells were successfully drilled to test natural gas hydrate accumulations off the southeastern coast of Japan, and to explore a conventional Tertiary structure.

However, natural gas hydrates do not contain only methane but also other hydrocarbon gases, as well as HS and CO.

The wells were successfully drilled to test a major natural gas hydrate accumulation in the Mackenzie Delta of the northwestern Canadian Arctic.

Natural gas hydrates seem to mostly occur in high concentrations in the sand units, representing up to 70% of the pore space and are largely absent from the mud sequences.

Examples include exploitation of oil sands and shale oil, deepwater drilling, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining, petroleum exploration in the Arctic, and natural gas hydrates.

In May 2009 the US Geological Survey announced the discovery of thick natural gas hydrate deposits beneath the Gulf of Mexico that are recoverable by current technology.

Nearly all of the natural gas hydrate accumulations identified in the Nankai Trough region occur at a depth of around 290 to 300 meters below the seafloor (1,240 meters below sea-level).

In 2009, MSNBC relied on Romm to assess natural gas hydrates, and Romm was featured on 60 Minutes discussing his belief that clean coal is not clean.

It is generally believed that the majority of natural gas hydrate deposits around the world exist in fine-grained sediments in a dispersed and low-concentrated form, with hydrate saturations of between 1 and 12%.

Nearly all of the natural gas hydrate accumulations identified in the Mallik area are situated beneath a 300 to 700 meter-thick layer of permafrost, at an expected depth of between 890 and 1,100 meters below the surface.

During the project, a suite of several different open-hole logs could be obtained by using advanced and new gas hydrate logging tools, giving first insights into the reservoir thickness and general natural gas hydrate saturations.

The most important natural gas hydrate research site in the area, the Mallik gas hydrate field, was discovered in 1971 through an exploration well by Imperial Oil Ltd., and is located 50 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.

As natural gas hydrates are assumed to underlie large portions of the world's Arctic continental areas and marine continental shelf and are a tremendous potential future hydrocarbon resource, the Mallik drill site is a location of major interest.

While the ANS is remote, recent research in the region has offered groundbreaking insights concerning the potential to predict and identify significant occurrences of natural gas hydrates (NGH) in subsurface reservoirs, as well as its future production potential.

The Borehole Research Group (BRG) makes and analyzes geophysical measurements down drill holes in continental or seafloor crust to study such phenomena as sea level variation, fluid flow through fractured rock, and the properties of natural gas hydrates.

Utilities: Binary Data Regression, Phase Envelope, Natural Gas Hydrates, Pure Component Properties, True Critical Point, PSV Sizing, Vessel Sizing, Spreadsheet and Petroleum Cold Flow Properties.

However, natural gas hydrate accumulations on the North Slope are increasingly the focus of energy resource and climate studies, both of which seek to understand how much hydrate is located within this region and how those deposits may respond to natural and/or induced changes in pressure and/or temperature.