Methane Hydrates News Today

New research has shown that frozen methane which is trapped as a solid under our oceans is vulnerable to melting due to climate change and could be released into the sea as greenhouse gas.

Heres how Earth-like landscapes may have formed on Saturns moon Titan - In the new study, researchers have tried to explain the presence of sand dunes in Titan. This process has been found similar to that of Earth.

Be pumped up to the awaiting ship by pumping hot water down. basically the top hat as its called is a smaller version of the containment dome that failed on saturday as it got clogged up with methane hydrates. basically slush-like ice crystals. while the idea to keep that from forming on the top hat is because its 5,000 feet below the surface, very cold down there. what you have is a pipe within a pipe. the oil goes up the inner pipe and hot water is going down the outer tube, keeping the inner ...

Westward past the mouth of the mississippi, and that has a whole lot of people concerned not only around the gulf coast states but throughout the rest of the country because the mississippi river is a major highway of transportation as far as shipping and traffic of merchant goods to get in and out of the country and from state to state. gregg: how does bp hope to remedy this dome plan? >> reporter: they havent given up on the 100-ton containment dome just yet. the issue down below is 5,000 feet...