South Korea is working on a mid-term plan to explore oil and gas reserves off the country's coast as part of efforts to help reduce its heavy reliance on foreign crude imports, an energy ministry official said. "The government plans to ...
Tags: Oil, LNG, foreign crude imports
Japan made landmark progress in 2013 in methane hydrate development -- carrying out the world's maiden offshore production test and later confirming the existence of "substantial" structures containing shallow methane in the Sea of Japan in ...
Tags: Methane Hydrates, Chemicals
This image shows carbonate crusts at the observing site HYBIS at 385 meters water depth. For comparison: the white organisms in the right part of the picture have a length of about 15 cm. Carbonates of this size require several 100 years to ...
Tags: methane hydrates, global warming, gas hydrates, GEOMAR
A research team has found China's most promising natural gas hydrate deposits under the Pearl River, improving chances the icelike formations will ease the country's energy shortages, scientists said on Tuesday. The discovery showed about ...
Tags: natural gas, Energy
Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, Thursday asked visiting US energy secretary Ernest Moniz to move forward the two countries' bilateral agreement on methane hydrate cooperation, a METI source said. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy