Technical ‘breakthrough’ in hydrates turns heads

C$25 million Mackenzie Delta test results spur talk of commercial pay-off

Gary Park

Petroleum News Calgary correspondent

The numbers are so big they scarcely have a name and the technology is so untried that commercial development could be decades away. But a staggering energy source is one step closer to being developed now that a team of global researchers has proclaimed that producing natural gas from hydrate depos....

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