Partnership plans methane hydrate testing

New well is part of a three-well project to test and evaluate sustained gas production from hydrates under North Slope permafrost

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has published information relating to a new methane hydrate well that was completed in January in the western part of the Prudhoe Bay unit on the North Slope. The drilling of the well forms part of a project aimed at testing the produc....

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Stratigraphic test well

Hydrates on the North Slope

Planning the project

Hydrate targets