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Vol. 17, No. 29 Week of July 15, 2012
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Researching Beaufort Sea methane hydrate

USGS and university scientists seek evidence for impact of climate change on known methane hydrate deposits close to coastline

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

It has long been known that deposits of methane hydrate, an ice-like substance that traps methane, the primary component of natural gas, lie below the seafloor under the shallow waters of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea. But concerns about the possibility that the warming climate may be causing these hydrates....

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Offshore vulnerable

Ice-bonded strata

Methane concentrations


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