Overview on Hydrate Coring, Handling and Analysis

• Main Authors: Burger, Jon, Gupta, Deepak, Jacobs, Patrick, Shillinglaw, John
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Westport Technology Center 2003
• Subjects: Thermodynamics; Sediments; Gas Hydrates; Hydrates; 29 Energy Planning; Policy And Economy; Preservation; Methane; Drilling; Carbon; 03 Natural Gas; Fossil Fuels; Distribution; Permafrost; Transport; Arctic; Westport; Ice; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/908303; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc889083/

Gas hydrates are crystalline, ice-like compounds of gas and water molecules that are formed under certain thermodynamic conditions. Hydrate deposits occur naturally within ocean sediments just below the sea floor at temperatures and pressures existing below about 500 meters water depth. Gas hydrate...