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Scientists Create, Study Methane Hydrates in 'Ocean Floor' Lab; Data May Help Develop Strategies for Mining Natural Gas Locked Up in Seafloor Sediments.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, March, 2005
Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory
SAN DIEGO, March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of methane-hydrates, an abundant but currently out-of-reach source of natural gas trapped within sediments below the ocean floor. Michael Eaton, a Stony Brook University graduate student working for Brookhaven chemist Devinder Mahajan, presented a talk Sunday outlining the use of the apparatus for the creation and study of methane hydrates during a special two-day symposium co-organized by Mahajan at the 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, California.
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