UT Geologists Extract Potential Natural Gas Source From the Ocean Floor

10/23/2017

In a University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences lab lie 1.2-meter-long cylinders—21 of them, each one pressurized, chilled, and containing methane hydrate, a compound extracted from the depths of the ocean floor. Each liter could potentially serve as a century’s worth of energy for the United States. Read more