Japan in Drive for Hydrates

Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corporation (Jogmec) carried out the world’s first offshore production test of methane hydrates. The successful test, which methane gas erupting from the seabed in areas about 17.6 kilometres off the Cape of Shionomisaki. The Wakayama prefecture is going to ask Tokyo to extend.However, gas industry sources contend that it could take 15 years before the technology to commercially methane hydrate deposits becomes available.

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