Methane Hydrate Research Paper

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Methane Hydrate is the world's largest natural gas resource but is confined below permafrost and ocean sediments. Oil and gas researchers are working to advance new technologies to make natural gas from methane hydrate deposits. Methane hydrate deposits are important to research because they are thought to be a much bigger hydrocarbon resource than all of the world’s coal, natural gas, and oil put together. In my research paper I will tell you what Methane hydrate is, where methane hydrate is found and produced, the hazards of methane hydrate and its potential to become an important energy source in the future.
Methane hydrates are water molecules that form a cage-like arrangement at a certain temperature and pressure environment. This cage-like

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