hydrates

Methane is ten times more effective a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and so much of it is trapped in hydrates that it could have a major effect on our climate.

Sewer Ice « Isegoria 2008

Methane is ten times more effective a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and so much of it is trapped in hydrates that it could have a major effect on our climate.

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Seawater got inside the dome and combined with leaking natural gas to form ice-like crystals called hydrates that clogged up the device.

BP Set to Try Risky Move to Contain Flow 2010

The presence of water scuttled an attempt by BP four weeks ago when icelike crystals, called hydrates, plugged the pipe.

Cap placed on well is slowing flow of oil into the gulf 2010

The crystals, known as hydrates, are a combination of frozen water and hydrocarbons that blocked the path of submarine cameras and a drill designed to recover pieces of drilling pipe from the blowout preventer.

Crystals Set Back Work at Gulf Well Site 2010

BP had anticipated that the crystallized gas, called hydrates, could form in the pipe connecting the dome to the surface vessel, but not inside the dome itself.

BP's Preparedness for Major Crisis Is Questioned 2010

BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals called hydrates clogged it, threatening to make it float away.

Oil Cap Removed: Oil Spill Now Gushing Unchecked 2010

Worldwide, particularly in deeply buried permafrost and in high-latitude ocean sediments where pressures are high and temperatures are below freezing, icy deposits called hydrates hold immense amounts of methane (

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BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals called hydrates clogged it, threatening to make it float away.

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BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals called hydrates clogged it, threatening to make it float away.

R&D Mag - News 2010