Gas hydrates and deep-sea cold seeps are of interest to industry and academia for several
reasons, including their implications for offshore geohazards and unconventional resources …

Deepwater hydrocarbon exploration drilling only began in the Black Sea less than 20 years
ago, primarily because of the economical/technological challenges associated with …

The East Siberian Arctic Shelf holds large amounts of inundated carbon and methane
(CH4). Holocene warming by overlying seawater, recently fortified by anthropogenic …

Numerous articles have recently reported on gas seepage offshore Svalbard, because the
gas emission from these Arctic sediments was thought to result from gas hydrate …

China carried out a drilling campaign in the eastern part of the Pearl River Mouth (PRM)
basin and successfully obtained natural gas hydrate samples in 2013. Laboratory based …

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in domestic energy production from
unconventional reservoirs. This energy boom has generated marked economic benefits, but …

Crude oil and gases in the seabed provide an important energy source for subsurface
microorganisms. We investigated the role of archaea in the anaerobic degradation of non …

Evidence for twelve sites with gas bubble emissions causing hydroacoustic anomalies in 18
kHz echosounder records ('flares') was obtained at the convergent Makran continental …

Geochemical data for hydrate gases acquired from the GMGS3 and GMGS4 gas hydrate
drilling expeditions conducted by the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey (GMGS) are …

As a result of extensive hydrocarbon exploration, the North Sea hosts several thousand
abandoned wells; many believed to be leaking methane. However, how much of this …