Tag: hydrates

Research from the University of Texas in Austin has shown that injecting air and carbon dioxide into methane ice deposits buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could have the potential to unlock natural gas energy resources, while also trapping the carbon dioxide underground.The study was published in the journal Water Resources Research, which used computer models to simulate what would happen when mixtures of carbon dioxide and air were injected into deposits of methane hydrate, a water-rich, almost ice-like chemical compound that forms in high-pressure and low-temperature environments, like the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic circle.