China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice'

[rangerrebew]

China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice'

    19 May 2017


China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply.

Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough.

Methane hydrates, also called "flammable ice", hold vast reserves of natural gas.

Many countries including the US and Japan are working on how to tap those reserves, but mining and extracting are extremely difficult.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39971667

[thackney]

... this is the first time the country is able to successfully extract combustible ice from the seabed, in a single, continuous operation on a floating production platform in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea, about 300km southeast of Hong Kong...

http://www.mining.com/china-successfully-mines-flammable-ice-from-the-south-sea/

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