Are there commercial deposits of methane hydrates in ocean sediments?

Energy Exploration and Exploitation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 339-347

  Hovland, Martin ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

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EID: 0002412787     PISSN: 01445987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0144598001492166     Document Type: Article

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