Gas Hydrates
Vast areas offshore of New Zealand are predicted to contain gas hydrates. New Zealand’s largest known gas hydrate province is located on the Hikurangi Margin, east of the North Island, and a smaller province to the southwest of Fiordland.
Gas produced from hydrates may be an important source of clean energy in the future, securing New Zealand’s supply with indigenous gas for decades to come. GNS Science has led research into New Zealand’s gas hydrates since 1993.
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Current Research
- Gas hydrates as an energy resource
- Pockmarks and their possible link to glacial gas hydrate destabilization
Completed projects
- Gas hydrates and seafloor stability
- Methane release through gas hydrate zones
- Heat flow from the depth of the base of gas hydrate stability
Recent research expeditions
- CHRIMP January-March 2013
- NEMESYS – R/V Sonne, March-April 2011
- NewVents - R/V Sonne SO-191, January-March 2007
- CHARMNZ - R/V Tangaroa TAN0607, June-July 2006
Other links
- Data archive
- Team and collaborators
- Recent publications
- Links and acknowledgements
- Fiery ice workshop 2010
Contact: Ingo Pecher