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- UTIG Students Take Top 2022 Departmental Awards
Congratulations Abby Varona (MSc), Kevin Meazell (PhD), and Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez (PhD) who took three of the top nine student research awards at the UT Jackson… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media - Making Methane from Microbes: UTIG and UT Knoxville Hunt for Biological Source of Fiery Ice
Methane hydrate is a type of icy natural gas that accumulates in the subsurface around the Earth’s continental margins. Because methane is a hydrocarbon, the… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media - UT Austin Studies Mysterious Substance that Could Transform the Future of Energy
In 2017, UT Austin geoscientists led the first U.S. university-based expedition to the Gulf of Mexico in search of methane hydrates. Today, they are at… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media - Pressure Coring Technology One Step Closer to Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Test
By Constantino Panagopulos It’s mid-March on the Texas prairie outside the city of Cameron. Peter Flemings, a professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, watches… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media - Computer Model Solves Mystery of How Gas Bubbles Build Big Methane Hydrate Deposits
New research from The University of Texas at Austin has explained an important mystery about natural gas hydrate formations and, in doing so, advanced scientists’… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media - Where Do Natural Gas Hydrates Come from and Why Should We Care?A new generation of models, laboratory, and field studies is helping scientists answer important questions about the role of methane hydrates in the carbon cycle… Continue Reading GOM²: News & Media
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 UT Geologists Extract Potential Natural Gas Source From the Ocean Floor STORY — October 23, 2017. Methane hydrate, the compound recovered by the scientists, could provide power to future generations. |  Jackson School of Geosciences leads research mission STORY — October 19, 2017. Researchers are one step closer to understanding the properties of frozen methane hydrate, which is a potential future energy resource, with the help of recently obtained samples. |  On a Rare Expedition, UT Geoscientists Recover a Possible Energy Resource STORY — September 1, 2017. The research team encounters constant work during their expedition in the Gulf of Mexico to extract methane hydrates. |
 Can ‘Fire Ice’ Replace Shale? STORY — June 28, 2017. The current state of methane hydrates development around the world is in studies, resource assessment, and production tests. |  Unlocking the potential of Methane Hydrate STORY — October 14, 2016. Buried deep beneath the world’s oceans and Arctic permafrost is a mysterious substance that holds the promise of an enormous amount of energy. |  Powering the Future: Why UT is The Energy University STORY — April 14, 2015. Energy is such a constant presence in our lives, we often take it for granted. Like the clean water that runs from our taps, we just expect energy to be cheap and ever-present, whether it's the electricity that charges our phones, the natural gas that heats our houses or the oil that makes our cars run. |
 Jackson School to Lead $58 Million Effort to Study Potential New Energy Source PRESS RELEASE — October 22, 2014. A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze deposits of frozen methane under the Gulf of Mexico that hold enormous potential to increase the world’s energy supply. |  UT Gets Money to Study New Energy Source in Gulf STORY — October 22, 2014. Energy Reporter Jennifer A. Dlouhy of the Houston Chronicle introduces the University of Texas’ upcoming work in the Gulf of Mexico. |  UT-led Team Gets $58 Million to Study Gulf Methane Deposits STORY — October 22, 2014. “The award for the four-year project is among the largest research grants UT has ever received and includes $41.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy,” writes Ralph K.M. Haurwitz of the Austin American-Statesman. |
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 Hydrogeology student, Addison Savage, shows us what goes on at the UT Pressure Core Center VIDEO — March 2020. Addison Savage, is a senior year hydrogeology student at the Jackson School of Geosciences. As part of her research program, she works at the UT Pressure Core Center (UTPCC) where she investigates the properties of natural methane hydrates. |  UTIG Methane Hydrates VIDEO — July 2018. UT Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) has partnered with DOE and USGS to explore next-gen energy solutions. UTIG is leading an effort to develop and test a technology called pressure coring, which enables scientists to recover samples of methane hydrate from deep within the earth while preserving the high in-situ pressures found at depth. |  Drilling gas hydrate in the Gulf of Mexico VIDEO — December 2017. A combined computer visualization and GoPro videos to make a story about research in the Gulf of Mexico on methane hydrates. |
 Fueling the Future: The Search for Methane Hydrate (short version) VIDEO — October 2017. In May 2017 a group of researchers led by the UT Jackson School of Geosciences and UTIG took to the Gulf of Mexico to retrieve samples of methane hydrate, a potential future fuel source. This short video is a summary of a full video report found on this page. |  Fueling the Future: The Search for Methane Hydrate (full version) VIDEO — October 2017. In May 2017 a group of researchers led by the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences and UTIG took to the Gulf of Mexico to retrieve samples of methane hydrate, a potential future fuel source, from under the Gulf floor. |  Episode 159: Dr. Peter B. Flemings VIDEO — November 2014. Project lead Peter B. Flemings is interviewed on The EnergyMakers Show. |
 Methane Hydrate: Fire, Ice, & a Huge Quantity of Potential Energy VIDEO — October 22, 2014. Found near the ocean floor and beneath Arctic permafrost, methane hydrate is a mysterious icy substance that burns when lit and holds vast amounts of potential energy. |