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Originally Posted by Tobra
How soluble in water is methane?
They weren't drilling too deep, they were drilling deep and did everything half assed and in a hurry, leading to fubar wellhead.
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Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, methane ice or "fire ice" is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar to ice.[1] Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of Earth.
Methane clathrate, is the stuff that clogged the concrete structure BP tryed to put over the leaking pipe
the press called it ice but it is a mix of water and methane
Methane forms a structure I hydrate with two dodecahedral (20 vertices, thus 20 water molecules) and six tetradecahedral (24 water molecules) water cages per unit cell.