Japan has become the first country in the world to extract natural gas
from frozen methane hydrate successfully off the central coast.Deposits
of methane hydrate, a frozen gas sometimes referred to as “flammable
ice” .State-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation
(JOGMEC) a successful test drilling at an offshore methane hydrate
deposit located about 50 kilometers away from Japan’s main island of
Honshu, in the Nankai Trough.According to the Japanese study, it was
estimated that around 1.1tn cubic metres of methane hydrate existed in
the offshore deposits. This is equal to the gas consumption of Japan in
more than 10 years.
