WASHINGTON – An international team of experts from Japan, the United States, Canada, Germany and India will soon begin the world’s first experiment to extract natural gas from the vast deposits of frozen methane lying deep underground, project sources said Friday.
Participants in the project will conduct the experiment between early December and March in the Mallik district of Canada’s Northwest Territories, near the Arctic Ocean.
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