The trade ministry said Monday it has begun preparations for a second production test to extract methane gas from methane hydrate deposits off Japan’s central coast.
The test is the first since Japan achieved the world’s first extraction of gas in 2013 from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen gas known as “flammable ice.”
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