Japan obtained about 120,000m3 of gas from the

A week ago, Japan became the first country to exploit natural gas from methane hydrate (burning ice) on the sea floor.

>>>Japan exploits natural gas from burnt ice

Methane Hydrate contains methane and water and is thought to be shaped like gas water. This is considered a new generation fuel source.

Ice Fire

After a week of trial exploitation, Japan obtained about 120,000 cubic meters of natural gas from 'burning ice'. This amount of gas has exceeded many times the trial production of about 13,000 cubic meters of gas on land in Canada that the Japanese and Canadian governments participated in for six days in 2008.

Japan 's National Oil and Gas Group (JOGMEC) is the world's first gas exploration project, about 80km south of the coast of Atsumi Peninsula in central Japan.

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) on March 18 said it had finished a trial phase a week earlier than originally planned due to problems in pumping and weather equipment. bad.

Minister METI Toshimitsu Motegi said that the trial production showed 'enough results' in a week and succeeded in collecting data.