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New insights into the fate of methane released at the seafloor

by Kristin Beck

Gas bubbles at the sea surface
Gas bubbles at the sea surface close to the crater UK22/4b; German research vessel ALKOR during the ALKOR expedition AL374 in 2006. (Photo: Peter Linke, GEOMAR Kiel)

Joint press release of IOW and GEOMAR about the special issue of the “Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology”, which reports the studies of a crater at the bottom of the North Sea created following a shallow gas blowout in the course of oil exploration in 1990that provides new insights into the fate of methane emissions at the sea floor.

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