{"id":87373,"date":"2020-09-15T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2020-09-15T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:02:35","slug":"krishna-godavarikg-basin-an-excellent-source-of-fuel-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/krishna-godavarikg-basin-an-excellent-source-of-fuel-methane\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishna-Godavari(KG) basin, an excellent source of fuel methane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>According to a study by the Pune-based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) of the Science &amp; Technology Ministry, Krishna-Godavari(KG) basin holds a massive reserve of methane hydrate and a rich source of cleaner natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Methane: <\/strong>It is a clean and economical fuel and is a major constituent of natural gas.Compared to other hydrocarbon fuels, methane produces less carbon dioxide for each unit of heat released.<\/li><li><strong>Methane Hydrate: <\/strong>It is a solid clathrate compound in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water forming a solid similar to ice.<\/li><li><strong>How Methane Hydrates are formed? <\/strong>It is formed when hydrogen bonded water and methane gas come into contact at high pressures and low temperatures in oceans.<\/li><li><strong>Significance of Methane Hydrate: <\/strong>It is estimated that one cubic meter of methane hydrate contains 160-180 cubic meters of methane.Hence, even the lowest estimate of methane present in the methane hydrates in the KG Basin is twice that of all fossil fuel reserves available worldwide.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to a study by the Pune-based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) of the Science &amp; Technology Ministry, Krishna-Godavari(KG) basin holds a massive reserve of methane hydrate and a rich source of cleaner natural gas. Facts: Methane: It is a clean and economical fuel and is a major constituent of natural gas.Compared to other hydrocarbon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/krishna-godavarikg-basin-an-excellent-source-of-fuel-methane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Krishna-Godavari(KG) basin, an excellent source of fuel methane<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5130,5131],"class_list":["post-87373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-krishna-godavarikg-basin","tag-methane-hydrate","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704815557},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}