Terrebonne Basin Deepwater Hydrate Coring
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UT-GOM2-2 Preliminary Report Terrebonne Basin Northern Gulf of Mexico

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  • 1. ROR icon The University of Texas at Austin
  • 2. ROR icon United States Geological Survey
  • 3. ROR icon The Ohio State University
  • 4. ROR icon University of Washington
  • 5. ROR icon Oregon State University
  • 6. ROR icon University of New Hampshire
  • 7. ExxonMobil, retired
  • 8. ROR icon Colorado School of Mines
  • 9. ROR icon Tufts University
  • 10. ROR icon Geotek (United Kingdom)
  • 11. Geotek Coring Inc.
  • 12. ROR icon Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
  • 13. Pettigrew Engineering
  • 14. TR Consulting

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In the summer and fall of 2023, the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Hydrate Coring Expedition (UT-GOM2-2) drilled, cored, made downhole measurements, and analyzed samples from the seafloor to the base of the gas hydrate stability zone in one location (Site H, WR313) in the Terrebonne basin, deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This is the UT-GOM2-2 Preliminary Report.

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