• Methane Pioneer was the first oceangoing liquified natural gas tanker in the world. Built in 1945 as a cargo ship named Marline Hitch, the vessel was...
    6 KB (395 words) - 22:57, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Methane Princess
    renamed Conch International Methane. Following the successful proving of the technological and commercial viability by Methane Pioneer, two identical purpose-designed...
    7 KB (584 words) - 08:50, 14 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for LNG carrier
    The first oceangoing liquified natural gas tanker in the world was Methane Pioneer, which entered service in 1959 with a carrying capacity of 5,500 cubic...
    36 KB (4,621 words) - 22:34, 26 August 2024
  • launches pioneering methane-tracking satellite to orbit". Space.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024. "About MethaneSAT"...
    7 KB (567 words) - 08:48, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Titan (moon)
    spectroscopic technique to detect an atmosphere of methane. The first probe to visit the Saturnian system was Pioneer 11 in 1979, which revealed that Titan was...
    124 KB (12,153 words) - 15:52, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine LNG Engine
    gas (BOG). LNG shipping first became a possibility in 1959 when the Methane Pioneer, a converted WWII freighter safely transported Liquefied Natural Gas...
    13 KB (1,793 words) - 22:06, 15 July 2024
  • safely, efficiently and economically over long distances by sea. The Methane Pioneer shipped a consignment of LNG from Lake Charles, Louisiana, US, to a...
    36 KB (3,938 words) - 12:15, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Canvey Island
    Louisiana, by a specially modified liberty ship Normarti renamed the Methane Pioneer. The success of seven further deliveries over the following 14 months...
    86 KB (9,962 words) - 18:28, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liquefied natural gas
    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for...
    129 KB (13,187 words) - 21:28, 29 August 2024
  • and has a methane concentration of 90% or greater. By removing CO2 and other impurities from biogas, and increasing the concentration of methane to a level...
    19 KB (2,010 words) - 06:15, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Extraterrestrial atmosphere
    of methane. Venus – the atmosphere may contain a large amount of methane from 60 km (37 mi) to the surface according to data collected by the Pioneer Venus...
    103 KB (11,003 words) - 06:20, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Permian–Triassic extinction event
    ignited by the eruptions; emissions of methane from the gasification of methane clathrates; emissions of methane by novel methanogenic microorganisms nourished...
    359 KB (38,640 words) - 15:44, 28 August 2024
  • geometry with C3v symmetry. The chloroform molecule can be viewed as a methane molecule with three hydrogen atoms replaced with three chlorine atoms,...
    59 KB (5,630 words) - 02:33, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neptune
    nitrogen, but contains a higher proportion of ices such as water, ammonia and methane. Similar to Uranus, its interior is primarily composed of ices and rock;...
    147 KB (14,388 words) - 02:49, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brown dwarf
    Brown dwarf (redirect from Methane dwarf)
    is tilted towards methane, and methane predominates at the T/Y-boundary. However, vertical mixing of the atmosphere can cause methane to sink into lower...
    187 KB (20,361 words) - 19:50, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fracking
    the United States a major crude oil exporter as of 2019, but leakage of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, has dramatically increased. Increased oil and...
    153 KB (15,859 words) - 19:54, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Life on Titan
    compounds. On the surface there are small and large bodies of both liquid methane and ethane, and it is likely that there is a layer of liquid water under...
    44 KB (4,514 words) - 23:39, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Climate change
    October 2023. Global Methane Initiative (2020). Global Methane Emissions and Mitigation Opportunities (PDF) (Report). Global Methane Initiative. Hallegatte...
    313 KB (27,923 words) - 06:42, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pluto
    Pluto (redirect from Pioneer Terra)
    calculated Pluto's albedo for the first time, finding that it matched that for methane ice; this meant Pluto had to be exceptionally luminous for its size and...
    164 KB (14,232 words) - 06:13, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mars Orbiter Mission
    (1.64 to 1.66 μm) channels. The first one is a methane channel which measures the absorption by methane and second one is a no absorption channel (reference...
    104 KB (8,981 words) - 11:18, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alessandro Volta
    chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the...
    25 KB (2,517 words) - 14:12, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uranus
    cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles...
    158 KB (15,606 words) - 09:41, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmosphere of Earth
    gases, among which are other greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Besides argon, other noble gases, neon, helium...
    68 KB (6,944 words) - 12:16, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon dioxide
    injection points. In enhanced coal bed methane recovery, carbon dioxide would be pumped into the coal seam to displace methane, as opposed to current methods...
    112 KB (13,042 words) - 17:55, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jupiter
    and 10% helium by volume. The atmosphere also contains trace amounts of methane, water vapour, ammonia, and silicon-based compounds, as well as fractional...
    176 KB (16,535 words) - 01:53, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ocean Observatories Initiative
    concentrate methane to form massive methane gas and methane hydrate reservoirs. The OOI is composed of two coastal arrays (Coastal Pioneer Array and Coastal...
    45 KB (5,105 words) - 15:06, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wyoming
    River Basin and the Green River Basin. CBM is methane gas extracted from coal bed seams and coalbed methane extraction (CBM) boomed in the mid-1990s.[citation...
    115 KB (9,046 words) - 22:07, 2 September 2024
  • worked on liquefied natural gas (LNG), pioneering the sea transport of LNG. He was aboard the ship, the Methane Pioneer, making the first delivery to Canvey...
    9 KB (767 words) - 23:55, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saturn
    Trace amounts of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, propane, phosphine, and methane have been detected in Saturn's atmosphere. The upper clouds are composed...
    116 KB (10,419 words) - 17:04, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bacteria
    life by converting dissolved compounds, such as hydrogen sulphide and methane, to energy. Bacteria also live in mutualistic, commensal and parasitic...
    143 KB (15,531 words) - 19:34, 31 July 2024