Gas hydrates history
Gas hydrates were discovered by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810 in his laboratory. While other chemists of the day experimented with hydrates of methane, ethane and nitric oxide, hydrates did not gain importance until the 1930s when they were found to be impeding the flow inside natural gas transmission lines. In the 1940s, Russian scientists theorized the existence of gas hydrates in nature and their potential as energy sources, and in the 1960s, discovered methane hydrates in permafrost. Since that time, scientists have been developing the technology required to commercially produce large hydrate deposits around the world.