China on Sunday completed the trial exploration of flammable ice in the South China Sea, which extracted more than 300,000 cubic meters after a 60 day non-stop mining operation.

 

上周日，中国在南海完成可燃冰的试验性开采，经过60天的无间断开采，其产量已超30万立方米。

 

Starting from May 10, the mining operation in waters about 320 kilometers to the southeast of Zhuhai city, Guangdong Province, has beaten previous expectations and set world records in both the length and total amount of extraction, according to the China Geological Survey Bureau.

 

The trial exploration saw an average daily extraction of more than 5,000 cubic meters of high purity gas, with the highest daily output at 35,000 cubic meters.

 

Meanwhile, 6.47 million sets of experimental data were recorded.

 

China declared its first success in collecting samples of flammable ice in the South China Sea on May 18. The ice usually exists in seabed or tundra¹ areas with the strong pressure and the low temperature necessary for stability. 

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