Engineers used a depressurisation method that turns methane hydrate into methane gas.

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Norris and his engineers have tested and patented every method they could think of to make it work.

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Simply because I fear that the Google method of management works for engineers being managed by engineers.

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It has thousands of engineers trained in one single, manageable, scaled innovation method.

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Perhaps this new method of (legally) copying what their foreign partners have already done will impart to SOE engineers some of those same skills.

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