It doesn't take Mr Tibble very long to find the source: "A lot of the heat down here is not just from the boiler, I would say 60-70% of the heat is from this, " he says, pointing at unclad pipes carrying hot water from the boiler.
The authors suggest that a rapidly evolving technical to manage hydrates is to heat the pipes that carry the hydrocarbons to the surface, either through electric heaters or by circulating hot water around the outside of the pipe.