Natural Gas Hydrate as a Storage Mechanism for Safe, Sustainable and Economical Production from Offshore Petroleum Reserves

[...]a special container and processing system must be developed in order to enable the production at the bottom of the ocean and transport to the surface and then to shore. Because the container will increase in volume as it is filled, it will not need to sustain the external load associated with the ocean depth. [...]the resulting container must be resilient to corrosion in the marine environment. [...]the container must have an approximate matched density to water, resulting in neutral buoyancy for the fabricated vessel, which is essential for maneuverability.