People’s Daily: The total reserve of fuel ice (natural gas hydrate) on the northern continental slope of the South China Sea has finally been verified. It reaches an equivalent of 18.5 billion tons of oil, which equals six times the verified geological reserve of oil and gas in the deep waters of the South China Sea, said an official recently. Yang Shengxiong, chief engineer of Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, said this at a recent academic seminar on “Marine Geology, Mineral Resources and …