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Funding Acknowledgements

The first author received a University of Western Australia SIRF scholarship and an Australia-China Natural Gas Technology Partnership Fund PhD top-up scholarship during which time the work described in this paper was performed. The second author acknowledges the funding support from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (DP11010163). The third author is the recipient of an ARC Laureate Fellowship (FL130100059) and holds the Chair of Offshore Foundations from Lloyd's Register Foundation (LRF). LRF a UK registered charity and sole shareholder of Lloyd's Register Group Ltd, invests in science, engineering and technology for public benefit, worldwide. He gratefully acknowledges this support.