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Carbon is subducted with the ocean beds.
It is heated with other minerals and forms aluminum carbide.
The carbide is exposed to water, and decomposes into aluminum hydroxide and methane.
The methane seeps up to and out vents where it comes into contact with more water, cold and under pressure, and forms clathrates.
The methane saturates the area with clathrates, and the excess bubbles randomly out of the mud over large areas.
Bottom line, the methane that is bubbling up, is bubbling up past the clathrates, not from the clathrates.
Have you read about Dunning Kruger? You should take interest in that.
This occurs in areas far from subduction zones.
But oil/gas deposit are only found in sedimentary sources.