A variety of applications have emerged for gas hydrates in industrial processes. However, to implement hydrate technologies, a fundamental understanding of their formation is required. This thesis investigates gas hydrate growth using low-dosage kinetic promoters as well as thermodynamic promoters. Two model surfactants are investigated to study the effect of kinetic promoters. Sodium dodecyl sulphate is used as a model anionic conventional surfactant and DOWFAX 8390 is used as a model anionic gemini surfactant. Results from this study show that surfactants do not significantly affect thermodynamic equilibrium and hydrate former solubility in methane hydrate systems. The promotion effect of both surfactants is studied over a range of concentrations and shows a sigmoid trend. Surfactants are found to significantly increase the gas hydrate former mole fraction during hydrate growth and are estimated to account for half of the increase in growth rate. The remainder of the growth increase is attributed to changes in the hydrate particle area. Thermodynamic promoters are investigated using semi-clathrate systems consisting of tetra-n-butylammonium bromide and water with a guest gas of either carbon dioxide or methane. Equilibrium temperature, pressure and solubility of all components are evaluated for these systems at hydrate-liquid-vapour equilibrium. These data are then used to develop and apply a kinetic model to estimate the intrinsic reaction rate constant of the carbon dioxide semi-clathrate system.