Massive volumes of gas are sequestered within gas hydrate in subsurface marine sediments in the Gulf of Mexico. Methane associated with gas hydrate is a potentially important economic resource and a significant reservoir of carbon within the global carbon cycle. Nevertheless, uncertainties remain about the genetic source (e.g., microbial, thermogenic) and possible migration history of natural gas incorporated into hydrate. Previous studies have primarily used the hydrocarbon molecular (CH₄/C₂H₆+) and isotopic (δ¹³C-CH₄, δ²H-CH₄) compositions of natural gas to address these uncertainties. However, hydrocarbon tracers are altered by mixing, oxidation, secondary methanogenesis, or fluid migration, which presents challenges when deciphering the mechanisms responsible for methane formation and accumulation. To evaluate the genetic source of natural gases from Green Canyon Block 955 (GC 955), east of the Sigsbee escarpment, we collected and analyzed samples from the first pressurized hydrate-bearing sediment cores collected from a coarse-grained hydrate reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico. Gas samples were analyzed for hydrocarbon gas (C₁–C₅), major gas (e.g., N₂, CO₂), and noble gas (He-Xe) abundance and isotopic (e.g., δ¹³C-CH₄, δ²H-CH₄, δ¹³C-CO₂, δ¹⁵N-N₂, ³He/⁴He, ⁴He/²⁰Ne) compositions. We determined that natural gas in hydrates from this location are predominantly of primary microbial origin (conservatively at least 76%) and are formed by the hydrogenotrophic (CO₂ reduction) methanogenesis pathway. We also note increased thermogenic proportions (∼6%) in a hydrate-bearing layer below the main hydrate-bearing interval (separated by a 5-m water-bearing layer). Our results suggest that microbial methane may be abundant below the base of gas hydrate stability at GC 955.