Geomechanical issues in the exploitation of natural gas hydrate

C Yan, X Ren, Y Cheng, B Song, Y Li, W Tian - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
As a clean fossil fuel with great reserves, natural gas hydrate (NGH) is widely regarded as
an important future alternative energy source. NGH is widely distributed in onshore tundra …

Review of gas hydrate dissociation kinetic models for energy recovery

Z Yin, ZR Chong, HK Tan, P Linga - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, a comprehensive review of gas hydrate dissociation kinetic models and hydrate
reservoir simulators are provided. The main features of the dissociation kinetic models are …

An assessment of methane gas production from natural gas hydrates: Challenges, technology and market outlook

R Shaibu, C Sambo, B Guo… - Advances in Geo-Energy …, 2021 - ager.yandypress.com
Natural gas hydrates are enormous energy resources occurring in the permafrost and under
deep ocean sediments. However, the commercial or sustained production of this resource …

[HTML][HTML] Natural gas hydrates–Insights into a paradigm-shifting energy resource

SM Gajanayake, RP Gamage, XS Li, H Huppert - Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Experts have identified natural gas hydrates, which are found in the shallow seabed and
beneath permafrost regions, as an energy source (mostly methane) that is greener than …

Analysis of depressurization mode on gas recovery from methane hydrate deposits and the concomitant ice generation

B Wang, Z Fan, P Wang, Y Liu, J Zhao, Y Song - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural gas hydrates have garnered worldwide attention as an important potential non-
conventional fossil fuel resource. When extracting natural gas from gas hydrate deposits via …

Sand-rich gas hydrate and shallow gas systems in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea

J Ren, C Cheng, P Xiong, Z Kuang, J Liang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2019, the sand-rich gas hydrate and shallow gas (GHSG) reservoirs have been drilled in
the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea. As a conventional energy resource …

India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 summary of scientific results: Numerical simulation of reservoir response to depressurization

R Boswell, E Myshakin, G Moridis, Y Konno… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 (NGHP-02) discovered gas
hydrate at high saturation in sand reservoirs at several sites in the deepwater Bay of Bengal …

Progress in global gas hydrate development and production as a new energy resource

L Liu, Z Sun, L Zhang, N Wu, Q Yichao… - Acta Geologica …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural gas hydrates have been hailed as a new and promising unconventional alternative
energy, especially as fossil fuels approach depletion, energy consumption soars, and fossil …

Hydraulic fracturing in a penny-shaped crack. Part II: Testing the frackability of methane hydrate-bearing sand

JL Too, A Cheng, BC Khoo, A Palmer… - Journal of natural gas …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work examines the susceptibility of methane hydrate in sand to fracture. The task is
made difficult because of two challenges:(1) the means to conduct hydraulic fracturing …

Timescales and processes of methane hydrate formation and breakdown, with application to geologic systems

CD Ruppel, WF Waite - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate is an ice‐like form of water and low molecular weight gas stable at
temperatures of roughly− 10° C to 25° C and pressures of~ 3 to 30 MPa in geologic systems …