B12B
Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: Characterization, Modeling, and Implications on Geohazard and Gas Production I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2002 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Yongkoo Seol, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States, Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Marcelo J Sanchez, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Chairs:  Yongkoo Seol, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States and Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
10:20
New Methods for Gas Hydrate Energy and Climate Studies (Invited) (59459)
Carolyn D Ruppel1, John Pohlman2, William F Waite1, Andrew G Hunt3, Laura A. Stern4 and Michael Casso2, (1)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
10:35
Sand migration modeling in hydrate-bearing sediments (Invited) (58412)
Shun Uchida, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, Assaf Klar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Haifa, Israel and Koji Yamamoto, JOGMEC, Chiba-shi, Japan
10:50
Hydro-geomechanical behaviour of gas-hydrate bearing soils during gas production through depressurization and CO2 injection (Invited) (60775)
Christian Deusner, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
11:05
Impacts of Hydrate Distribution on the Hydro-Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments (Invited) (58410)
Sheng Dai, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
11:20
Mechanical and dissociation properties of methane hydrate bearing sands with various fines (85787)
Masayuki Hyodo, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
11:35
Numerical simulation of sealing effect of gas hydrate for CO2 leakage in marine sediment (76844)
Toru Sato, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
11:50
Relative permeability of hydrate-bearing sediments from percolation theory and critical path analysis: theoretical and experimental results (69565)
Hugh Daigle, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and Mary Anna Rice, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
12:05
P-Wave and S-Wave Velocity Structure of Submarine Landslide Associated With Gas Hydrate Layer on Frontal Ridge of Northern Cascadia Margin (58857)
Tao He1, Hailong Lu1, Subbarao Yelisetti2 and George Spence2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
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