Chairs: Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Co-conveners: Marcelo Sanchez, Texas A & M University, Civil Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Science Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Yongkoo Seol, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Marcelo J Sanchez, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
A New Critical State Model for Geomechanical Behavior of Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sands
Jeen-Shang Lin1, Pengju Xing1, Jonny Rutqvist2, Yongkoo Seol3 and Jeong-Hoon Choi3, (1)University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
Instrumented Pressure Testing Chamber (IPTC) Characterization of Methane Gas Hydrate-Bearing Pressure Cores Collected from the Methane Production Test Site in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Offshore Japan
William F Waite1, J Carlos Santamarina2, Sheng Dai3, William J Winters1, Jun Yoneda4, Yoshihiro Konno4, Jiro Nagao5, Kiyofumi Suzuki6, Tetsuya Fujii6, David H Mason1 and Emile Bergeron1, (1)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan, (6)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Simultaneous measurement for thermal conductivity, diffusivity, and specific heat of methane hydrate bearing sediments recovered from Nankai-Trough wells
Michihiro Muraoka1, Michika Ohtake1, Naoko Susuki1, Yoshitaka Yamamoto1, Kiyohumi Suzuki2 and Tomoya Tsuji3, (1)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)JOGMEC Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan, (3)College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Izumicho, Narashino, Japan, Narashino, Japan
Molecular and isotopic compositions of hydrate-bound gases collected from the Eastern Nankai Trough
Masato Kida1, Yusuke Jin2, Mizuho Watanabe1, Yoshihiro Konno3, Jun Yoneda3, Kiyofumi Suzuki4, Tetsuya Fujii4 and Jiro Nagao1, (1)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan, (2)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, (3)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)JOGMEC Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan
Coupled THCM Modeling of Gas Hydrate Bearing Sediments
Marcelo J Sanchez1, Xuerui Gai Sr.1, Ajay Shastri1 and J Carlos Santamarina2, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Enviromental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States