Numerical simulation of methane gas production from a permeable-overburden gas hydrate reservoir on the Hikurangi Margin east of New Zealand.


Paul Adewale Oluwunmi1, Ingo Andreas Pecher1, Rosalind Archer1, Matthew T Reagan2, George J Moridis3, Gareth James Crutchley4, Lucy C Stewart5, David Bowden6 and Ashley Alun Rowden6, (1)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Texas A&M University, Berkeley/College Station, United States, (4)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (5)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (6)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand