OS23D:
Gas Hydrate–Bearing Sediments: Recent Advances in Characterization, Experiments, and Modeling Posters


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Session ID#: 45398

Session Description:
Natural gas hydrates are widely distributed in permafrost and marine sediments at high pressures and low temperatures. Gas hydrates are a potential energy resource, and may play a role in Earth’s climate and natural hazards. Through recent technical advances, hydrate-bearing sediments can be sampled while better maintaining in situ hydrate and sediment properties; yet many geophysical, geochemical, hydrological, geomechanical and thermal properties remain insufficiently understood. Recent advances in experimental and numerical techniques investigating both natural and synthetic samples have broadened our vision and improved our understanding of the thermal, hydrologic, mechanical, chemical and microbiological behaviors of gas hydrate-bearing sediments. For this session, we encourage contributions from field sampling, in situ tests, laboratory and numerical studies providing new perspectives on (1) gas hydrate formation and dissociation in sediments, (2) the accompanied evolution of the physical properties of the sediments, and (3) the role of sediment-hosted gas hydrate in biogeochemical cycles.
Primary Convener:  Stephen C Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Prof. Fu Xiaojing (Ruby), Caltech, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Pasadena, United States, Yi Fang, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Junbong Jang, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen C Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Stephen C Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Junbong Jang, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stephen C Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

3004 Gas and hydrate systems [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Nonequilibrium hydrate growth on an expanding gas-liquid interface: insights from Xenon-water experiments and phase-field modeling (351231)
Prof. Fu Xiaojing (Ruby)1, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez2,3, William F Waite4, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso5,6, James W Carey2 and Ruben Juanes7, (1)Caltech, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Pasadena, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Modeling Hydrate Formation and Distribution in Porous Media by Interphase Force, Growth Kinetics and Thermodynamic Equilibrium: Implications for Permeability Prediction (428522)
Han Dongyan, DUT Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China and Dayong Wang, Dalian University of Technology, School of Energy & Power Engineering, Dalian, China
Pore-scale CH4-C2H6 hydrate formation and dissociation under relevant pressure-temperature conditions of natural reservoirs (438215)
Jiachao Liu1, Tiannong Dong2, Kristopher Darnell3, Jesse Tao Gu4, Peter J Polito1, Joshua O'Connell5, Peter B Flemings6 and Jung-Fu Lin7, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Harvard, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (6)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (7)The University of Texas, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Mapping the methane hydrate phase boundary using a sapphire cell (417474)
Henry Jacob Waldstreicher, George Washington High School, Denver, CO, United States; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Stephen C Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Peter J Polito, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Laboratory investigation of borehole resistivity imaging for monitoring gas hydrate recovery (438464)
Changchun Zou1, Cheng Peng1, Yukun Miao1, Qiang Chen2 and Changling Liu2, (1)China University of Geosciences(Beijing), Beijing, China, (2)Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao, China
A new method for predicting permeability of porous media based on fractal structure parameters (373625)
Jianchao Cai, Yuxuan Xia, Wei Wei and Peiqiang Zhao, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
Three Phase Relative Permeability of Hydrate Bearing Sediments (441593)
Zach Murphy, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, David Fukuyama, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and David A DiCarlo, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States
Geophysical and mechanical properties of methane hydrate-bearing unconsolidated sediments: laboratory measurements with new designed experimental apparatus (350775)
Zhiqiang Yang1, Tao He1 and Hailong Lu2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing International Center for Gas Hydrate, Peking University, Beijing, China
Volume change in fine-grained sediments due to pore water salinity changes: gas hydrate-bearing sediments and pore water freshening during gas hydrate dissociation (348746)
Junbong Jang, Integrated Statistics Inc., contracted to U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Shuang Cindy Cao, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States; Oklahoma State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States, Lee-Gray Boze, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jongwon Jung, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea, Republic of (South); Louisiana State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and William F Waite, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Permeability, compression behavior, and lateral stress ratio of hydrate-bearing siltstone from UT-GOM2-1 pressure core (GC 955—northern Gulf of Mexico): Initial Results (382284)
Yi Fang, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Steve Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geoscience, Austin, TX, United States, Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Joshua O'Connell, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Peter J Polito, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Porosity, permeability, and grain size of sediment cores from gas-hydrate-bearing sites and their implication for overpressure in shallow formations: Results from NGHP-02, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India (384473)
Wataru Tanikawa1,2, Takehiro Hirose2, Yohei Hamada2, Lallan P. Gupta3, Naokazu Ahagon4, Yuka Masaki5, Natsue Abe6, Hung-Yu Wu7, Takamitsu Sugihara8, Shun Nomura9, Weiren Lin10, Masataka Kinoshita11, Yuzuru Yamamoto12 and Yasuhiro Yamada13, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Nankoku, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Nankoku, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC, Nankoku, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC, KCC, Nankoku, Japan, (5)IFREE/JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (6)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (7)Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (8)Marion-Kanazawa 202, Yokohama, Japan, (9)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (10)Kyoto University, Department of Urban Management, Kyoto, Japan, (11)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (12)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (13)Kyushu University, Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan
Pressure Coring Operation at the Eastern Nankai Trough after the Second Offshore Gas Production Test (427850)
Itoyuki Nishioka, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Yoshihiro Nakatsuka, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan and Koji Yamamoto, JOGMEC, Chiba-shi, Japan
Lithological features analyzed by Pressure Core and Wireline Logging Data of the 2nd Offshore Gas Production Test Site, NE-Nankai Trough, Japan (425851)
Kiyofumi Suzuki1, Than Tin Aung2, Tetsuya Fujii2, Makoto Tanaka1, Machiko Tamaki3, Yuhei Komatsu3 and Akira Fujimoto4, (1)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Tokyo, Japan, (3)Japan Oil Engineering Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Chiba, Japan
High saturation of methane hydrate in a coarse-grained reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico from quantitative depressurization of pressure cores (374411)
Stephen C Phillips1, Peter B Flemings2, Melanie E Holland3, Peter J Schultheiss3, Ethan G Petrou4, William F Waite5, Junbong Jang6, Helen Hammon4, Peter J Polito7 and UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (3)GEOTEK Ltd, Daventry, United Kingdom, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Modeling study on geochemical responses to the formation of natural gas hydrate in the submarine sediments (382767)
Hailong Tian1, Tianfu Xu Ph.D1 and Huixing Zhu2, (1)Key Laboratory of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, groundwater science and engineering, ChangChun, China, (2)Jilin University, Jilin, China
Persistent bottom water suboxic conditions caused by methane release events—Evidence from the South China Sea (402906)
Niu Li, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Dong Feng, Shanghai Ocean University, Lingang, China, Hongbin Wang, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China and Duofu Chen, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
The Effects of X-ray CT Scanning on Microbial Communities in Sediment Cores (441524)
Erica Monroe Ewton1, Frederick S Colwell2, Scott Klasek3, Erin K Peck, PhD4 and Jason Weist1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States
Occurrences of benthic foraminiferal fossil Rutherfordoides sp. in gas hydrate bearing areas of the Japan Sea (423456)
Takeshi Oi, Meiji University, Gas Hydrate Laboratory, Kawasaki, Japan, Takaya Shimono, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, Yutaka Yanagimoto, Meiji University, Gas Hydrate Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, Ryo Matsumoto, Meiji University, Gas Hydrate Research Laboratory, Ochanomizu, Japan, Fumio Akiba, Diatom Mini lab., Hanno, Japan, Naoto Ishida, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, Hideki Numanami, Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo, Japan and Sumito Morita, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Permanent in-situ monitoring of gas hydrates using Ocean Networks Canada's cabled NEPTUNE seafloor observatory (360336)
Martin Scherwath1, Kate Moran2, Michael Riedel3, Laurenz Thomsen4, Miriam Roemer5, Damianos Chatzievangelou4, Tania Lado Insua2, Joseph James Farrugia2 and Martin Heesemann1, (1)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)Marum and University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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