OS54A:
Geological and Geophysical Characterization of Marine Gas Hydrate Reservoirs I


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Session ID#: 57489

Session Description:
Marine gas hydrates house 15-50% of Earth€'s mobile carbon and represent an important potential hydrocarbon resource. Although, geophysical evidence suggests widespread presence of gas hydrates in deep marine sediments, accumulations with high gas hydrate saturation are thought to be much more restricted in their occurrence, and may require a relatively coarse (or clay free) reservoir. Factors controlling saturation of gas hydrate hosted in marine sediments are not adequately understood. Recent geophysical studies, targeted drilling, sampling, and production tests greatly increased the range of data available on clastic reservoirs with high gas hydrate saturation. For this session, we encourage contributions from studies related to characterization of gas hydrate bearing marine reservoirs, including geophysical-, well log-based and sample-based studies as well as modeling, that bring new insights in gas hydrate systems, and potentially lead to better quantification of gas hydrate resources in marine reservoirs.
Primary Convener:  Manasij Santra, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Ann Cook, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Alexey Portnov, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States and Stefan Bünz, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Manasij Santra, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Manasij Santra, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Ann Cook, OSU Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, Alexey Portnov, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States and Stefan Bünz, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
OSPA Liaison:  Manasij Santra, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

1051 Sedimentary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3004 Gas and hydrate systems [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3036 Ocean drilling [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Geological and glaciological control on an Arctic Ocean gas hydrate reservoir. (407495)
Pavel Serov, The Arctic University of Norway, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Tromsø, Norway, Malin Waage, CAGE-Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment, and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, National Center for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India, Henry Patton, iC3: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Alexey Portnov, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, Jurgen Mienert, CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø, Department of Geology, Tromsø, Norway, Stefan Bünz, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deptartment of Geoscience, Tromsø, Norway and Alun Hubbard, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
The Characterization of Hydrate Provinces in Europe: a Review of Available Evidence (Invited) (349983)
Timothy A Minshull, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Hector Marin-Moreno, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Peter Betlem, University Centre in Svalbard, Department of Arctic Geology, Longyearbyen, Norway, Joerg Bialas, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Stefan Bünz, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway, Alejandra L. Cameselle, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, Gunay Cifci, Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, Michela Giustiniani, OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Trieste, Italy, John R Hopper, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, Ricardo Leon, Instituto Geologico Minero Espana, Madrid, Spain, Vitor Magalhaes, Portuguese Oceanic and Atmospheric Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, Tove Nielsen, The National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København, Denmark, Nick O'Neill, SLR Consulting Ltd, Dublin, Ireland, Ilia Ostrovsky, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Migdal, Israel, Andreia Aletia Plaza-Faverola, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Daniel Rey, University of Vigo, Marine Geosciences, Vigo, Spain, Srikumar Roy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Katrin Schwalenberg, BGR, Hannover, Germany, Kim Senger, University Center on Svalbard, Department of Arctic Geology, Longyearbyen, Norway, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, National Center for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India and Atanas Vasiliev, Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria
Complex BSR patterns related to gas composition, migrating fluids, and canyon dynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea (385765)
Xiujuan Wang, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Yiqun Guo, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guang Zhou, China and Carolyn D Ruppel, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States
New Seismic Constraints on the Distribution of Methane Hydrate on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Margin (376091)
Carolyn D Ruppel1, Nathaniel C Miller2, Wayne E. Baldwin3, David S. Foster2, Matthew Frye4, William W Shedd5 and Stephen Palmes6, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)USGS, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)USGS, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Herndon, Sterling, United States, (5)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, New Orleans, United States, (6)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, VA, United States
Using velocity pull up to identify and quantify gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico: Are Mississippi Fan turbidites frozen? (Invited) (349023)
Andrew Stuart Madof, Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, United States
Marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic Gas Hydrate Studies in the Danube Delta, Western Black Sea (390162)
Katrin Schwalenberg1, Romina Antonia Sarah Gehrmann2, Dennis Rippe3, Shuangmin Duan4, Sebastian Hölz4, Anke Dannowski4, Timo Zander4, Joerg Bialas4, Michael Riedel4, Gerhard Bohrmann5 and Matthias Haeckel4, (1)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Quantifying Methane Hydrate in the Gulf of Mexico Using Controlled Source Electromagnetic Methods. (420339)
Peter Kannberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Steven Constable, University of California San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States

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