Oceanic Methane Hydrates
Fundamentals, Technological Innovations, and Sustainability
- 1st Edition - January 10, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Authors: Lin Chen, Sukru Merey
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 5 6 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 5 6 6 - 7
Methane hydrates are still a complicated target for today’s oil and gas offshore engineers, particularly the lack of reliable real field test data or obtaining the most recent… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMethane hydrates are still a complicated target for today’s oil and gas offshore engineers, particularly the lack of reliable real field test data or obtaining the most recent technology available on the feasibility and challenges surrounding the extraction of methane hydrates. Oceanic Methane Hydrates delivers the solid foundation as well as today’s advances and challenges that remain. Starting with the fundamental knowledge on gas hydrates, the authors define the origin, estimations, and known exploration and production methods. Historical and current oil and gas fields and roadmaps containing methane hydrates around the world are also covered to help lay the foundation for the early career engineer. Lab experiments and advancements in numerical reservoir simulations transition the engineer from research to practice with real field-core sampling techniques covered, points on how to choose producible methane hydrate reservoirs, and the importance of emerging technologies. Actual comparable onshore tests from around the world are included to help the engineer gain clarity on field expectations.
Rounding out the reference are emerging technologies in all facets of the business including well completion and monitoring, economics aspects to consider, and environmental challenges, particularly methods to reduce the costs of methane hydrate exploration and production techniques. Rounding out a look at future trends, Oceanic Methane Hydrates covers both the basics and advances needed for today’s engineers to gain the required knowledge needed to tackle this challenging and exciting future energy source.
Rounding out the reference are emerging technologies in all facets of the business including well completion and monitoring, economics aspects to consider, and environmental challenges, particularly methods to reduce the costs of methane hydrate exploration and production techniques. Rounding out a look at future trends, Oceanic Methane Hydrates covers both the basics and advances needed for today’s engineers to gain the required knowledge needed to tackle this challenging and exciting future energy source.
- Understand real data and practice examples covering the newest developments of methane hydrate, from chemical, reservoir modelling and production testing
- Gain worldwide coverage and analysis of the most recent extraction production tests
- Cover the full range of emerging technologies and environmental sustainability including current regulations and policy outlook
Petroleum engineering university and institutional researchers; production engineers; offshore engineers; graduate-level oil and gas engineering students
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword by Dr. Maruyama
- Foreword by Dr. Coffin
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 1. Fundamentals of methane hydrate
- 1.1. Origin of gas hydrates
- 1.2. Existence of gas hydrates
- 1.3. Methane hydrate reservoirs
- 1.4. Methane hydrate exploration and estimation
- 1.5. Methane hydrate production methods
- Chapter 2. Research and development in major countries: general view
- 2.1. From oil/gas fields to methane hydrate fields
- 2.2. On-land explorations and offshore explorations
- 2.3. Recent gas extraction trials and implications
- 2.4. Historical developments of field techniques
- Chapter 3. Microscale concepts and dissociation dynamics
- 3.1. Microscopic structure of gas hydrate in sediment
- 3.2. Interfacial dynamics and microscale experiments
- 3.3. Pore network modeling
- 3.4. Sand movement and phase equilibrium process in microscale
- 3.5. Summary
- Chapter 4. Core-scale in-lab experiments and numerical estimation
- 4.1. Pore-filling characteristics and chemistry of hydrate-bearing sediment
- 4.2. Permeability measurements and comparisons
- 4.3. Relative permeability estimation
- 4.4. Hydrate dissociation experiments in core-scale
- 4.5. Numerical modeling methods in core-scale
- 4.6. Summary and future concerns
- Chapter 5. Numerical methods in multiscale system analysis
- 5.1. Importance and history of numerical simulators
- 5.2. Laboratory-scale (core-scale) simulations
- 5.3. Reservoir-scale simulations
- 5.4. Molecular dynamics simulation
- 5.5. Summary
- Chapter 6. Real-field core sampling and analysis
- 6.1. Fundamentals of geomechanics in hydrate-bearing layers
- 6.2. Core sampling techniques for hydrate-bearing layers
- 6.3. Geomechanical analysis of core samples
- 6.4. Core sample geochemical analysis
- 6.5. Core sample visualization analysis
- Chapter 7. Reservoir-scale considerations and methods
- 7.1. Key points to choose producible methane hydrate reservoirs
- 7.2. Importance of well logs to identify methane hydrate reservoirs
- 7.3. Real geological considerations
- Chapter 8. Real onshore tests in Russia, Canada, and USA
- 8.1. Messoyakha permafrost field test
- 8.2. Mallik permafrost field test
- 8.3. The tests in the North Slope of Alaska
- 8.4. Summary
- Chapter 9. Real offshore tests in Japan (2013, 2017) and China (2017)
- 9.1. Offshore production tests in Japan (2013, 2017)
- 9.2. Offshore production tests in China (2017)
- 9.3. Summary and implications for long-term production
- Chapter 10. Geological and geochemical characterization of gas hydrate reservoirs in the Indian Sea
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Characteristics of gas hydrate-bearing sediments from Indian Margin
- 10.3. Geochemical footprints of gas hydrate reservoirs in Indian Margins
- 10.4. Summary
- Chapter 11. Activities in the mid-East, Europe, and other regions
- 11.1. Activities in the Gulf of Mexico
- 11.2. Activities in Indian Sea
- 11.3. Activities in Ulleung Basin
- 11.4. Activities in the Black Sea
- 11.5. Activities in the Mediterranean Sea
- 11.6. Activities in other regions
- Chapter 12. Comparisons of field activities in different worldwide sites
- 12.1. Geological settings
- 12.2. Technological routes
- 12.3. Outcomes and strategies
- Chapter 13. Emerging technologies in methane hydrate projects
- 13.1. Industry-level developments
- 13.2. Exploration technologies
- 13.3. Drilling technologies
- 13.4. Coring technologies
- 13.5. Well completion technologies
- 13.6. Production technologies
- Chapter 14. Sensing and monitoring technologies in real offshore tests
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Monitoring well system
- 14.3. Production well system
- 14.4. Environmental well system
- 14.5. Summary
- Chapter 15. Operation and well monitoring and recording technologies
- 15.1. Deployment of monitoring methods at wellsite
- 15.2. Long-term autonomous monitoring technologies
- 15.3. Short-term real-time production monitoring technologies
- 15.4. Emerging monitoring technologies
- 15.5. Summary
- Chapter 16. Economic aspect and environmental issues
- 16.1. Economic aspect: gas price comparison
- 16.2. Methods to reduce the cost of methane gas extraction
- 16.3. Environmental issues and regulations
- 16.4. Summary
- Chapter 17. Policy assessment and outlook for future
- 17.1. General view from policy trend
- 17.2. Trends and development for regulations on methane hydrate exploration
- 17.3. Summary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 10, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- No. of pages: 468
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128185650
- eBook ISBN: 9780128185667
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Lin Chen
Dr. Lin Chen is now a full Professor in the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a joint professor in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His current research topics include unconventional energy resources (methane hydrate), supercritical fluids, multiscale heat/mass transfer, and advanced measurement techniques. In recent years, he has authored more than 120 well-cited international journal papers, conference papers/presentations/keynotes. He was the winner of AUTSE Young Scholar Award in 2018. He is the Associate Editor of ASME JNERS and board for The J. of Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier). He has published several books/chapters, including the most famous one on energy conversion (“Advanced Applications of Supercritical Fluids in Energy Systems”, IGI Global, 2017, 680 pages).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaSM
Sukru Merey
Dr. Sukru Merey is an Associate Professor in Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Batman University, Turkey. He graduated BSc., MSc. and PhD from Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 2009, 2013, and 2017 respectively. He worked as a well completion engineer at Turkish Petroleum Corporation more than 1 year between 2010 and 2011. His current research topics include well completion, well stimulation, reservoir simulation, adsorption, CO2 sequestration, shale gas reservoirs, coalbed methane, and gas hydrates.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Batman University, TurkeyRead Oceanic Methane Hydrates on ScienceDirect