Assessment of gas hydrate resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008

Collett, Timothy S.; Agena, W.F.; Lee, Myung W.; Zyrianova, Margarita V.; Bird, Kenneth J.; Charpentier, Ronald R.; Cook, Troy A.; Houseknecht, David W.; Klett, Timothy R.; Pollastro, Richard M.; Schenk, Christopher J.

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“…It is estimated that 2.4 TCM of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas hydrate resources exist in the region [191]. In collaboration with BP Exploration (Alaska) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) drilled a stratigraphic test well in 2007 to assess the potential of hydrates on the North Slope to become technically and commercially viable gas resource.…”

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Review of natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Prospects and challenges

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“…A number of new quan ta ve es mates of in-place methane hydrate volumes (Klauda and Sandler, 2005;Frye, 2008;Wood and Jung, 2008;Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 2012) and, for the fi rst me, technical recoverable Fujii et al, 2008) assessments, have been undertaken using petroleum systems concepts developed for conven onal oil and natural gas explora on. For example, in an assessment of methane hydrate resources on the North Slope of Alaska, Colle et al (2008) indicated that there are about 2.42 trillion cubic meters (~85.4 trillion cubic feet) of technically recoverable methane resources within concentrated, sand-dominated, methane hydrate accumula ons in northern Alaska.…”

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“…Various opera onal groups (reviewed by Colle and Dallimore, 2002) have reported drilling hazards a ributed to the presence of methane hydrate (Figure 13). However, a longer-term and perhaps more diffi cult to constrain risk is the poten al for hydrate dissocia on and sedimentwellbore instability caused by the hea ng of sediment around produc on wells due to sustained fl ow of deeper, warmer fl uids.…”

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“…In a study of methane hydrate resources on the North Slope of Alaska, Colle et al (2008) indicated that there are about 2.42 trillion cubic meters (~85.4 trillion cubic feet) of technically recoverable methane in the sand-dominated accumula ons in northern Alaska. No similar assessments exist for other Arc c permafrost se ngs.…”

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Methane Hydrate Field Program. Development of a Scientific Plan for a Methane Hydrate-Focused Marine Drilling, Logging and Coring Program

Collett

Bahk

Frye³

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This topical report represents a pathway toward be er understanding of the impact of marine methane hydrates on safety and seafl oor stability and future collec on of data that can be used by scien sts, engineers, managers and planners to study climate change and to assess the feasibility of marine methane hydrate as a poten al future energy resource.Our understanding of the occurrence, distribu on and characteris cs of marine methane hydrates is incomplete; therefore, research must con nue to expand if methane hydrates are to be used as a future energy source. Exploring basins with methane hydrates has been occurring for over 30 years, but these eff orts have been episodic in nature. To further our understanding, these eff orts must be more regular and employ new techniques to capture more data.This plan iden fi es incomplete areas of methane hydrate research and off ers solu ons by systema cally reviewing known methane hydrate "Science Challenges" and linking them with "Technical Challenges" and poten al fi eld program loca ons.

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“…Additional early expeditions included ODP legs 164 (Paull et al, 1996) and 204 (Tréhu et al, 2004), IODP Expedition 311 (Riedel et al, 2006a), as well as the 1998 and 2005 drilling programs conducted in the Nankai trough by the MH21 consortium (Tsujii et al, 2009;. More recently, GH drilling projects such as the Gumusut-Kakap project offshore Malaysia (Hadley et al, 2008), the DOEsponsored drilling Legs I and II under the Joint-Industry Project in the Gulf of Mexico , and the India NGHP Expedition 01 (Collett et al, 2008b(Collett et al, , 2008c(Collett et al, , 2008d, as well as those in the offshore of China (Yang et al, 2008) and South Korea (Park et al, 2008) have continued to expand the GH knowledge base.…”

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Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

Moridis

Collett

Pooladi‐Darvish

et al. 2011

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Summary The current paper complements the Moridis et al. (2009) review of the status of the effort toward commercial gas production from hydrates. We aim to describe the concept of the gas-hydrate (GH) petroleum system; to discuss advances, requirements, and suggested practices in GH prospecting and GH deposit characterization; and to review the associated technical, economic, and environmental challenges and uncertainties, which include the following: accurate assessment of producible fractions of the GH resource; development of methods for identifying suitable production targets; sampling of hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS) and sample analysis; analysis and interpretation of geophysical surveys of GH reservoirs; well-testing methods; interpretation of well-testing results; geomechanical and reservoir/well stability concerns; well design, operation, and installation; field operations and extending production beyond sand-dominated GH reservoirs; monitoring production and geomechanical stability; laboratory investigations; fundamental knowledge of hydrate behavior; the economics of commercial gas production from hydrates; and associated environmental concerns.

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Assessment of gas hydrate resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008

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Review of natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Prospects and challenges

Review of natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Prospects and challenges

Methane Hydrate Field Program. Development of a Scientific Plan for a Methane Hydrate-Focused Marine Drilling, Logging and Coring Program

Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

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