Mechanisms of methane hydrate formation in geological systems

K You, PB Flemings, A Malinverno… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural gas hydrate is ice‐like mixture of gas (mostly methane) and water that is widely
found in sediments along the world's continental margins and within and beneath permafrost …

State of the art: Natural gas hydrates as a natural resource

CA Koh, AK Sum, ED Sloan - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
An overview is provided of hydrates in nature manuscripts among the 800 papers of the
Seventh International Conference on Gas Hydrates (Edinburgh, July 17–22, 2011), to …

Active gas venting through hydrate-bearing sediments on the Vestnesa Ridge, offshore W-Svalbard

S Bünz, S Polyanov, S Vadakkepuliyambatta… - Marine geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Gas hydrate systems offshore western Svalbard are extensive and include the whole
Vestnesa Ridge, an elongated sediment drift north of the Molloy Transform and just east of …

Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence

TA Minshull, H Marín-Moreno, P Betlem, J Bialas… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Large national programs in the United States and several Asian countries have defined and
characterised their marine methane hydrate occurrences in some detail, but European …

Repeated fluid expulsion through sub-seabed chimneys offshore Norway in response to glacial cycles

A Plaza-Faverola, S Bünz, J Mienert - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Focused fluid flow through sub-seabed sediments is a common phenomenon on continental
margins worldwide. However, the governing controls and timing of this fluid release have …

Electrical resistivity tomography combined with seismic data estimates heterogeneous distribution of near-seafloor concentrated gas hydrates within gas chimneys

K Ishizu, A Oda, T Goto, T Kasaya, T Watanabe… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Near-seafloor concentrated gas hydrates (GHs) containing large amounts of methane have
been identified at various gas chimney sites. Although understanding the spatial distribution …

Basin structure and prospectivity of the NE Atlantic volcanic rifted margin: cross-border examples from the Faroe–Shetland, Møre and Southern Vøring basins

JM Millett, BM Manton, D Zastrozhnov, S Planke… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The NE Atlantic volcanic rifted margins include vast underexplored basin areas
neighbouring mature petroleum-producing regions. We appraise the cross-border …

Hydrocarbon plumbing systems above the Snøhvit gas field: structural control and implications for thermogenic methane leakage in the Hammerfest Basin, SW …

I Ostanin, Z Anka, R di Primio, A Bernal - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Based on the analysis of the high-resolution 3D seismic data from the SW Barents Sea we
study the hydrocarbon plumbing system above the Snøhvit and Albatross gas field to …

A joint electromagnetic and seismic study of an active pockmark within the hydrate stability field at the Vestnesa Ridge, West Svalbard margin

BK Goswami, KA Weitemeyer… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We acquired coincident marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM), high‐resolution
seismic reflection and ocean‐bottom seismometer (OBS) data over an active pockmark in …

Geological controls on fluid flow and gas hydrate **o development on the Barents Sea margin

M Waage, A Portnov, P Serov, S Bünz… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In 2014, the discovery of seafloor mounds leaking methane gas into the water column in the
northwestern Barents Sea became the first to document the existence of nonpermafrost …