Water permeability in hydrate‐bearing sediments: A pore‐scale study

S Dai, Y Seol - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Permeability is a critical parameter governing methane flux and fluid flow in hydrate‐bearing
sediments; however, limited valid data are available due to experimental challenges. Here …

Review of natural gas hydrate dissociation effects on seabed stability

M Zhang, M Niu, S Shen, S Dai, Y Xu - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
As a high-energy clean energy substance, natural gas hydrate (NGH) has a high value of
development and utilization. However, NGH is extremely easy to decompose during its …

Comprehensive effects of heat and flow on the methane hydrate dissociation in porous media

Z Zhang, T Xu, S Li, X Li, MJB Montilla, C Lu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The dissociation of methane hydrate in porous media is a heat flow coupling process. In this
paper, we established a heat flow coupling algorithm for hydrate dissociation. A core-scale …

Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds

R Katsman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Methane (CH 4) is a potent greenhouse gas that has a major impact on Earth's climate. CH 4
is accommodated in discrete bubbles in aquatic muds, whose sizes greatly exceed the pore …

Rigorous coupling of geomechanics and multiphase flow with strong capillarity

J Kim, HA Tchelepi, R Juanes - SPE journal, 2013 - onepetro.org
We study sequential formulations for coupled multiphase flow and reservoir geomechanics.
First, we identify the proper definition of effective stress in multiphase-fluid systems. Although …

Gas‐driven tensile fracturing in shallow marine sediments

H Daigle, A Cook, Y Fang, A Bihani… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The flow of gas through shallow marine sediments is an important component of the global
carbon cycle and affects methane release to the ocean and atmosphere as well as …

Methane release from warming‐induced hydrate dissociation in the West Svalbard continental margin: Timing, rates, and geological controls

KE Thatcher, GK Westbrook, S Sarkar… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of plumes of methane bubbles, first observed in 2008, emanate from an area of
the seabed off West Svalbard that has become 1° C warmer over the past 30 years. The …

Fines migration and pore clogging induced by single-and two-phase fluid flows in porous media: From the perspectives of particle detachment and particle-level forces

G Han, TH Kwon, JY Lee, J Jung - Geomechanics for Energy and the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Depressurization of hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS) is inevitably accompanied with
sediment transport, not only structural host sediment itself but also fine particles, which can …

Methane hydrate formation and thermal based dissociation behavior in silica glass bead porous media

GC Fitzgerald, MJ Castaldi… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Formation and thermal based dissociation of methane pore space hydrate has been studied
at various initial hydrate saturations and heating rates utilizing a 1.3 cm3 glass bead sample …

Invasion of drilling mud into gas-hydrate-bearing sediments. Part I: effect of drilling mud properties

F Ning, K Zhang, N Wu, L Zhang, G Li… - Geophysical journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
To our knowledge, this study is the first to perform a numerical simulation and analysis of the
dynamic behaviour of drilling mud invasion into oceanic gas-hydrate-bearing sediment …