financial support received from the Basic Research Program of Qinghai Province(2023-ZJ-703);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22178379,42206223);the National Key Research and Development Programof China(2021YFC2800902)is gratefully acknowledged.
It is known that salt ions are abundant in the natural environment where natural gas hydrates are located;thus,it is essential to investigate the self-preservation effect of salt ions on methane hydrates.The dissociat...
supported by the Guangdong Province Marine Economic Development(Six Major Marine Industries)Special Fund Project([2021]56);the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou)(GML2019ZD0105);the Guangzhou Science and Technology Project(202201011463);project of the China Geological Survey(DD20211350).
In this work,the authors monitored the formation and dissociation process of methane hydrate in four different rock core samples through nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR)relaxation time(T_(2))and 2D imaging measurement....
the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFC0307301-1);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41676041);the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou)(No.GML2019ZD0104);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(No.2013AA092601)。
New acquired and reprocessed three-dimensional(3D)seismic data were used to delineate the distribution and characterization of bottom simulating reflections(BSRs)in the Chaoshan Sag,in the eastern part of Dongsha Isla...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Nos.2018YFC0310006 and 2017YFC0307300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51806027 and 51890911);PetroChina Innovation Foundation。
Natural gas hydrates are solid compounds with cage-like structures formed by gas and water.An intriguing phenomenon that gas hydrates can dissociate at a low rate below the ice freezing point has been viewed as the me...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 41376078,51639008,and 51239010);the China Geological Survey(Grant DD20160216);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant 2017027)
The changes in the mechanical properties of gas hydrate-bearing sediments(GHBS) induced by gas hydrate(GH) dissociation are essential to the evaluation of GH exploration and stratum instabilities. Previous studies pre...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11272314, 51239010, 41376078);a joint project of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant 2015A-4813);a project of the China Geological Survey (Grant GZH201100311)
Gas hydrate(GH) dissociates owing to thermal injection or pressure reduction from the well in gas/oil or GH exploitation. GH dissociation leads to, for example, decreases in soil strength, engineering failures such ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2013CB035902);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51038007);the State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering Project(2013-KY-04 and 2014-KY-03)
This paper presents a meso-level simulation of gas hydrate dissociation in low-permeability marine sediments. Interstitial pores are defined to describe fluid flow and particle movement. The proposed model couples mul...
supported by the National Major Fundamental Research and Development Project of China (No. 2009CB219501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40976035 and No. 41276046)
The distributions of lipids in surface and subsurface sediments from the northern South China Sea were determined. The n-alkanes were in bimodal distribution that is characterized by a centre at n-C16 –n-C20 with max...
supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project,China (Grant No. 2011ZX05026-004-07);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program,Grant No. 2006AA09209-5);Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program,Grant No. 2009CB219507)
In this study, a numerical model is developed to investigate the hydrate dissociation and gas production in porous media by depressurization. A series of simulation runs are conducted to study the impacts of permeabil...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant N. 2006AA09A209-7);the Major Oil and Gas Program of China (Grant No. 2008ZX05026-04-011);Knowledge Innovative Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-L02);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 1077218)
Thermally induced evolution of phase transformations is a basic physical-chemical process in the dissociation of gas hydrate in sediment (GHS). Heat transfer leads to the weakening of the bed soil and the simultaneous...