Burial Characteristics and Exploitation of Natural Gas Hydrate
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 2556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine geology; phase change and biogeochemical reaction; experimental and numerical simulation; formation and deposition of gas hydrates
Interests: marine geology; deep-water deposition; oil; gas; gas hydrates
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Dear colleagues,
For this Special Issue, we seek papers contributing to the survey, exploration and exploitation of natural gas hydrates, appropriate topics including the field, experimental, or computational-based approaches.
The Guest Editor invites submissions to a Special Issue of Energies regarding the subject area of “Burial Characteristics and Exploitation of Natural Gas Hydrate”. Gas hydrate is a potential energy resource possibly able to enhance climate change and trigger a submarine geohazard, its inventory capable of being 1-7000 × 1015 m3 methane, most located in the continental slopes and less than 10% in the permafrost region. A popular topic for more than two decades, several field trails have been conducted in both the permafrost and slopes.
This Special Issue will focus on the burial characteristics of hydrates in reservoirs, as well as the advances and challenges of their exploitation, topics of interest for publication including, but not limited to:
- Burial of sediments and organic matter;
- Degradation of organic matter;
- Methane production and consumption;
- Characteristics of the reservoir, deposits and sediments;
- Rock–water interaction;
- Biogeochemical reaction and authigenic minerals;
- Bottom-simulating reflector (BSR);
- Gas, water and sand production;
- Depressurization;
- Thermal stimulation;
- CO2 injection;
- N2 injection;
- Instability of the reservoir;
- Experimental and numerical simulations.
Dr. Lihua Liu
Prof. Dr. Ming Su
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural gas hydrate
- gas production
- sedimentation rate
- stability of the reservoir
- sand production
- authigenic mineral
- bottom-simulating reflector (BSR)
- numerical simulation
- biogeochemical reaction
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