Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence
Highlights • There is direct and indirect evidence for hydrate occurrence in several areas around Europe. • Hydrate is particularly widespread offshore Norway and Svalbard and in the Black Sea. • Hydrate occurrence often coincides with conventional thermogenic hydrocarbon provinces. • The regional a...
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Highlights • There is direct and indirect evidence for hydrate occurrence in several areas around Europe. • Hydrate is particularly widespread offshore Norway and Svalbard and in the Black Sea. • Hydrate occurrence often coincides with conventional thermogenic hydrocarbon provinces. • The regional abundance of hydrate in Europe is poorly known. Abstract 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 hydrate occurrence has received less attention. The European Union-funded project “Marine gas hydrate – an indigenous resource of natural gas for Europe” (MIGRATE) aimed to determine the European potential inventory of exploitable gas hydrate, to assess current technologies for their production, and to evaluate the associated risks. We present a synthesis of results from a MIGRATE working group that focused on the definition and assessment of hydrate in Europe. Our review includes the western and eastern margins of Greenland, the Barents Sea and onshore and offshore Svalbard, the Atlantic margin of Europe, extending south to the northwestern margin of Morocco, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the western and southern margins of the Black Sea. We have not attempted to cover the high Arctic, the Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian sectors of the Black Sea, or overseas territories of European nations. Following a formalised process, we defined a range of indicators of hydrate presence based on geophysical, geochemical and geological data. Our study was framed by the constraint of the hydrate stability field in European seas. Direct hydrate indicators included sampling of hydrate; the presence of bottom simulating reflectors in seismic reflection profiles; gas seepage into the ocean; and chlorinity anomalies in sediment cores. Indirect indicators included geophysical survey evidence for seismic velocity and/or resistivity anomalies, seismic reflectivity anomalies or subsurface gas ... |
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Minshull, Timothy A. Marín-Moreno, Hector Betlem, Peter Bialas, Jörg Buenz, Stefan Burwicz, Ewa B. Cameselle, Alejandra L. Cifci, Gunay Giustiniani, Michela Hillman, Jess I. T. Hölz, Sebastian Hopper, John R. Ion, Gabriel León, Ricardo Magalhaes, Vitor Makovsky, Yizhaq Mata, Maria-Pilar Max, Michael D. Nielsen, Tove Okay, Seda Ostrovsky, Ilia O'Neill, Nick Pinheiro, Luis M. Plaza-Faverola, Andreia A. Rey, Daniel Roy, Srikumar Schwalenberg, Katrin Senger, Kim Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil Vasilev, Atanas Vázquez, Juan-Tomás |
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Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence |
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:47607 2023-05-15T15:13:56+02:00 Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence Minshull, Timothy A. Marín-Moreno, Hector Betlem, Peter Bialas, Jörg Buenz, Stefan Burwicz, Ewa B. Cameselle, Alejandra L. Cifci, Gunay Giustiniani, Michela Hillman, Jess I. T. Hölz, Sebastian Hopper, John R. Ion, Gabriel León, Ricardo Magalhaes, Vitor Makovsky, Yizhaq Mata, Maria-Pilar Max, Michael D. Nielsen, Tove Okay, Seda Ostrovsky, Ilia O'Neill, Nick Pinheiro, Luis M. Plaza-Faverola, Andreia A. Rey, Daniel Roy, Srikumar Schwalenberg, Katrin Senger, Kim Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil Vasilev, Atanas Vázquez, Juan-Tomás 2020-01 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/1/Minshull.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/7/pm_2019_55_Methan-MIGRATE_01.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/8/pm_2019_55_hydrates-MIGRATE_01.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014 en de eng ger Elsevier https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/1/Minshull.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/7/pm_2019_55_Methan-MIGRATE_01.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47607/8/pm_2019_55_hydrates-MIGRATE_01.pdf Minshull, T. A., Marín-Moreno, H., Betlem, P., Bialas, J. , Buenz, S., Burwicz, E. B. , Cameselle, A. L., Cifci, G., Giustiniani, M. , Hillman, J. I. T., Hölz, S. , Hopper, J. R., Ion, G., León, R., Magalhaes, V., Makovsky, Y., Mata, M. P., Max, M. D., Nielsen, T., Okay, S., Ostrovsky, I., O'Neill, N., Pinheiro, L. M., Plaza-Faverola, A. A., Rey, D., Roy, S. , Schwalenberg, K., Senger, K. , Vadakkepuliyambatta, S. , Vasilev, A. and Vázquez, J. T. (2020) Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 111 . pp. 735-764. DOI 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014>. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014 2023-04-07T15:47:03Z Highlights • There is direct and indirect evidence for hydrate occurrence in several areas around Europe. • Hydrate is particularly widespread offshore Norway and Svalbard and in the Black Sea. • Hydrate occurrence often coincides with conventional thermogenic hydrocarbon provinces. • The regional abundance of hydrate in Europe is poorly known. Abstract 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 hydrate occurrence has received less attention. The European Union-funded project “Marine gas hydrate – an indigenous resource of natural gas for Europe” (MIGRATE) aimed to determine the European potential inventory of exploitable gas hydrate, to assess current technologies for their production, and to evaluate the associated risks. We present a synthesis of results from a MIGRATE working group that focused on the definition and assessment of hydrate in Europe. Our review includes the western and eastern margins of Greenland, the Barents Sea and onshore and offshore Svalbard, the Atlantic margin of Europe, extending south to the northwestern margin of Morocco, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the western and southern margins of the Black Sea. We have not attempted to cover the high Arctic, the Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian sectors of the Black Sea, or overseas territories of European nations. Following a formalised process, we defined a range of indicators of hydrate presence based on geophysical, geochemical and geological data. Our study was framed by the constraint of the hydrate stability field in European seas. Direct hydrate indicators included sampling of hydrate; the presence of bottom simulating reflectors in seismic reflection profiles; gas seepage into the ocean; and chlorinity anomalies in sediment cores. Indirect indicators included geophysical survey evidence for seismic velocity and/or resistivity anomalies, seismic reflectivity anomalies or subsurface gas ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barents Sea Greenland Methane hydrate Svalbard OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Arctic Barents Sea Greenland Norway Svalbard Marine and Petroleum Geology 111 735 764 |