Characterizing the variability of natural gas hydrate composition from a selected site of the Western Black Sea, off Romania
Natural Gas Hydrates (NGH) collected during the Ghass cruise 2015 in the Western Black Sea onboard the R/V Pourquoi pas? are characterized by a suite of techniques. Gas Chromatography and Raman spectroscopy are used for the identification of the nature of the gas source, the hydrate structure and sp...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.1zhftt 2023-05-15T17:12:12+02:00 Characterizing the variability of natural gas hydrate composition from a selected site of the Western Black Sea, off Romania Chazallon, B. Rodriguez, C.t. Ruffine, Livio Carpentier, Y. Donval, Jean-pierre Ker, Stephan Riboulot, Vincent https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104785 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00656/76803/79944.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00656/76803/ en eng Elsevier BV doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104785 10670/1.1zhftt https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00656/76803/79944.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00656/76803/ Archimer, archive institutionnelle de l'Ifremer Marine And Petroleum Geology (0264-8172) (Elsevier BV), 2021-02 , Vol. 124 , P. 104785 (15p.) geo envir Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ fttriple https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104785 2023-01-22T18:46:20Z Natural Gas Hydrates (NGH) collected during the Ghass cruise 2015 in the Western Black Sea onboard the R/V Pourquoi pas? are characterized by a suite of techniques. Gas Chromatography and Raman spectroscopy are used for the identification of the nature of the gas source, the hydrate structure and spatial variability of cage occupancies. The nature and source of hydrate forming gases primarily reveal a high methane content (99.6 mol%) and small amount of nitrogen (>0.29 mol%) and CO2 (0.056 mol%). Isotopic analyses from the hydrate-bound methane and recently published results from Pape et al. (2020) clearly indicate a microbial source of gas supplying the hydrate deposit generated by the reduction of carbon. For the first time, Micro-Raman imaging spectroscopy was applied to the Western Black Sea NGH and the results show a heterogeneous distribution of the encapsulated guest molecules (CH4, N2 and H2S), which is associated with a spatial variability of the guest-gas composition at the micron-scale. Some portions of the 2D-Raman images clearly exhibit a relative N2-enrichment (with a concentration exceeding 6 mol% N2 at some positions), while H2S shows a rather minor contribution on all the spectral maps investigated. A correlation is then established between the composition of the gas in the NGH and its impact on the CH4 cage occupancy, with a ratio of θLC/θSC (large cage/small cage) between ∼ 0.5 and 1.26 depending on the positions analyzed. The departure from the expected ratio in pure methane hydrate is attributed to the preferential encasement of N2 in the large cage of the NGH structure. In addition, the occurrence of carotenoids identified in sediment-rich zones show a minor impact on the CH4 cage occupancies. The results are discussed within the context of natural gas resource estimates in NGH to emphasize how the measured cage occupancies may impact the volumetric conversion factor commonly used with other geologic parameters to determine the resource endowment and global volume of methane. The ... Text Methane hydrate Unknown Pourquoi Pas ENVELOPE(135.783,135.783,-66.083,-66.083) Pourquoi-Pas ENVELOPE(-67.450,-67.450,-67.700,-67.700) Pourquoi-Pas? ENVELOPE(135.750,135.750,-66.200,-66.200) Marine and Petroleum Geology 124 104785 |
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Natural Gas Hydrates (NGH) collected during the Ghass cruise 2015 in the Western Black Sea onboard the R/V Pourquoi pas? are characterized by a suite of techniques. Gas Chromatography and Raman spectroscopy are used for the identification of the nature of the gas source, the hydrate structure and spatial variability of cage occupancies. The nature and source of hydrate forming gases primarily reveal a high methane content (99.6 mol%) and small amount of nitrogen (>0.29 mol%) and CO2 (0.056 mol%). Isotopic analyses from the hydrate-bound methane and recently published results from Pape et al. (2020) clearly indicate a microbial source of gas supplying the hydrate deposit generated by the reduction of carbon. For the first time, Micro-Raman imaging spectroscopy was applied to the Western Black Sea NGH and the results show a heterogeneous distribution of the encapsulated guest molecules (CH4, N2 and H2S), which is associated with a spatial variability of the guest-gas composition at the micron-scale. Some portions of the 2D-Raman images clearly exhibit a relative N2-enrichment (with a concentration exceeding 6 mol% N2 at some positions), while H2S shows a rather minor contribution on all the spectral maps investigated. A correlation is then established between the composition of the gas in the NGH and its impact on the CH4 cage occupancy, with a ratio of θLC/θSC (large cage/small cage) between ∼ 0.5 and 1.26 depending on the positions analyzed. The departure from the expected ratio in pure methane hydrate is attributed to the preferential encasement of N2 in the large cage of the NGH structure. In addition, the occurrence of carotenoids identified in sediment-rich zones show a minor impact on the CH4 cage occupancies. The results are discussed within the context of natural gas resource estimates in NGH to emphasize how the measured cage occupancies may impact the volumetric conversion factor commonly used with other geologic parameters to determine the resource endowment and global volume of methane. The ... |
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Characterizing the variability of natural gas hydrate composition from a selected site of the Western Black Sea, off Romania |
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Characterizing the variability of natural gas hydrate composition from a selected site of the Western Black Sea, off Romania |
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