Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations
Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007 Gas hydrates represent a huge potential future resource of natural gas. However, significant technical issues need to be resolved before this enormous resource can be considered to be an economically producible reserve. Developments in numeri...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/8921 2023-05-15T17:12:11+02:00 Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations Patil, Shirish L. Chen, Gang Huang, Scott L. Sonwalkar, Vikas S. Reynolds, Douglas B. 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8921 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8921 Mining and Geological Engineering Department Petroleum engineering Dissertation phd 2007 ftunivalaska 2023-02-23T21:37:09Z Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007 Gas hydrates represent a huge potential future resource of natural gas. However, significant technical issues need to be resolved before this enormous resource can be considered to be an economically producible reserve. Developments in numerical reservoir simulations give useful information in predicting the technical and economic analysis of the hydrate-dissociation process. For this reason, a commercial reservoir simulator, CMG (Computer Modeling Group) STARS (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator) has been adapted in this study to model gas hydrate dissociation caused by several production mechanisms (depressurization, hot water injection and steam injection). Even though CMG is a commercially available simulator capable of handling thermal oil recovery processes, the novel approach of this work is the way by which the simulator was modified by formulating a kinetic and thermodynamic model to describe the hydrate decomposition. The simulator can calculate gas and water production rates from a well, and the profiles of pressure, temperature and saturation distributions in the formation for various operating conditions. Results indicate that a significant amount of gas can be produced from a hypothetical hydrate formation overlying a free gas accumulation by several different production scenarios. However, steam injection remarkably improves gas production over depressurization and hot water injection. A revised axisymmetric model for simulating gas production from hydrate decomposition in porous media by a depressurization method is also presented. Self-similar solutions are obtained for constant well pressure and fixed natural gas output. A comparison of these two boundary conditions at the well showed that a higher gas flow rate can be achieved in the long run in the case of constant well pressure over that of fixed gas output in spite of slower movement of the dissociation front. For different reservoir temperatures and various ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Methane hydrate Alaska University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Fairbanks |
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007 Gas hydrates represent a huge potential future resource of natural gas. However, significant technical issues need to be resolved before this enormous resource can be considered to be an economically producible reserve. Developments in numerical reservoir simulations give useful information in predicting the technical and economic analysis of the hydrate-dissociation process. For this reason, a commercial reservoir simulator, CMG (Computer Modeling Group) STARS (Steam, Thermal, and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator) has been adapted in this study to model gas hydrate dissociation caused by several production mechanisms (depressurization, hot water injection and steam injection). Even though CMG is a commercially available simulator capable of handling thermal oil recovery processes, the novel approach of this work is the way by which the simulator was modified by formulating a kinetic and thermodynamic model to describe the hydrate decomposition. The simulator can calculate gas and water production rates from a well, and the profiles of pressure, temperature and saturation distributions in the formation for various operating conditions. Results indicate that a significant amount of gas can be produced from a hypothetical hydrate formation overlying a free gas accumulation by several different production scenarios. However, steam injection remarkably improves gas production over depressurization and hot water injection. A revised axisymmetric model for simulating gas production from hydrate decomposition in porous media by a depressurization method is also presented. Self-similar solutions are obtained for constant well pressure and fixed natural gas output. A comparison of these two boundary conditions at the well showed that a higher gas flow rate can be achieved in the long run in the case of constant well pressure over that of fixed gas output in spite of slower movement of the dissociation front. For different reservoir temperatures and various ... |
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Chen, Gang Huang, Scott L. Sonwalkar, Vikas S. Reynolds, Douglas B. |
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Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations |
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Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations |
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Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations |
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Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations |
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Modeling Of Depressurization And Thermal Reservoir Simulation To Predict Gas Production From Methane -Hydrate Formations |
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modeling of depressurization and thermal reservoir simulation to predict gas production from methane -hydrate formations |
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2007 |
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Methane hydrate Alaska |
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