Methane hydrate gas production: evaluating and exploiting the solid gas resource

• Main Author: McGuire, P. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamos National Laboratory 1981
• Subjects: Fuels; Wells 030900* > Natural Gas > Artificial Stimulation; Plowshare > (-1989); Organic Compounds; Hydrates; Water; Gas Hydrates; Steam Injection; Natural Gas; Thermal Recovery; Fluid Injection; Fluid Injection Processes; Methane; Enhanced Recovery; Gas Fuels; Natural Gas Wells; 03 Natural Gas; Fossil Fuels; Hydrocarbons; Fracturing; Fuel Gas; Comminution; Hydraulic Fracturing; Oxygen Compounds; Recovery; Energy Sources; Fluids; Gases; Hydrogen Compounds; Production; Hot Water; Alkanes; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1114171/

Methane hydrate gas could be a tremendous energy resource if methods can be devised to produce this gas economically. This paper examines two methods of producing gas from hydrate deposits by the injection of hot water or steam, and also examines the feasibility of hydraulic fracturing and pressure reduction as a hydrate gas production technique. A hydraulic fracturing technique suitable for hydrate reservoirs and a system for coring hydrate reservoirs are also described.