Gas production from hydrate resevoirs

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In this study; gas production by depressurization method from a hydrate reservoir containing free gas zone below the hydrate zone is numerically modeled through 3 dimensional, 3 phase, non-isothermal reservoir simulation. The endothermic nature of hydrate decomposition requires modeling to be non-isothermal; hence energy balance equations must be employed in the simulation process. TOUGH-Fx, the successor of the well known multipurpose reservoir simulator TOUGH2 (Pruess [24]) and its very first module TOUGH-Fx/Hydrate, both developed by Moridis et.al [23] at LBNL, are utilized to model production from a theoretical hydrate reservoir, which is first studied by Holder [11] and then by Moridis [22], for comparison purposes. The study involves 2 different reservoir models, one with 30% gas in the hydrate zone (case 1) and other one with 30% water in the hydrate zone (case 2). These models are further investigated for the effect of well-bore heating. The prominent results of the modeling study are: · In case 1, second dissociation front develops at the top of hydrate zone and most substantial methane release from the hydrate occurs there. · In case 2 (hydrate-water in the hydrate zone), because a second dissociation front at the top of hydrate zone could not fully develop due to high capillary pressure acting on liquid phase, a structure similar to ice lens formation is observed. · Initial cumulative replenishment (first 5 years) and the replenishment rate (first 3.5 years) are higher for case 2 because, production pressure drop is felt all over the reservoir due to low compressibility of water and more hydrate is decomposed. Compared to previous works of Holder [11] and Moridis [22], amount of released gas contribution within the first 3 years of production is significantly low which is primarily attributed to the specified high capillary pressure function.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15224

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D. Alp, “Gas production from hydrate resevoirs,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.