Exploration and production of oceanic natural gas hydrate : critical factors for commercialization /: critical factors for commercialization. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael D. Max, Arthur H. Johnson.
• Authors: Max, Michael D; Johnson, A. H (Arthur H.)
• Contents: Preface Chapter 1 Energy Overview: Future for Natural Gas 1.1 Energy, GDP, and Society 1.2 The Energy Mix 1.3 Electrical Load Characteristic1.4 Matching Power Supply to Demand1.5. The 100% Renewable Energy Objective and the Cost and Security Roadblocks1.6 Energy Policy in a CO2 Sensitive Power Future 1.7 Strategic Importance of Natural Gas in the New Energy Paradigm 1.8 Natural Gas Backstop to Renewable Energy ReferencesChapter 2 Economic Characteristics of Deepwater Natural Gas Hydrate 2.1 Natural Gas Hydrate 2.1.1 NGH as a Natural Gas Storage Media 2.1.2 Solution Concentration Controls Growth 2.1.2.1 Gas Transport within a Sediment Pile 2.1.3 NGH Stability 2.1.4 The Gas Hydrate Stability Zone 2.1.5 The Seafloor may not be the Top of the GHSZ: 2.2 NGH Stability within the GHSZ: Implications for Gas Production Cost 2.3 Geology Controls NGH Paragenesis 2.4 Production-Oriented Classification of Oceanic NGH Concentrations in Permeable Strata 2.5 NGH may be the Largest Natural Gas Resource on Earth 2.6 Other NGH Concentrations that May Be Producable 2.6.1 NGH Vent Plugs 2.6.2 Stratabound Secondary Porosity NGH Concentrations 2.6.3 Blake Ridge Type Deposits 2.7 NGH in the Spectrum of Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources 2.8 Low Environmental Risk Character of the NGH Resource 2.9 Could Low-Salinity Water be a Valuable Byproduct? ReferencesChapter 3 Exploration for Deepwater Natural Gas Hydrate 3.1 NGH Exploration 3.1.1 Deepwater and Ultra-deepwater 3.1.2 Basin modeling 3.1.3 NGH Prospect Zone. 3.2 NGH Petroleum System Analysis 3.2.1 NGH and Conventional Hydrocarbon System Analysis3.3 Marine Sediment Host for NGH deposits3.4. NGH Reservoir Hydrocarbon Component Expectations 3.4.1 Closed NGH Concentrations3.4.2 Open NGH Concentrations 3.5 NGH Exploration Methods 3.5.1 Seismic Survey & Analysis 3.5.1.1 BSR (Bottom Simulating Reflector)3.5.2 Ocean Bottom Seismometers 3.5.3 Electromagnetic (EM) Survey 3.5.4. NGH Ground-Truthing: Drilling 3.5.4.1 Picking Drilling Targets 3.5.5 State of NGH Exploration 3.6 NGH Exploration Potential: Glacial Period Sea Level Low Stands in the Mediterranean and Black Seas 3.6.1 The Mediterranean Sea 3.6.2 Lowstand in the Black Sea: Sand Transfer to the Slopes 3.6.3 GHSZ and NGH Prospectability in the Mediterranean and Black Seas 3.7 National NGH Programs and Company Interest 3.7.1 Exploration Activity in Regions and Countries 3.8 Frontier Regions ReferencesChapter 4 Potential High Quality Reservoir Sediments in the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone 4.1 High Quality Sand Reservoirs on Continental Margin. 4.2 Subsided Rift-Related Sediments 4.3 Paralic Reservoirs 4.4 Aeolian - Sabkha Reservoirs 4.5 Contourites 4.6 Sequence Stratigraphy-Related Marine Sequences 4.7 The Special Case of High Quality Reservoir Potential in the Mediterranean and Black Seas 4.8 Exploration for High Quality Reservoirs ReferencesChapter 5 Valuation of NGH Deposits 5.1 Petrogenesis 5.1 Mineralization Grade 5.2 Valuation 5.2.1 Regional Estimates: Shelf or Basin Analysis 5.2.2 Reservoir Analysis 5.2.3 D Body Analysis 5.2.4 Cell Analysis 5.2.5 Water in the NGH Reservoir 5.3 Geophysical Characterization of NGH Deposit Settings 5.4 The Creaming Curve ReferencesChapter 6 Deepwater Natural Gas Hydrate Innovation Opportunities 6.1 NGH Technology Opportunities 6.2 Exploration Opportunities 6.3 Drilling 6.3.1 Material Requirements 6.3.2 Geotechnical Attributes & Reservoir Stability 6.3.3 Wellbore Stability 6.3.4 Drilling Depths, Pressures and Temperatures 6.4 Production Opportunities 6.4.1 Temperature and Pressure: Production Hazard Potential 6.4.2 Production Containment; Leak-Proof Production from NGH 6.5 Operations on the Seafloor 6.6 Environmental Security 6.7 Lightweight Exploration and Production 6.8 Summary of NGH Opportunity Issues and Conclusions ReferencesChapter 7 Leveraging Technology for NGH Development and Production 7.1 The Curve of Technology and Innovation 7.2 Moving to the Seafloor: Subsea Industrial Sites 7.3 Background Technology Trends 7.3.1 Convergence of AUVs, ROVs and Robotization of Seafloor Industrial Sites 7.3.2 Preparation of Seafloor Industrial Sites 7.3.3 Power Systems. 7.3.4 Data Acquisition and Management 7.3.5 Long Range Communications 7.3.6 Conventional Drilling: Ships and Semisubmersibles 7.4 Drilling 7.4.1 Riserless Drilling 7.4.2 Steerable Drilling Systems 7.4.3 Dual Gradient Drilling /Managed Pressure Drilling 7.4.4 Seafloor Hydraulic Units 7.4.5 Advanced Drilling Tools 7.4.6 Narrow Bore and Rigless Drilling 7.4.7 Inclined and Horizontal Well Bores 7.4.8 Coiled Tube Drilling 7.4.9 Multi-Pad and 'Octopus' Drilling 7.5 Production Issues 7.5.1 Gas Scrubbing, Separation, and Compression / Artificial Lift 7.5.2 Sand Control 7.5.3 Flow Assurance 7.5.4 Floating Gas Compression and Transport for Stranded Gas 7.5.5 Water Injection/Extraction Pumps 7.5.6 Realtime Monitoring of Reservoir Condtions 7. 6 Modularization of Apparatus 7. 7 Leveraging of Conventional TechnologyChapter 8 New Technology for NGH Development and Production 8.1 New Technology for the Next Step in NGH Development 8.2 Exploration 8.3 Drilling 8.3.1 NGH Drilling Issues and Objectives 8.3.1.1 Seafloor Worksite for NGH-Specific Drilling 8.3.1.2 Seawater as Drilling Fluid 8.3.2 Active Tethered Drilling 8.3.3 Active Bottom Hole Assemblies 8.3.3.1 Positioning Drilling Units 8.3.3.2 Maneuvering for Super-Directional Drilling 8.3.3.3 Drilling Tools, Wellbore Width Control, and Sidetracks 8.3.3.4 Reservoir and Environs Stability 8.3.4 NGH Well Conventional Casing Options 8.3.5 Active Wellbore Lining 8.3.5.1 Examples of Liner Systems 8.3.5.2 Special Section Liners 8.3.6 Wellbore Geometry 8.4 Production Issues 8.4.1 Sand and Sediment Fines Production 8.4 2 Produced Water 8.4.3 Gas / Water Separation 8.4.4 Reservoir Management 8.4.5 Flow Assurance 8.4.6 Production Risers / Pipelines 8.4.7 Communications, Monitoring, and Active Reservoir Control8.5 Well Abandonment 8.6 NGH as a Geotechnical Material 8.7 Role of Intellectual Property 8.8 Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) 8.10 Optimizing Leveraged and Innovative Technology for NGH Development ReferencesChapter 9 Offshore Operations and Logistics 9.1. NGH Exploration and Production Operations 9.2 Access 9.3 Open Oceanic Regions 9.4 Arctic Ocean 9.4.1 E&P Operation enablement 9.4.2 Factors determining icebreaker requirements 9.4.3 Eurasian Icebreaker fleet 9.4.4 North American Arctic access 9.4.5 Search and Rescue (SAR) 9.4.6 Arctic Spill Response 9.5 Other Frontier Areas ReferencesChapter 10 Energy Resource Risk Factors 10.1 Factoring Risk into Development of Energy Resources 10.2 Risk Factors of Natural Gas Resource Types 10.2.1 Gas Purity 10.2.2 Sediment Host 10.2.3 Flows Under Own Pressure 10.2.4 Recovery Techniques 10.2.5 Injection of Materials and Water Required 10.2.6 Temperature and Pressure 10.2.7 Impact on Water Resources 10.2.8 Water & Air Quality Risk 10.2.9 Blowout Risk & Atmospheric Greenhouse Feedback Potential 10.2.10 Reservoir and production performance 10.3 Risk of Overdependence on Natural Gas 10.4 Environmental Risk to Energy Projects and Production 10.5 NGH Environmental Risk 10.5.1 Tracking of Ocean Environmental Impact 10.6 Geohazards 10.7 Risks of Non-NGH Energy Sources 10.8 Regulations, Leasing, Tax Matters, and Law 10.9 Energy Prices 10.10 Business Cycles 10.11 Exploration Risk 10.12 New Technology Risk 10.13 Downstream Issues and Risk Factors 10.13.1 Natural Gas Hydrate Resource Cycle 10.13.2 Synthetic Implications of NGH used as a storage and transport media 10.14 Safety Management 10.15 Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis 10.16. Discussion ReferencesChapter 11 Elements of Commerciality 11.1 State of the Industry 11.2 Conventional and Shale Gas and Oil Dominate Markets 11.3 Underlying Economics of the Natural Gas Commodity 11.3.1 Funding NGH E&P; lessons from the Shale Patch 11.4 Supply, Demand and Natural Gas Resources and Markets 11.5 The Emerging World Gas Market 11.6 A World Price for Natural Gas 11.7 NGH Factors 11.7.1 NGH Conversion Techniques 11.7.2 Production Rates 11.7.3 Permeability in a NGH Concentration and its Significance for NGH Conversion and Gas Production 11.7.3.1 Does Concentrated NGH have Micro-Permeability? 11.7.4 Production Rate Profiles 11.7.4.1 Pressure Management Summary 11.7.5 Infrastructure 11.7.6 Solution for Stranded Gas 11.8. How Soon NGH? References.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 665.73; Energy; Natural gas -- Hydrates; Natural gas in submerged lands; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Technology & Engineering -- Robotics; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Mineralogy; The environment; Research & development management; Robotics; Mineralogy & gems; Management; Mineral resources; Technology & Engineering -- Power Resources -- General; Energy technology & engineering; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030004019; 3030004015
• Related ISBNs: 3030004007; 9783030004002
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Nov. 30, 2018).
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