Gas Hydrate Exploration and Interpretation Analysis
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Geophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2022) | Viewed by 5243
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine geology and geophysics; gas hydrate; seismic and well log analyses
Interests: gas hydrates; basin modeling; petroleum modeling
Interests: fluid flow; gas hydrate; methane; geohazards; numerical modeling
Interests: gas hydrates; seabed fluid-flow; carbon capture and geological storage; high-resolution 2D/3D pore-structure imaging techniques; Shale gas characterization; Igneous intrusions; submarine volcanic ridges
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The current Special Issue of Geosciences focuses on recent advances in gas hydrate exploration and interpretation, emphasizing their economic, geo-hazard and environmental significance. We invite inter-disciplinary manuscript submissions on the offshore and onshore (e.g., permafrost, subglacial) gas hydrate systems using remote-sensing geophysical data, geochemical and laboratory analyses, well log data, sediment cores and modelling. We particularly encourage submissions focusing on the preferential gas hydrate formation in marine sediments (e.g., why do we find gas hydrates in certain places but do not find them in other geologically similar systems?). An important and often debated question here is the source of gas in both shallow and deep gas hydrate systems. Gas origin (microbial versus thermogenic) is typically inferred from the gas chromatographic and isotopic analyses, yet interpretation of these data can be equivocal, particularly in systems dominated by long-range fluid flow below the gas hydrate stability zone. Furthermore, we invite studies on causes and controls of gas transport through the gas hydrate stability zone and near-seafloor hydrate systems posing geo-hazard risks. We encourage regional as well as global hydrate studies with a focus on leveraging diverse datasets using novel techniques (e.g., machine learning approaches) and applying these datasets for exploration and quantitative analyses of gas hydrate accumulations.
Dr. Alexey Portnov
Dr. Ewa Burwicz-Galerne
Dr. Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta
Dr. Srikumar Roy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Gas hydrate
- Fluid flow
- Methane
- Marine sediments
- Geo-hazard
- Energy
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