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Enhanced Gas Recovery from Methane Hydrate Reservoir in the Nankai Trough, Japan
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- 论文类型：会议论文
- 发表时间：2019-01-01
- 收录刊物：CPCI-S、EI
- 文献类型：A
- 卷号：158
- 页面范围：5213-5218
- 关键字：Oceanic methane hydrate; Vertical well; Aggressive depressurization;
Permeability improvement; Enhanced gas recovery
- 摘要：The 2013 and 2017 offshore methane hydrate production tests conducted in the Nankai Through, Japan, showed the technical feasibility of the oceanic methane hydrate production by depressurization. However, the gas production rate was still far from the economical utilization level. Therefore, this study focused on the enhanced gas recovery from the methane hydrate reservoir in the Nankai Through using a vertical well by depressurization. A geological model simulating the real oceanic methane hydrate reservoir was built first, and numerical simulations of gas production using two special production strategies (i.e., the aggressive depressurization and permeability improvement) were carried out for a period of 5 years to verify the enhanced effects on the gas recovery. Based on the simulation results, it was found that the middle low-permeability silt-dominated layers played an important part in the processes of the hydrate dissociation and gas production from the methane hydrate reservoir in the Nankai Through. The aggressive depressurization only had a limited effect on the increase in gas production, while the method of the permeability improvement was more efficient for the enhanced gas recovery than the aggressive depressurization. In the future field test, if these two methods can be combined, the gas recovery is expected to be further enhanced. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
