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Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
| Project Number |
327 |
| Date of Summary |
September 01, 2002 |
| Subject |
Applied Gas Hydrate Research
Program |
| Performing Activity |
Texas A&M Research Foundation |
| Principal Investigator |
Dr. Roger Sassen |
| Contracting Agency |
Minerals Management Service |
| Estimated Completion |
Complete |
| Description |
This is a JIP
designed to disseminate new information to address hazard concerns related
to hydrates and to stimulate new research. Objectives of the research
include: mapping gas hydrates in geophysical context across the Gulf of
Mexico, and analyzing new samples of natural gas hydrate. The focus is on
reservoir characterization, the effects of gas hydrates on sea floor
stability, and on pipeline plugging and potential rupture. |
| Progress |
Gas hydrate and
sediment samples were acquired from the Gulf of Mexico using research
submersibles. Research cores containing gas hydrates were acquired during
piston coring cruises. Intact gas hydrate samples and data were donated by
energy companies. The project is now completed. |
| Report |
AA (614 KB)
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Gas Hydrate-Related
Crude Oil, Atwater Block 425; Biomarkers and Whole-Oil Isotopic analysis,
Texas A&M University, Applied Gas Hydrate Research Program, GERG Technical
Report 99-10, May 27, 1999. |
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AB (227 KB)
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R. Sassen, S.T.
Sweet, A.V. Milkov, D.A. DeFreitas, G.G. Salata, and E.C. McDade, Geology and
Geochemistry Of Gas Hydrates, Central Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope, Gulf
Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, Vol. 1. XLIX, 1999. |
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