Gas production from a promising reservoir of the hydrate with associated and shallow gas layers in the low permeable sediments

Guangrong Jin, Jie Liu, Zheng Su, Chuangji Feng, Sanshan Cheng, Haizhen Zhai and Lihua Liu

Energy, 2024, vol. 295, issue C

Abstract: The gas production rate from hydrate trials is still below commercial criterion. To increase the production rate, a promising geological system consisting of hydrate, associated and shallow gas layers was explored recently. Herein, the gas production of this complex geological system through depressurization was numerically investigated. The result showed a high gas production rate in the first tens day, and a subsequently slow decrease with an increasing water production rate under the immediate depressurization condition. The free gas layer contributed the most of gas production while the least is from hydrate reservoir. For water production, the most was from the associated gas layer and a moderate from hydrate layer. Among all factors, the depressurization rate affected greatly the initial gas rate, and slight depressurization caused a high and stable rate. The permeability, gas saturation and irreducible water saturation of the shallow gas layer affected dramatically the gas rate and obviously the corresponding water rate. Special attention should be paid to the hydrate forming in the shallow gas layer. This hydrate barrier caused a decrease of gas rate when reducing production pressure. The production of the complex system enhances the economic benefit, and it becomes a prospective system of exploration.

Keywords: Natural gas hydrate; Associated gas layer; Shallow gas layer; Joint production; Depressurization rate; Shenhu area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131079

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