Review of progress in evaluating gas hydrate drilling hazards

被引:172
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作者
McConnell, Daniel R. [1 ]
Zhang, Zijian [1 ,2 ]
Boswell, Ray [3 ]
机构
[1] Fugro GeoConsulting, Houston, TX USA
[2] Univ Houston, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, Houston, TX USA
[3] Natl Energy Technol Lab, Morgantown, WV USA
关键词
Gas hydrate; Shallow gas; Geohazards; JIP Leg II; GC955; Seismic interpretation; GREEN CANYON 955; METHANE HYDRATE; SEISMIC DATA; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENTS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ISKENDERUN BAY; SHALLOW GAS; DEEP-WATER; GULF;
D O I
10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.010
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Shallow drilling hazard assessment consists of geological/geophysical review of drill sites to enable the avoidance or effective mitigation of problems that can affect the safe drilling of the "top-hole" section of wells. Primary seafloor hazards include infrastructure, hardgrounds, chemosynthetic communities, and areas of high slope or potential seafloor instability. Shallow subsurface hazards include strata that may contain overpressured water, free gas, or gas hydrate. Among these issues, the potential hazards posed by gas hydrate have historically been the most difficult to quantify and constrain. This paper reviews the history of gas hydrate shallow hazard assessment, much of which has been framed by difficulties in remote detection and quantification of typical low-saturation, mud-hosted hydrate occurrences. Recent drilling results indicate that such accumulations can be safely drilled using existing industry protocols. However, assessment of drilling hazards associated with high saturation, sand-hosted hydrates warrant further investigation, and therefore was a key focus of the Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Joint Industry Project Leg II (JIP Leg II) program conducted in 2009. Pre-drill site hazard assessment for JIP Leg II utilized standard industry methods in which geohazards associated with gas hydrate and free gas were identified in a primarily-qualitative manner using seismic amplitude analysis, seismic stratigraphic interpretation, and geo-pressure analysis. While these methods can reliably detect shallow hydrocarbons, including highly-concentrated gas hydrates, they are not sufficient to determine if free gas may exist below gas hydrate, particularly where they occur in close vertical succession. Such undetected free gas occurrences can pose potential drilling hazards that can be quantitatively assessed using advanced seismic methods. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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