Rock physics modeling for assessing gas hydrate and free gas: A case study in the cascadia accretionary prism

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 109-119

  Sain, Kalachand ^a   Ghosh, Ranjana ^a   Ojha, Maheswar ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

BSR; Effective medium theory; Pressure core; Reference velocity; Rock physics model

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DRILLING; ESTIMATION; GASES; HYDRATION; NATURAL GAS WELL DRILLING; PRISMS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTIVE MEDIUMS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FREE GAS CONCENTRATIONS; GAS HYDRATE SATURATIONS; REFERENCE VELOCITY; ROCK PHYSICS MODEL; SELF-CONSISTENT APPROXIMATION; SMOOTHING APPROXIMATION;

GAS HYDRATES;

EID: 77952626133     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: 15730581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-010-9086-9     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Ahlbrandt TS (2002) Future petroleum energy resources of the world. Int Geol Rev 44:1092–1104
2. Archie GE (1942) The electrical resistivity log as a aid in determining some reservoir characteristics. J Petro Tech 5:1–8
3. Bahr A, Bohrmann G, Teichert BMA. (2008) Data report: bulk mineralogical composition of Cascadia margin sediments. In: Riedel M, Collett T S, Malone MJ, the Expedition 311 Scientists (eds) Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 311: 1–14
4. Bangs NLB, Sawyer DS, Golovchenko X (1993) Free gas at the base of the gas hydrate zone in the vicinity of the Chile triple junction. Geology 21:905–908
5. Chand S, Minshull TA, Gei D, Carcione JM (2004) Elastic velocity models for gas hydrate-bearing sediments-a comparison. Geophys J Int 159:573–590
6. Collett TS, Ladd J (2000) Detection of gas hydrate with downhole logs and assessment of gas hydrate concentrations (saturations) and gas volumes on the Blake Ridge with electrical resistivity log data. In: Paull CK, Matsumoto R, Wallace PJ, Dillon WP (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific results 164: 179–191
7. Collett T, Riedel M, Cochran J, Boswell R, Presley J, Kumar P, Sathe A, Sethi A, Lall M, Sibal V, the NGHP Expedition 01 Scientists (2008) Indian National Gas hydrate Program Expedition 01 initial Reports, DGH, India
8. Cook A, Goldberg D (2008) Stress and gas hydrate-filled fracture distribution, Krishna- Godavari basin, India. In: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Gas Hydrates, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 6–10
9. Dai J, Xu H, Snyder F, Dutta N (2004) Detection and estimation of gas hydrates using rock physics and seismic inversion: Examples from the northern deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Leading Edge 23:60–66
10. Dai J, Banik N, Gillespie D, Dutta N (2008a) Exploration for gas hydrates in the deepwater, northern Gulf of Mexico: Part II. Model validation by drilling. Mar Petro Geol 25:845–859
11. Dai J, Snyder F, Gillespie D, Koesoemadinata A, Dutta N (2008b) Exploration for gas hydrates in the deepwater, northern Gulf of Mexico: Part I. A seismic approach based on geologic model, inversion, and rock physics principles.Mar Petro Geol 25:830–844
12. Dvorkin J, Nur A (1993) Rock physics for characterization of gas hydrate. In: Howell DG (ed) The future of energy gases: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1570: 293–298
13. Dvorkin J, Prasad M, Sakai A, Lavoie D (1999) Elasticity of marine sediments: rock physicsmodeling. GeophysRes Lett 26:1781–1784
14. Dvorkin J, Nur A, Uden R, Taner T (2003) Rock physics of a gas hydrate reservoirs. The Leading Edge 22:842–846
15. Ecker C, Dvorkin J, Nur A (1998) Sediments with gas hydrate: internal structure from seismic AVO. Geophysics 63:1659–1669
16. Ecker C, Dvorkin J, Nur A (2000) Estimating the amount of gas hydrate and free gas from marine seismic data. Geophysics 65:565–573
17. Ghosh R, Sain K, Ojha M (2010) Effective medium modeling of gas hydrate-filled fractures using sonic log in the Krishna-Godavari basin, eastern Indian offshore, J Geophys Res 115. doi: 10.1029/2009JB006711 (in press)
18. Guerin G, Goldberg D, Meltser A (1999) Characterization of in situ elastic properties of gas hydrate-bearing sediments on the Blake Ridge. J Geophys Res 104:17,781–17795
19. Helgerud MB (2001) Wave speeds in gas hydrate and sediments containing gas hydrate: a laboratory and modeling study. Dissertation, Stanford University
20. Helgerud MB, Dvorkin J, Nur A (1999) Elastic-wave velocity in marine sediments with gas hydrates: effective medium modeling. Geophys Res Lett 26:2021–2024
21. Holland M, Schultheiss P, Roberts J, Druce M (2008) Observed gas hydrate morphologies in marine sediments. In: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Gas Hydrates, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 6–10
22. Hornby BE, Schwartz LM, Hudson JA (1994) Anisotropic effective medium modeling of the elastic properties of shales. Geophysics 59:1570–1583
23. Hyndman RD, Spence GD (1992) A seismic study of methane hydrate marine bottom simulating reflectors. J Geophys Res 97:6683–6698
24. Hyndman RD, Spence GD, Yuan T, Davis EE (1994) Regional geophysics and structural framework of the Vancouver Island margin accretionary prism. In: Westbrook G K, Carson B, Musgrave RJ et al. (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, initial reports 146 (Part 1): 399–419
25. Hyndman RD, Yuan T, Moran K (1999) The concentration of deep sea gas hydrates from downhole electrical resistivity logs and laboratory data. Earth Plan Sci Lett 172:167–177
26. Jakobsen M, Hudson JA, Minshull TA, Singh SC (2000) Elastic properties of hydrate-bearing sediments using effective medium theory. J Geophys Res 105:561–577
27. Kastner M, Claypool G, Robertson G (2008) Geochemical constraints on the origin of the pore fluids and gas hydrate distribution at Atwater Valley and Keathley Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico. Mar Petro Geol 25:860–872
28. Klauda JB, Sandler SI (2005) Global distribution of methane hydrate in ocean sediment. Energy and Fuels 19:459–470
29. Kumar D, Dash R, Dewangan P (2009) Methods of gas hydrate concentration estimationwith field examples. Geohorizons 14:76–86
30. Kvenvolden KA (1998a) A primer on the geological occurrence of gas hydrate, In: Henriet, JP, Mienert J (eds) Gas hydrates: relevance to the world margin stability and climate change. Geol Soc, Special Publications 37, London, pp 9–30
31. Kvenvolden KA (1998b) Methane hydrate—a major reservoir of carbon in the shallow geosphere? Chem Geol 71:41–51
32. Lee MW (2002) Biot-Gassmann theory for velocities of gas hydrate bearing sediments. Geophysics 67:1711–1719
33. Lee MW, Collett TS (1999) Amount of gas hydrate estimated from compressional and shear wave velocities at the JAPEX/JNOC/ GSC MAllik 2L-38 Gas hydrate Research Well. In: Dallimore SR, Uchida T, Collett TS (eds) Scientific results from JAPEX/ JNOC/GSC MAllik 2L-38 Gas hydrate Research Well, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geol Sur Can Bull 544:313–322
34. Lee MW, Collett TS (2001) Comparison of elastic velocity models for gas hydrate-bearing sediments, In: Paull CK, Dillon WP (eds) Natural gas hydrates: occurrence, distribution and detection, American Geophysical Union Geophysical monograph, vol 124, pp 179–188, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC
35. Lee MW, Collett TS (2008) Integrated analysis of well logs and seismic data to estimate gas hydrate concentrations at Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Mar Petro Geol 25:924–931
36. Lee MW, Hutchinson DR, Collett TS, Dillon WP (1996) Seismic velocities for hydrate-bearing sediments using weighted equation. J Geophys Res 101:20.347–20.358
37. MacKay ME, Jarrad RD, Westbrook GK, Hyndman RD (1994) Origin of bottom simulating reflectors: geophysical evidence from the Cascadia accretionary prism. Geology 22:459–462
38. Makogon YF, Holditch SA, Makogon TY (2007) Natural gas hydrates—a potential energy source for the 21st Century. J Petro Sci Eng 56:14–31
39. Malinverno A, Kastner M, Torres ME, Wortmann UG (2008) Gas hydrate occurrence from pore water chlorinity and downhole logs in a transect across the northern Cascadia margin (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 311). J Geophys Res 113:B08103. doi:10.1029/2008JB005702
40. Mavko GT, Mukherji T, Dvorkin J (1998) The rock physics handbook-tools for seismic analysis in porous media. Cambridge University Press, New York
41. Milkov AV (2004) Global estimates of hydrate-bound gas in marine sediments: howmuch is really out there? Earth Sci Rev 66:183–197
42. Miller JJ, Lee MW, von Huene R (1991) An analysis of a seismic reflection from the base of a gas hydrate zone, offshore Peru. AAPG Bull 75:910–924
43. Nishizawa O (1982) Seismic velocity anisotropy in a medium containing oriented cracks: Transversely isotropic case. J Phys Earth 30:331–347
44. Ojha M, Sain K(2008)Appraisal of gas hydrate/free gas fromVP/VS ratio in the Makran accretionary prism. Mar Petro Geol 25:637–644
45. Pecher IA, Holbrook WS, Sen MK, Lizarralde D, Wood WT (2003) Seismic anisotropy in gas hydrate-and gas-bearing sediments on the Blake ridge, from a walk away vertical seismic profile. Geophys Res Lett 30:1733. doi:10.1029/2003GL017477
46. Petersen CJ, Papenberg C, Klaeschen D (2007) Local seismic quantification of gas hydrates and BSR characterization from multi-frequency OBS data at northern Hydrate Ridge. Earth Plan Sci Lett 255:414–431
47. Riedel M, Willoughby EC, Chen MA, He T, Novosel I, Schwalenberg K, Hyndman RD, Spence GD, Chapman NR, Edwards RN (2006) Gas hydrate on the northern Cascadia margin: regional geophysics and structural frame work. In: Riedel M, Collett TS, Malone MJ, the Expedition 311 Scientists (eds) Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 311: 1–28
48. Sakai A (1999) Velocity analysis of vertical seismic profile (VSP) survey at JAPEX/JNOC/GSC MAllik 2L-38 Gas hydrate Research Well, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada, In: Dallimore SR, Uchida T, Collett TS (eds) Geol Sur Can Bull 544:323–340
49. Sayers CM (1994) The elastic anisotropy of shales. J Geophys Res B1 99:767–774
50. Expedition 311 Scientists (2006) Site U1327. In: Riedel M, Collett, TS, Malone MJ, and the Expedition 311 Scientists. Proceedings of IODP, 311: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.)
51. Sheng P (1990) Effective medium theory of sedimentary rocks. Phys Rev B 41:4507–4512
52. Sheng P (1991) Consistent modeling of the electrical and elastic properties of sedimentary rocks. Geophysics 56(8):1236–1243
53. Singh SC, Minshull TA, Spence GD (1993) Velocity structure of a gas hydrate reflector. Science 260:204–207
54. Sloan ED (1998) Clathrate hydrate of natural gases. Marcel Dekker, New York
55. Sloan ED (2003) Fundamental principles and applications of natural gas hydrates. Nature 426:353–359
56. Spangenberg E (2001) Modeling of the influence of gas hydrate content on the electrical properties of porous sediments. J Geophys Res 106:6535–6548
57. Tinivella U (2002) The seismic response to overpressure versus gas hydrate and free gas concentration. J Seis Expl 11:283–305
58. Westbrook GK, Carson B, Musgrave RJ et al. (1994) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, initial reports 146 (Part 1): College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program)
59. Willis JR (1977) Bounds of self-consistent estimates for the overall properties of anisotropic composites. J Mech Phys Solids 25:185–202
60. Wood WT, Stoffa PL, Shipley TH (1994) Quantitative detection of methane hydrate through high-resolution seismic velocity analysis. J Geophys Res 99:9681–9695
61. Xu H, Dai J, Snyder F, Dutta N (2004) Seismic detection and quantification of gas hydrates using rock physics and inversion. In: Taylor CE, Kwan JT (eds) Advances in Gas Hydrates Research. Kluwer, New York, pp 117–139
62. Yuan T, Hyndman RD, Spence GD, Desmons B (1996) Seismic velocity increase and deep-sea gas hydrate concentration above a bottom simulating reflector on the northern Cascadia continental slope. J Geophys Res 101:13655–13671
63. Yun TS, Francisca FM, Santamarina JC, Ruppel C (2005) Compressional and shear wave velocities in uncemented sediment containing gas hydrate. Geophys Res Lett 32:L10609. doi: 10.1029/2005GL022607