Gas invasion into water-saturated, unconsolidated porous media: Implications for gas hydrate reservoirs

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 188-193

  Fauria, Kristen E ^a,b   Rempel, Alan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Capillary forces; Fracture; Gas hydrates; Gas transport; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE BREAK-UP; CAPILLARY FORCE; EFFECTIVE STRESS; GAS HYDRATE RESERVOIR; GAS PASSAGE; GAS TRANSPORT; GEOPHYSICAL SYSTEMS; LIQUID PRESSURE; OVER-PRESSURES; OVERPRESSURE; PARTICLE CONTACTS; RESERVOIR DYNAMICS; SAND LAYER; SEDIMENT COLUMN; SEDIMENT SURFACE; UNCONSOLIDATED POROUS MEDIA; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; VIDEO DOCUMENTATION; WATER COLUMNS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GASES; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GAS HYDRATES;

BUBBLE; FRACTURE; GAS HYDRATE; GAS TRANSPORT; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OVERPRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 80054999773     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.042     Document Type: Article

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