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MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 14-21Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.11.006
Keywords
Natural gas hydrate; Pearl River Mouth (PRM) basin; Raman spectra; Gas composition; Grain size; South China Sea (SCS)
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- Chinese National Natural Sciences Foundation [41376078, 41302034]
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China carried out a drilling campaign in the eastern part of the Pearl River Mouth (PRM) basin and successfully obtained natural gas hydrate samples in 2013. Laboratory based studies for the characteristics of gas hydrate were carried out on one of the hydrate-bearing sediment sample. The gas hydrate sample shows nodular occurrence with host matrix predominantly composed of silty sand and clay. On the basis of the Raman spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction results, the gas hydrate demonstrates a typical structure I (sI) with cage occupancy of methane is more than 99.5% in large cage and 91.4% in small cage, respectively, corresponding to a hydration numbers of 5.90 by thermodynamic calculation. The molecular compositions of hydrate-bound gas suggest that the guest molecules are predominantly methane (>99.9%), with trace amount of ethane (0.04%) and propane (0.01%). The isotopic analysis indicates that the methane of hydrate-bound gas of the studied drilling well in PRM basin is a typical microbial origin. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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