Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 285, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116466
Keywords
Methane hydrate; Shenhu Area; Gas production; Permeability enhancement; Hydrate reformation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51776030, 51436003]
- PetroChina Innovation Foundation [2017D-5007-0210]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [DUT18ZD207]
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In 2017, a successful offshore methane hydrate production test was conducted at well SHSC-4 in the Shenhu Area of the South China Sea, but the long-term gas production behavior remains unknown and further investigation is required. In this study, a multi-layered methane hydrate reservoir model was built based on the actual geological conditions at this site, and long-term simulations were conducted to predict hydrate dissociation and gas production behaviors in the reservoir, revealing that the majority of gas production originated from the free gas layer, followed by methane gas released from hydrate dissociation, while the three-phase layer contributed the least to gas recovery.
In 2017, an offshore methane hydrate production test was successfully conducted at well SHSC-4 in the Shenhu Area of the South China Sea, but the long-term gas production behavior is still unknown and requires further investigation. In this study, a multi-layered methane hydrate reservoir model with three sublayers of the hydrate-bearing layer (HBL), three-phase layer (TPL), and free gas layer (FGL) was built based on the actual geological conditions at this site, and a short-term simulation was initially conducted to verify the validity of the reservoir model. Afterwards, the long-term simulations were conducted to predict the hydrate dissociation and gas production behaviors in the reservoir and investigate the contributions of each sublayer to the total gas production, and the effects of the intrinsic permeability of each sublayer on the gas production were fully examined. The simulation results indicated that the average gas production rate (1.83 x 10(3) ST m(3)/d) was less than half of that confirmed during the 2017 Shenhu production test (5.15 x 10(3) ST m(3)/d). The majority of the total gas production originated from the free gas in the FGL (56.5%), followed by the methane gas released from hydrate dissociation in the HBL (24.1%), and the TPL contributed the least to the gas recovery (19.4%). In addition, if the method of permeability enhancement was applied to the methane hydrate reservoir at well SHSC-4, the gas production could be greatly promoted, but the mechanisms were different. Finally, the following application priority was recommended: HBL > FGL > TPL.
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