Evaluation of clayed silt properties on the behavior of hydrate production in South China Sea

• 作者: Chang-ling Liu Cheng-feng Li Gao-wei Hu Jian-ye Sun Neng-you Wu Qiang Chen Qing-guo Meng Yan-long Li
• 来源期刊: 中国地质（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Original Articles
• 页码范围: 362-368
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.31035/cg2020050

摘要

Gas hydrate is one kind of potential energy resources that is buried under deep seafloor or frozen areas.The first trial offshore production from the silty reservoir was conducted in the South China Sea by the China Geological Survey (CGS).During this test,there were many unique characteristics different from the sand reservoir,which was believed to be related to the clayed silt physical properties.In this paper,simulation experiments,facilities analysis,and theoretical calculation were used to confirm the hydrate structure,reservoir thermo-physical property,and bond water movement rule.And the behavior of how they affected production efficiency was analyzed.The results showed that: It was reasonable to use the structure Ⅰ rather than structure Ⅱ methane hydrate phase equilibrium data to make the production plan;the dissociation heat absorbed by hydrate was large enough to cause hydrate self-protection or reformation depend on the reservoir thermal transfer and gas supply;clayed silt got better thermal conductivity compared to coarse grain,but poor thermal convection especially with hydrate;clayed silt sediment was easy to bond water,but the irreducible water can be exchanged to free water under high production pressure,and the most obvious pressure range of water increment was 1.9-4.9 MPa.