Projects
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| Reference Number | EP/D035996/1 | |
| Title | ASSESSING THE OCCURRENCE AND QUANTITY OF DEEP-OCEAN METHANE HYDRATES / THE IMPACT OF HYDRATE ON THE STIFFNESS AND SEISMIC PROPERTIES OF SEDIMENT | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Other oil and gas) 50%; Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Enhanced oil and gas production) 50%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor C Clayton No email address given School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 December 2005 | |
| End Date | 30 November 2008 | |
| Duration | 36 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £207,176 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Construction; Energy | |
| Region | South East | |
| Programme | Process Environment and Sustainability | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor C Clayton , School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton (99.998%) |
| Other Investigator | Dr AI (Angus ) Best , National Oceanographic Centre, NERC (0.001%) Dr A Zervos , School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton (0.001%) |
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| Recognised Researcher | Dr JA (Jeff ) Priest , Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | Methane gas hydrates are solid, ice-like compounds formed from water and natural gas (methane) under certain pressure and temperature conditions. These conditions naturally occur in deep water (>500m) oceanic sediments, leading to large volumes of methane gas being stored within the hydrate structure. Gas hydrates can be changed back to their individual constituents of gas and water though changes in pressure or temperature. Therefore hydrates are of major interest as a potential energy resource, but also as a hazard for drilling activities because they can be destabilised by such activities, and such destabilisation may weaken the seafloor. This can lead to subsidence of platforms or at the other extreme large sea bottom slope failures. This project aims to improve the detection and characterisation of methane gas hydrates in sediments through laboratory testing and the development of theoretical models. These will help us understand the relationship between physical properties and hydrate content, as well as a more robust assessment into the risk that gas hydrate destabilisation may pose to oil drilling activities | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 20/03/12 | |
