Salt Diapir‐Driven Recycling of Gas Hydrate

Burton, Zachary F. M.; Dafov, Laura N.

doi:10.1029/2022GC010704

Salt Diapir‐Driven Recycling of Gas Hydrate

Journal Article · Tue May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010704· OSTI ID:1974818

^[1]; Dafov, Laura N. ^[2]

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Stanford University Stanford CA USA, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences University of Idaho Moscow ID USA
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Stanford University Stanford CA USA

Abstract

By harnessing both hypothetical, synthetic basin and gas hydrate (GH) system models and real‐world models of well‐studied salt diapir‐associated GH sites at Green Canyon (Gulf of Mexico) and Blake Ridge (U.S. Atlantic coast), we propose and demonstrate salt movement (and in particular, diapirism) to be a new mechanism for the recycling of marine GH. At Green Canyon, for example, we show that by considering this newly proposed diapir‐driven recycling mechanism in conjunction with previously proposed lithological control on sandy‐reservoir‐hosted hydrate at the base of the GH stability zone (BGHSZ; ∼bottom‐simulating reflector, BSR), modeled GH saturations match drilling data. Overall, salt diapir movement‐induced GH recycling provides a temperature‐driven mechanism by which GH saturations at the BGHSZ may reach >90 vol. % and by which GH volumes near and free gas volumes beneath the BGHSZ may be increased significantly through time. Interestingly, comparison of salt diapir‐driven recycling and sediment burial‐driven recycling scenarios suggests notably higher rates of recycling via diapir‐driven versus burial‐driven processes. Our results suggest that GH and associated free gas accumulations above salt diapir crests represent particularly attractive targets for unconventional and conventional hydrocarbon resource exploration and for scientific and academic drilling expeditions aimed at exploiting GH systems. Salt basins containing GH systems—including passive margin basins of the Gulf of Mexico, southeastern Brazil, and southwestern Africa—are therefore compelling localities for studying salt‐driven GH recycling and for salt diapir‐associated natural gas exploration.

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Journal Information:: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Journal Name: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 24; ISSN 1525-2027

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