Site Selection for DOE/JIP Gas Hydrate Drilling in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- USGS
- McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Navi Mumbai, India
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Uttaranchal, INDIA
Studies of geologic and geophysical data from the offshore of India have revealed two geologically distinct areas with inferred gas hydrate occurrences: the passive continental margins of the Indian Peninsula and along the Andaman convergent margin. The Indian National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP) Expedition 01 was designed to study the occurrence of gas hydrate off the Indian Peninsula and along the Andaman convergent margin with special emphasis on understanding the geologic and geochemical controls on the occurrence of gas hydrate in these two diverse settings. NGHP Expedition 01 established the presence of gas hydrates in Krishna- Godavari, Mahanadi and Andaman basins. The expedition discovered one of the richest gas hydrate accumulations yet documented (Site 10 in the Krishna-Godavari Basin), documented the thickest and deepest gas hydrate stability zone yet known (Site 17 in Andaman Sea), and established the existence of a fully-developed gas hydrate system in the Mahanadi Basin (Site 19).
- Research Organization:
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec, Canada); Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR; Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., India)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (India), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); Consortium for Scientific Methane Hydrate Investigations (CSMHI) led by Overseas Drilling, Limited (ODL) and FUGRO McClelland Marine, Geosciences (FUGRO); USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- None cited
- OSTI ID:
- 936574
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-IR-2008-204; NETL-TPR-2159; TRN: US200818%%873
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 6-10, 2008
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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