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Title: Simulation of Gas Production from Multilayered Hydrate-Bearing Media with Fully Coupled Flow, Thermal, Chemical and Geomechanical Processes Using TOUGH + Millstone. Part 1: Numerical Modeling of Hydrates

Abstract

TOUGH + Millstone has been developed for the analysis of coupled flow, thermal and geomechanical processes associated with the formation and/or dissociation of CH4-hydrates in geological media. It is composed of two constituent codes: (a) a significantly enhanced version of the TOUGH + HYDRATE simulator, V2.0, that accounts for all known flow, physical, thermodynamic and chemical processes associated with the behavior of hydrate-bearing systems undergoing changes and includes the most recent advances in the description of the system properties, coupled seamlessly with (b) Millstone V1.0, a new code that addresses the conceptual, computational and mathematical shortcomings of earlier codes used to describe the geomechanical response of these systems. The capabilities of TOUGH + Millstone are demonstrated in the simulation and analysis of the system flow, thermal and geomechanical behavior during gas production from a realistic complex offshore hydrate deposit. In the first paper of this series, we discuss the physics underlying the T + H hydrate simulator, the constitutive relationships describing the physical, chemical (equilibrium and kinetic) and thermal processes, the states of the CH4+ H2O system and the sources of critically important data, as well as the mathematical approaches used for the development of the of mass and energy balance equations and their solution. Finally, we providemore » verification examples of the hydrate code against numerical results from the simulation of laboratory and field experiments.« less

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  1. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1581348
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Transport in Porous Media
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 128; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0169-3913
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; methane hydrates; reservoir simulation; geomechanics; coupled processes

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Moridis, George J., Queiruga, Alejandro F., and Reagan, Matthew T. Simulation of Gas Production from Multilayered Hydrate-Bearing Media with Fully Coupled Flow, Thermal, Chemical and Geomechanical Processes Using TOUGH + Millstone. Part 1: Numerical Modeling of Hydrates. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/s11242-019-01254-6.
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Moridis, George J., Queiruga, Alejandro F., & Reagan, Matthew T. Simulation of Gas Production from Multilayered Hydrate-Bearing Media with Fully Coupled Flow, Thermal, Chemical and Geomechanical Processes Using TOUGH + Millstone. Part 1: Numerical Modeling of Hydrates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-019-01254-6
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Moridis, George J., Queiruga, Alejandro F., and Reagan, Matthew T. Tue . "Simulation of Gas Production from Multilayered Hydrate-Bearing Media with Fully Coupled Flow, Thermal, Chemical and Geomechanical Processes Using TOUGH + Millstone. Part 1: Numerical Modeling of Hydrates". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-019-01254-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1581348.
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@article{osti_1581348,
title = {Simulation of Gas Production from Multilayered Hydrate-Bearing Media with Fully Coupled Flow, Thermal, Chemical and Geomechanical Processes Using TOUGH + Millstone. Part 1: Numerical Modeling of Hydrates},
author = {Moridis, George J. and Queiruga, Alejandro F. and Reagan, Matthew T.},
abstractNote = {TOUGH + Millstone has been developed for the analysis of coupled flow, thermal and geomechanical processes associated with the formation and/or dissociation of CH4-hydrates in geological media. It is composed of two constituent codes: (a) a significantly enhanced version of the TOUGH + HYDRATE simulator, V2.0, that accounts for all known flow, physical, thermodynamic and chemical processes associated with the behavior of hydrate-bearing systems undergoing changes and includes the most recent advances in the description of the system properties, coupled seamlessly with (b) Millstone V1.0, a new code that addresses the conceptual, computational and mathematical shortcomings of earlier codes used to describe the geomechanical response of these systems. The capabilities of TOUGH + Millstone are demonstrated in the simulation and analysis of the system flow, thermal and geomechanical behavior during gas production from a realistic complex offshore hydrate deposit. In the first paper of this series, we discuss the physics underlying the T + H hydrate simulator, the constitutive relationships describing the physical, chemical (equilibrium and kinetic) and thermal processes, the states of the CH4+ H2O system and the sources of critically important data, as well as the mathematical approaches used for the development of the of mass and energy balance equations and their solution. Finally, we provide verification examples of the hydrate code against numerical results from the simulation of laboratory and field experiments.},
doi = {10.1007/s11242-019-01254-6},
journal = {Transport in Porous Media},
number = 2,
volume = 128,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: CH4-hydrate: relationship of the equilibrium hydration pressure Pe to the temperature T (Moridis, 2003)
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