Gas Hydrate Exploitation, Sediment Strength, and Slope Instability Along Continental Margins I (EMD/SEPM)
Room C147/148/154
Co-Chairs: T. S. Collett, C. Knapp, and C. Lutken
8:00 -- Introductory Remarks
8:05 -- S. A. Holditch, E. Jones: Gas Hydrates in the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico – A Status Report of the ChevronTexaco JIP – DOE Research
8:25 -- M. A. Smith, W. W. Shedd: Effects of Gas Hydrate on Seafloor and Borehole Stability in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico – Seismic Prediction and Drilling Results
8:45 -- C. Cranganu, B. Nitzov: The Outlook for Gas Hydrates in the Western Black Sea: Technology and Economics
9:05 -- T. S. Collett, D. S. Goldberg, A. Janik, G. Guerin: Occurrence of Gas Hydrate and Associated Free-Gas Accumulations on Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon, USA
9:25 -- R. A. ". George: AUV Investigation of Bush Hill and Bush Lite Sites
9:45 -- Break
10:00 -- F. Abegg, J. Freitag, G. Bohrmann, W. Brueckmann: Free Gas and Gas Hydrate: Proof of the Coexistence in Marine Environment and Implication for the Hydrate Formation
10:20 -- L. Stern, W. Durham, S. Kirby, S. Circone, M. Helgerud: Experimental Observations Pertinent to the Mechanical and Thermal Stability of sI Methane Hydrate/Sand Aggregates
10:40 -- R. E. Rogers, C. E. Woods, T. Ding, G. Zhang, J. L. Dearman, B. Kelleher: Gas Hydrate Catalysis from Biosurfactants-Bentonite Interactions that Impact Sediment Stability
11:00 -- B. Tohidi, B. Clennell, R. Anderson, J. Yang: Gas Hydrates Studies Using High Pressure Glass Micromodels
11:20 -- W. Xu: Response of Marine Gas Hydrate Systems to Environmental Changes - Role of Hydrate Dissociation