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
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| 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 |