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Modeling the mechanical response of gas hydrate reservoirs in triaxial stress space
Affiliation:1. School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China;2. Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Ministry of Land and Resources, Guangzhou, China;3. Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan;4. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA;1. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan;2. Key Lab. of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;3. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan;1. State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, PR China;2. Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, PR China;1. Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Japan;2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan;1. Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China;2. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Abstract:Exploitation of gas from deep-sea methane hydrate-bearing layers might lead to some geological disasters, including marine landslides and excessive settlement of marine ground. The first offshore gas production tests for methane hydrate-bearing sediments were carried out in eastern Nankai Trough. However, knowledge on mechanical behavior of gas hydrate reservoirs with similar gradation and minerology component to the marine sediment is still insufficient. Consequently, proper modeling of geomechanical properties of methane hydrate-bearing sediments is crucial for reservoir simulation and deep ocean ground stability analysis for long-term gas production in the future. This study conducted a series of triaxial shear tests to examine the shear response of methane hydrate-bearing sediments with a similar grading curve and minerology components to the hydrate-rich sediments in Nankai Trough. The test results demonstrated that the presence of hydrate mass between sand grains altered the stress-strain pattern from strain-hardening to postpeak strain-softening. A simple constitutive model based on several empirical relationships of granular materials is proposed to describe the stress-strain relationship of methane hydrate-bearing sediments under triaxial stress condition. This model can reproduce the enhancement of shear strength, initial stiffness, and dilation behavior of methane hydrate-bearing sediments containing different amounts of fines content with a rise in the methane hydrate saturation at a wide range of effective confining pressures. The numerical results indicate that the parameter A associated with initial stiffness of stress-strain curve and the parameter α related with dilation properties are jointly governed by the confining pressure, fines content, and hydrate saturation.
Keywords:Gas hydrate  Mechanical property  Bonding stress  Constitutive model  Hydrate saturation
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