M. K. Khasanov

The features of gas hydrate dissociation in porous media at warm gas injection

Results of numerical simulation of warm gas injection into a porous medium initially saturated with gas and gas hydrate, accompanied by gas hydrate dissociation, are presented. It is shown that depending on parameters at the outer boundary of the medium (permeable or impermeable to the gas flow) hydrate dissociation can occur both at the frontal boundary and in the extended region.

Specific features of the formation of gas hydrates during the injection of a cold gas into a porous medium saturated with a gas and water

A mathematical model of the process of the formation of gas hydrates in a porous medium during the injection of a cold gas is presented. The cases where hydrate formation is limited by the kinetics of the process and heat and mass transfer in a porous medium are considered. The influence of the initial parameters of the porous medium and the intensity of the gas injection on the dynamics of the processes of hydrate formation is studied. The critical conditions that separate the different modes of hydrate formation are found.

Investigation of regimes of gas hydrate formation in a porous medium, partially saturated with ice

The features of gas hydrate formation at gas injection into a porous medium, initially filled with gas and ice, are investigated. The self-similar solutions to the single-dimensional problem, describing distribution of the main parameters in a layer, were derived. It is shown that there are the solutions, according to which the gas hydrate formation can occur in three different regimes. The critical diagrams for such regimes are plotted.

Numerical modeling of formation of a gas hydrate in a finite-length porous bed purged by a gas

The process of formation of a gas hydrate in a finite-length porous medium partially saturated with water, which is purged by a cold gas, is studied. The influence of the initial parameters of the porous medium and purging conditions on the evolution of hydrate saturation and temperature is examined.

Injection of liquid carbon dioxide into a reservoir partially saturated with methane hydrate

A mathematical model is proposed to describe methane–carbon dioxide replacement in gas hydrate by injecting liquid carbon dioxide into a porous medium initially saturated with methane and its hydrate. Self-similar solutions of the axisymmetric problems are constructed that describe the distribution of the main parameters of the reservoir. It is shown that there exist solutions according to which the process can occur both with and without boiling of carbon dioxide. Diagrams of the existence of each type of solution are constructed.

On the theory of formation of gas hydrate in partially water-saturated porous medium when injecting methane

We present a planar one-dimensional theoretical model and numerical solutions for the process of the formation of methane gas hydrate by injecting gas into a porous reservoir partially saturated with water. The case where the intensity of formation of the gas hydrate is limited by the diffusion of gas through a hydrate layer formed between water and gas in the pore channel core is considered. Within this process, the kinetics of hydrate formation is determined by empirical parameter D, having the dimension of a diffusion coefficient (m2/s). The effect of the value of this parameter on the characteristics of the hydrate formation process is studied depending on the parameters that determine the initial state of the porous reservoir and its porosity and permeability characteristics. The equilibrium mechanism of hydrate formation is considered, which is a limit adopted by the diffusion pattern that corresponds to the case of D → ∞.

Recovery of Methane From Gas Hydrates in a Porous Medium by Injection of Carbon Dioxide

This paper presents a mathematical model for methane hydrate–carbon dioxide replacement by injection of carbon dioxide gas into a porous medium rich in methane and its gas hydrate. Numerical solutions describing the pressure and temperature variation in a reservoir of finite length are obtained. It is shown that the replacement process is accompanied by a decrease in pressure and an increase in temperature of the porous medium. It is established that during the time of complete replacement of methane from a reservoir decreases with increasing permeability of the porous medium and the pressure of the injected gas.

Erratum to: “Recovery of Methane From Gas Hydrates in a Porous Medium by Injection of Carbon Dioxide”

In the original publication, the author’s affilation was misspelled.It should read “Ufa State Petroleum Technological University” instead of “Ufa State Oil Technical University.”

Injection of carbon dioxide into a reservoir saturated with methane and water

This paper presents a mathematical model for the injection of carbon dioxide into a natural gas reservoir saturated with methane and water accompanied by the formation of carbon dioxide hydrate in an extended region. The dependence of the coordinates of the boundaries of the region of phase transitions on the pressure of the injected gas and the initial parameters of the reservoir are investigated. It is established that the velocity of the near boundary of the region of hydrate formation decreases with increasing water saturation and initial temperature of the reservoir and the velocity of the far boundary of the region of phase transitions increases with increasing pressure of the injected gas and reservoir permeability. It is shown that at high initial temperatures of the reservoir, a regime is possible in which replacement of methane by carbon dioxide without hydrate formation occurs at the far interface, and at the near interface, water is completely incorporated into gas hydrate.

Regimes of methane recovery from gas hydrate on injection of “warm” carbon dioxide into a porous medium

Specificities of an injection of “warm” liquid carbon dioxide into a porous medium saturated with methane and its gas hydrate are studied using a mathematical model presented in this work. The release of methane from gas hydrate during injection can proceed in two different regimes. In the first regime, the injection is accompanied by the replacement of methane with carbon dioxide in methane hydrate without the release of free water. In the second one, the injection is accompanied by the decomposition of methane hydrate into methane and water and by the formation of carbon dioxide gas hydrate. For each regime, selfsimilar solutions are constructed and critical conditions separating these regimes are found.