| The Earth's store of hydrocarbons will no longer supply adequate energy to its growing economics and population. By then, a type of hydrocarbons called hydrates may be ready to take their place as significant sources of energy. Hydrates are also a special combination of two common substances, water and natural gas. If these meet under conditions in which pressure is high and temperature is low, they join to form a solid, ice-like substance. Vast volumes of sediments in the ocean bottoms and Polar Regions are conducive to hydrate formation.; Gas hydrates are solid, ice-like crystalline materials which contain entrapped gas molecules in the voids of water molecules leading to a tight structure. They occur at temperatures above the freezing point of water; one volume of hydrate could release 150 to 180 volumes of natural gas at standard conditions.; As the need for oil and gas increases, attention toward deposits of natural gas hydrates, the so-called alternative to oil and gas reserves, is also increasing. The conservative estimate of the methane gas hydrate reserve potential of the United States exclusively is high. Until recently, hydrates have been a laboratory topic to study, but the urge towards oil and gas extend their study to the field. The objective of the proposed work is to study the effects of various reservoir properties (well completion, well configuration, hydrate permeability, rock permeability, depth and pressure of the reservoir) on the production of gas. |
