Author:
Lobkovsky Leopold I.,Ramazanov Mukamay M.,Semiletov Igor P.,Alekseev Dmitry A.
Abstract
We present a generalization of the mathematical model of gas discharge from frozen rocks containing gas-saturated ice and gas hydrates in a metastable state (due to the self-preservation effect) caused by the drop in external stress associated with various geodynamic factors. These factors can be attributed, for example, to a decrease in hydrostatic pressure on a gas-bearing formation due to glacier melting, causing an isostatic rise, or to the formation of linear depressions in the bottom topography on the shelf due to iceberg ploughing. A change in external pressure can also be associated with seismic and tectonic deformation waves propagating in the lithosphere as a result of ongoing strong earthquakes. Starting from the existing hydrate destruction model, operating at the scale of individual granules, we consider a low-permeable hydrate and ice-saturated horizontal reservoir. Generalization is associated with the introduction of a finite threshold for the external pressure drop, which causes the destruction of the gas hydrate and gas-saturated microcavities of supramolecular size. This makes it possible to take into account the effect of anomalously high pressures occurring in the released gas as a result of partial hydrate dissociation. Numerical and approximate analytical solutions to the problem were found in the self-similar formulation. A parametric study of the solution was carried out, and regularities of the hydrate decomposition process were revealed.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Tomsk State University
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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