• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.216-219
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• 2008

As a future clean substitute energy, the Gas hydrate development projects are world widely carried out to prepare the shortage of petroleum and natural gas resources. The OIIP of gas hydrate is estimated approximately 10 Trillion LNG equivalent ton and it reaches almost the amount of 5 thousand years use for the world people. To develop the commercial production technology, several research projects like Malik and Alaska project have been carried by several advanced countries and teams, but nobody have succeeded it yet due to the technical problems and the high risks. The technologies developed up to now for the hydrate production are categorized to four methods, such as depressurization method, thermal recovery method, inhibitor injection method and replacement method. As these methods are highly related to the costs and the environmental problems, many other researches including the safety, environment and disaster prevention are actively fulfilled as well.

• The Korean Journal of Petroleum Geology
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• v.7 no.1_2 s.8
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• pp.1-6
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• 1999

Natural gas hydrate, a solid compound of natural gas (mainly methane) and water in the low temperature and high pressure, is widely distributed in permafrost region and deep sea sediments. Gas hydrate stability field (GHSF), which corresponds to the conditions of a stable existence of solid gas hydrate without dissociation, depends on temperature, pressure, and composition of gas and interstitial water. Gas hydrate-saturated sediment are easily recognized by the bottom simulating reflector (BSR), a strong-amplitude sea bottom-mimic reflector in seismic profiles. It is known that BSR is associated with the basal boundary of the GHSF, The purpose of this study is to define the GHSF and its occurrence in the southwestern part of Ulleung Basin, East Sea. The hydrothermal gradient is measured using the expandable bathythermograph (XBT) and the geothermal gradient data are utilized from previous drilling results for the adjacent area. By the laboratory work using methane and NaCl $3.0 wt{\%}$ solution, it is shown that the equilibrium pressures of the gas hydrate reach to 2,920.2 kPa at 274.15 K and to 18,090 kPa at 289.95 K for the study area. Consequently, it is interpreted that the lower boundary of the GHSF is about 210 m beneath 400-m-deep sea bottom and about 480 m beneath 1,100-m-deep sea bottom. The resultant boundary is well matched with the depth of the BSR obtained from the seismic data analysis for the study area.