Borehole to Laboratory Programmes

Borehole to Laboratory Programmes

At the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH) in Denver, USA, both Geotek Limited and Geotek Coring presented and exhibited to the Gas Hydrate Community. Attendees ranging from industrial scientists and engineers, to academic researchers, all came together to review developments of gas hydrate resource, and to attempt to anticipate near-future projections.

Our exhibition booth was overseen by Managing Director, Tony Bosely, where attendees were able to learn about the pressure coring analysis programmes for gas hydrates, as well as the unconventional resource programmes that Geotek Limited and Geotek Coring can offer.

Peter Schultheiss delivered a talk updating the conference on the diverse, growing range of equipment and services that are available to the Gas Hydrate community for research and resource development.

Melanie Holland produced a poster which gave a summary of the core and pressure core analysis data of Geotek’s two recent gas hydrate expeditions for the Chinese Government in the South China Sea.

Another poster created and presented by Nikolaus Bigalke demonstrated the advanced geomechanical analyses of these Shenhu gas-hydrate-bearing sediments under pressure, showing a relationship between physical properties and gas hydrate content of sediments.

A last-minute addition was also provided from us, showcasing the Gulf of Mexico Expedition-1 that we recently took a significant role in. Large-scale X-ray CT slabs of each core collected under pressure were presented, along with the non-destructive data collected in Pressure Core Analysis and Transfer Systems (PCATS).

Here are the papers and posters that were presented.

Papers:

Liang et al. 2017. Laboratory Quantification of Geomechanical Properties of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments in the Shenhu Area of the South China Sea at In-Situ Conditions

Yang et al. 2017. Concentrated Gas Hydrate in the Shenhu Area, South China Sea: Results From Drilling Expeditions GMGS3 & GMGS4

Schultheiss et al. 2017. Advances in Wireline Pressure Coring, Core Handling, and Core Analysis Related to Gas Hydrate Drilling Investigations

Posters:

Liang et al 2017. Laboratory Quantifcation of Geomechanical Properties of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments in the Shenhu Area of the South China Sea at In-Situ Conditions

Flemings et al. 2017. Gas Hydrate Pressure Cores from Expedition UT-GOM2-01, Gulf of Mexico, May 2017

Yang et al. 2017. Concentrated Gas Hydrate in the Shenhu Area, South China Sea: Results From Drilling Expeditions GMGS3 & GMGS4

Schultheiss et al. 2017 Pressure Cores: From Borehole to Laboratory

To find out more on Geotek at the ICGH9, please contact info@geotek.co.uk