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Original Article | Open Access

Stress dependent gas-water relative permeability in gas hydrates: A theoretical model

College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York 10027, USA
Department of Applied Mechanics, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, P.R.China
State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, P.R.China
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Abstract

Research activities are currently being conducted to study multiphase flow in hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS). In this study, in view of the assumption that hydrates are evenly distributed in HBS with two major hydrate-growth patterns, i.e., pore filling hydrates (PF hydrates), wall coating hydrates (WC hydrates) and a combination of the two, a theoretical relative permeability model is proposed for gas-water flow through HBS. Besides, in this proposed model, the change in pore structure (e.g., pore radius) of HBS due to effective stress is taken into account. Then, model validation is performed by comparing the predicted results from the derived model with that from the existing model and test data. By setting the value of hydrate saturation to zero, our derived model can be reducible to the existing model, which demonstrates that the existing model is a special case of our model. The results reveal that, under the same saturation, relative permeability to water Krw (or gas Krg) in PF hydrates is smaller than that in WC hydrates. Moreover, the morphological characteristics of relative permeability curve (relative permeability versus gas saturation) for WC hydrate and PF hydrate are different.

Keywords

Hydrate-bearing sedimentshydrate-growth patternrelative permeabilitystress dependent

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Advances in Geo-Energy Research
Volume 4 Issue 3,
September 2020
Pages 326-338
DOI: 10.46690/ager.2020.03.10
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Lei G, Liao Q, Lin Q, et al. Stress dependent gas-water relative permeability in gas hydrates: A theoretical model. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2020, 4(3): 326-338. https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2020.03.10

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Received: 02 June 2020
Revised: 12 July 2020
Accepted: 28 July 2020
Published: 01 August 2020
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