Non-isothermal, multi-phase, multi-component flows through deformable methane hydrate reservoirs

DOI10.1007/S10596-015-9520-9zbMATH Open1390.74048arXiv1508.01421OpenAlexW1918657346MaRDI QIDQ1640366FDOQ1640366

Authors: Shubhangi Gupta, Rainer Helmig, B. Wohlmuth 

Publication date: 14 June 2018

Published in: Computational Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a hydro-geomechanical model for subsurface methane hydrate systems. Our model considers kinetic hydrate phase change and non-isothermal, multi-phase, multi-component flow in elastically deforming soils. The model accounts for the effects of hydrate phase change and pore pressure changes on the mechanical properties of the soil, and also for the effect of soil deformation on the fluid-solid interaction properties relevant to reaction and transport processes (e.g., permeability, capillary pressure, reaction surface area). We discuss a 'cause-effect' based decoupling strategy for the model and present our numerical discretization and solution scheme. We then identify the important model components and couplings which are most vital for a hydro-geomechanical hydrate simulator, namely, 1) dissociation kinetics, 2) hydrate phase change coupled with non-isothermal two phase two component flow, 3) two phase flow coupled with linear elasticity (poroelasticity coupling), and finally 4) hydrate phase change coupled with poroelasticity (kinetics-poroelasticity coupling) and present numerical examples where, for each example, one of the aforementioned model components/couplings is isolated. A special emphasis is laid on the kinetics-poroelasticity coupling. We also present a more complex 3D example based on a subsurface hydrate reservoir which is destabilized through depressurization using a low pressure gas well. In this example, we simulate the melting of hydrate, methane gas generation, and the resulting ground subsidence and stress build-up in the vicinity of the well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01421

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zbMATH Keywords

hydro-geomechanical modelkinetics-poroelasticity couplingmethane hydrate reservoir

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Chemical and reactive effects in solid mechanics (74F25) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Cites Work

• A generic grid interface for parallel and adaptive scientific computing. II: Implementation and tests in DUNE
• Dynamics of fluids in porous media.

Cited In (3)

• Stability of a numerical scheme for methane transport in hydrate zone under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions
• Efficient parameter estimation for a methane hydrate model with active subspaces
• A chemo-thermo-mechanically coupled analysis of ground deformation induced by methane hydrate dissociation

Uses Software

• SuperLU
• DUNE
• ParaView
• FLAC3D
• eSTOMP

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