Gas Hydrate Resource Assessment on the United States Outer Continental Shelf: A Mass Balance Model. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 2011.

摘要

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE; formerly the Minerals Management Service) is a U. S. Department of the Interior bureau charged with managing the nations natural gas, oil, and other mineral resources on 1.7 billion acres of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Over the past five years, BOEMRE has worked to develop an assessment methodology to evaluate the resource potential of natural gas hydrate across the entire OCS, including the Alaskan, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific margins. Preliminary assessment results were published for the Gulf of Mexico OCS in 2008, reporting a mean in-place volume of 606.87 trillion cubic meters. The assessment model structure has been modified in many ways over the past three years. In this paper, we report on major model changes that allow for the adaptation of the Gulf of Mexico model to other U.S. OCS areas, including the integration of Bottom Simulating Reflectors, stochastic prediction of reservoir facies, and migration model modifications.