Electronic Index of AAPG Special Publications:

M89: Natural gas hydrates—Energy resource potential and associated geologic hazards

Edited by T. Collett, A. Johnson, C. Knapp, and R. Boswell

Chapter 1: Natural Gas Hydrates: A Review
Timothy S. Collett, Arthur H. Johnson, Camelia C. Knapp, Ray Boswell

Chapter 2: Overview of the United States Department of Energy's Gas-hydrate Research Program: 2000 to 2005
Edith C. Allison, Ray M. Boswell

Chapter 3: Methane-hydrate Occurrence and Distribution in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan: Findings of the Tokai-oki to Kumano-nada Methane-hydrate Drilling Program
Y. Tsuji, T. Fujii, M. Hayashi, R. Kitamura, M. Nakamizu, K. Ohbi, T. Saeki, K. Yamamoto, T. Namikawa, T. Inamori, N. Oikawa, S. Shimizu, M. Kawasaki, S. Nagakubo, J. Matsushima, K. Ochiai, T. Okui

Chapter 4: Multicomponent Seismic Technology Assessment of Fluid-gas Expulsion Geology and Gas-hydrate Systems: Gulf of Mexico
B. A. Hardage, P. E. Murray, R. Remington, M. De Angelo, D. Sava, H. H. Roberts, W. Shedd, J. Hunt Jr.

Chapter 5: Seismic and Thermal Characterization of a Bottom-simulating Reflection in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Deborah R. Hutchinson, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn D. Ruppel, Fred Snyder, Brandon Dugan

Chapter 6: Monitoring Sea-floor Instability Caused by the Presence of Gas Hydrate Using Ocean Acoustical and Geophysical Techniques in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Erika Geresi, Ross Chapman, Tom McGee, Bob Woolsey

Chapter 7: Can Fractures in Soft Sediments Host Significant Quantities of Gas Hydrates?
Thomas McGee, Carol Lutken, J. Robert Woolsey, Rudy Rogers, Jennifer Dearman, Charlotte Brunner, F. Leo Lynch

Chapter 8: Why Hydrate-linked Velocity-amplitude Anomaly Structures are Common in the Bering Sea Basin: A Hypothesis
David W. Scholl, Ginger A. Barth, Jonathan R. Childs

Chapter 9: Bering Sea Velocity-amplitude Anomalies: Exploring the Distribution of Natural Gas and Gas-hydrate Indicators
Ginger A. Barth, David W. Scholl, and Jonathan R. Childs

Chapter 10: No Evidence for Enhanced Methane Flux from the Blake Ridge Depression
Charles K. Paull, William Ussler III

Chapter 11: Estimation of Gas-hydrate Saturation and Heterogeneity on Cascadia Margin from Ocean Drilling Project Leg 204 Logging-while-drilling Measurements
Aleksandra Janik, David Goldberg, Gilles Guerin, Timothy Collett

Chapter 12: Methane-hydrate Occurrence and Saturation Confirmed from Core Samples, Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan
Tetsuya Fujii, Masaru Nakamizu, Yoshihiro Tsuji, Takatoshi Namikawa, Toshiharu Okui, Masayuki Kawasaki, Koji Ochiai, Mizue Nishimura, Osamu Takano

Chapter 13: Methane Accumulation and High Concentration of Gas Hydrate in Marine and Terrestrial Sandy Sediments
Takashi Uchida, Amane Waseda, Takatoshi Namikawa

Chapter 14: Temperature Monitoring Results for Methane-hydrate Sediments in the Nankai Trough, Japan
Masafumi Fukuhara, Vladimir Tertychnyi, Kasumi Fujii, Valery Shako, Viacheslav Pimenov, Yuri Popov, Doug Murray, Tetsuya Fujii

Chapter 15: Gas Hydrate Offshore Vancouver Island, Northern Cascadia Margin
M. Riedel, Eleanor C. Willoughby, Nigel Edwards, Roy D. Hyndman, George D. Spence, Ross Chapman, Marc-Andre Chen, Ivana Novosel, Katrin Schwalenberg

Chapter 16: Multicomponent Seismic Studies of the Gas-hydrate System at the Storegga Slide
Stefan Bunz, Jurgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen

Chapter 17: Seismic Characterization of the Fiordland Gas-hydrate Province, New Zealand
Miko Fohrmann, Andrew R. Gorman, Ingo A. Pecher

Chapter 18: Variation of Bottom-simulating-reflection Strength in a High-flux Methane Province, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
Stuart A. Henrys, Derek J. Woodward, Ingo A. Pecher

Chapter 19: Structural Controls on the Formation of Bottom-simulating Reflectors Offshore Southwestern Taiwan from a Dense Seismic Reflection Survey
Philippe Schnurle, Char-Shine Liu

Chapter 20: Rock-physics Models for Gas-hydrate Systems Associated with Unconsolidated Marine Sediments
Diana Sava, Bob Hardage

Chapter 21: Integration of Vertical Seismic, Surface Seismic, and Well-log Data at the Mallik 2L-38 Gas-hydrate Research Well, Mackenzie Delta, Canada
M. W. Lee, T. S. Collett, W. F. Agena

Chapter 22: Seismic-attribute Analysis for Gas-hydrate and Free-gas Prospects on the North Slope of Alaska
M. W. Lee, T. S. Collett, T. L. Inks

Chapter 23: Seismic Prospecting for Gas-hydrate and Associated Free-gas Prospects in the Milne Point Area of Northern Alaska
T. L. Inks, M. W. Lee, W. F. Agena, D. J. Taylor, T. S. Collett, M. V. Zyrianova R. B. Hunter

Chapter 24: Hydrocarbon Gas Composition and Origin of Gas Hydrate from the Alaska North Slope
Thomas D. Lorenson, Timothy S. Collett, Michael J. Whiticar

Chapter 25: Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 1 - Project Summary and Geological Description of the Core*
R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

Chapter 26: Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 2 - Porosity, Permeability, Grain Density, and Bulk Modulus Core Studies*
R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

Chapter 27: Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 3 - Electrical Resistivity Core Studies*
R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

Chapter 28: Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 4 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Studies*
R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

Chapter 29: Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 5 - Acoustic Velocity Core Studies*
R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

Chapter 30: Technology for High-pressure Sampling and Analysis of Deep-sea Sediments, Associated Gas Hydrates, and Deep-biosphere Processes
R. John Parkes, Derek Martin, Hans Amann, Erik Anders, Melanie Holland, Peter J. Schultheiss, Xiangwei Wang, Krassimir Dotchev

Chapter 31: Progress in Laboratory Studies of Gas Hydrate in Porous Media at the Geological Survey of Canada
J. F. Wright, S. R. Dallimore

Chapter 32: Laboratory Measurements on Core-scale Sediment and Hydrate Samples to Predict Reservoir Behavior
Timothy J. Kneafsey, Yongkoo Seol, George J. Moridis, Liviu Tomutsa, Barry M. Freifeld

Chapter 33: Effects of Methane Hydrate on the Physical Properties of Sediments
William J. Winters, William F. Waite, David H. Mason

Chapter 34: Relative Permeability Measurements of Gas-water-hydrate Systems
Namit J. Jaiswal, Abhijit Y. Dandekar, Shirish L. Patil, Robert B. Hunter, Timothy S. Collett

Chapter 35: Water Permeability of Porous Media Containing Methane Hydrate as Controlled by the Methane-hydrate Growth Process
Hideki Minagawa, Ryo Ohmura, Yasushi Kamata, Jiro Nagao, Takao Ebinuma, Hideo Narita, Yoshihiro Masuda

Chapter 36: Methane-hydrate Laboratory and Modeling Research: Bridging the Gap
Charles E. Taylor, Jonathan Lekse, Niall English

Chapter 37: Thermal Property Measurements of Methane Hydrate Using a Transient Plane Source Technique
Robert P. Warzinski, Eilis J. Rosenbaum, Ronald J. Lynn, David W. Shaw

Chapter 38: Phase Field Approaches to the Kinetic Modeling of Hydrate Phase Transitions
Bjorn Kvamme, Atle Svandal, Trygve Buanes, Tatyana Kuznetsova

Chapter 39: Modeling Methane-hydrate Formation in Marine Sediments
Lili Zheng, Hui Zhang, Mingyu Zhang, Prasad Kerkar, Devinder Mahajan