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Project Number 327
Date of Summary September 01, 2002
Subject Applied Gas Hydrate Research Program
Performing Activity Texas A&M Research Foundation
Principal Investigator Dr. Roger Sassen
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Completion Complete
Description This is a JIP designed to disseminate new information to address hazard concerns related to hydrates and to stimulate new research. Objectives of the research include:  mapping gas hydrates in geophysical context across the Gulf of Mexico, and analyzing new samples of natural gas hydrate. The focus is on reservoir characterization, the effects of gas hydrates on sea floor stability, and on pipeline plugging and potential rupture.
Progress Gas hydrate and sediment samples were acquired from the Gulf of Mexico using research submersibles. Research cores containing gas hydrates were acquired during piston coring cruises. Intact gas hydrate samples and data were donated by energy companies. The project is now completed.

Reports
AA (614 KB) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Gas Hydrate-Related Crude Oil, Atwater Block 425; Biomarkers and Whole-Oil Isotopic analysis, Texas A&M University, Applied Gas Hydrate Research Program, GERG Technical Report 99-10, May 27, 1999.
AB (227 KB) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . R. Sassen, S.T. Sweet, A.V. Milkov, D.A. DeFreitas, G.G. Salata, and E.C. McDade, Geology and Geochemistry Of Gas Hydrates, Central Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, Vol. 1. XLIX, 1999.
 

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