Gas hydrates have received considerable attention due to their important role in flow
assurance for the oil and gas industry, their extensive natural occurrence on Earth and …

Natural gas has been considered as the best transition fuel into the future carbon constraint
world. The ever-increasing demand for natural gas has prompted expanding research and …

Natural gas hydrate, a promising new energy, has been widely concerned from the past
decades. Significant experimental efforts have been made to explore the mechanical …

For the past three decades, discussion of naturally-occurring gas hydrates has been framed
by a series of assessments that indicate enormous global volumes of methane present …

Natural gas hydrate is one of the most potential carbon energy resources because of its
tremendous reserves. Gas and water permeability of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments …

Geologic reservoirs containing gas hydrate occur beneath permafrost environments and
within marine continental slope sediments, representing a potentially vast natural gas …

The extraction process of methane hydrate involves interactions of multiple fields, phases,
and loading stages. By extrapolating deductions from the thermodynamic equation in …

The macromechanical properties (strength, stiffness, stress‐strain relationship, etc) of the
hydrate‐bearing sediment are often correlated with the hydrate cementation failure …

This volume describes processes used in and results from laboratory measurements and
analyses of core samples taken from methane hydrate-bearing sediments in a methane …

Maintaining wellbore stability is the basis and prerequisite for efficient methane production
from offshore gas hydrates. Nevertheless, owing to the invasion and disturbance by drilling …