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Potential High-Quality Reservoir Sediments in the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone

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In addition to sandy turbidite exploration targets that are common along many continental margins, other marine sediments having NGH reservoir potential may also exist. These terrigenous sediments would have been deposited in continental rifts that evolved into oceanic zones. Terrigenous continental margin sediments, known for their high-quality reservoir characteristics, may have subsided along continental flanks where they are now overlain by thick marine sediment sequences. On the contrary, some of these high-quality reservoir sediments might have been lifted to the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) due to tectonism. During re-flooding of continental basins related to the development of passive margins, shorelines progressed up slope. During periodic halts in sea level rise, paralic deposition can take place along temporary shorelines, often interacting with fluviatile sediment supply or reworking older terrigenous sediments depositing upon the flooding terrigenous sediments. Mass flow deposits related to re-flooding may also occur. The majority of the subsided terrigenous and paralic sediments are likely to be deeply buried and be below the GHSZ. Here they comprise exploration targets for conventional hydrocarbons. Younger high-quality reservoir sediments may occur in the GHSZ. Continental margins starved of modern course grained marine sediment may contain these high-quality terrigenous and paralic sediments. Reworking of sediments after deposition has the potential to increase permeability and porosity of dominantly fine-grained sediments by deflation caused by current activity. High-quality reservoirs not formed in marine turbidite systems are liable to be rare, they could provide high-quality reservoir hosts for large and producible NGH concentrations.

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Max, M.D., Johnson, A.H. (2019). Potential High-Quality Reservoir Sediments in the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone. In: Exploration and Production of Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00401-9_4

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