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Methane hydrates, being solid ice-like compounds of methane and water, form naturally at high pressures and low temperature. They are considered as a potential future energy resource but also as a considerable geo-hazard. Methane hydrate dissociation during borehole drilling and production process (by heat or depressurization methods) may reduce the strength of hydrate-bearing sediment and cause failure. This study addresses the role of methane hydrates, presents existing methods to extract methane hydrates in sediments and discusses their corresponding effects on the mechanical behavior of methane hydrate-bearing sediments.
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The authors would like to express their great appreciation to the French National Research Agency for funding the present study, which is part of the project HYDRE “Mechanical behavior of gas-hydrate-bearing sediments”—ANR-15-CE06-0008.
We also would like to express our sincere thanks to Marine Lemaire and Emmanuel De Laure for their technical support.
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Le, T.X., Tang, A.M., Aimedieu, P., Bornert, M., Chabot, B., Rodts, S. (2019). Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sand - An Energy Resource?. In: Randolph, M., Doan, D., Tang, A., Bui, M., Dinh, V. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering. VSOE 2018. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2306-5_20
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