The Challenge of Deep Ocean Drilling for Natural Gas Hydrate
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Abstract
Large reservoirs of natural gas hydrate have been sampled extensively by past DSDP, ODP, and other scientific ocean drilling. Gas hydrate is an ice-like solid consisting of gas molecules, commonly methane, trapped in a cage of water molecules. Global estimates of the methane content of natural gas hydrate are very large, potentially enormous. Such large quantities of gas hydrate could be important as a clean energy source, as a control in global climate, and as a factor in seafloor slumps and slides. Gas hydrate occurs only in water depths greater than about 600 m at temperate latitudes, but occurs on land and in shallow water in the Arctic. The formation mechanisms of gas hydrates are only partly understood. Gas hydrate appears to be formed usually by migrating fluids carrying biologically generated methane upward to regions of sufficiently low temperature and high pressure where the hydrate is stable. Quantitative aspects of this formation model need testing, however, and questions remain about the sources and sinks for methane, and the amount that can reach the atmosphere. In Canada, gas hydrates are found on most of its continental margins, notably on the continental slope off Vancouver Island and in the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea region. A drilling program off Vancouver Island would examine gas hydrates in a well-studied accretionary sedimentary wedge; such sediments appear to be the most common environment in which hydrates are found globally. Drilling for gas hydrate offshore in the Canadian Arctic, perhaps using an alternative drilling platform, would complement a current onshore Arctic gas hydrate drilling program in the permafrost environment. The Arctic land and shallow sea hydrate are important because such hydrate is especially susceptible to global climate change. Resume De vastes reservoirs d'hydrate de gaz naturel ont ete amplement echantillonnes par le DSDP, l'ODP et d'autres programmes de forage scientifiques. L'hydrate de gaz est un solide semblable a la glace, constitue de molecules de gaz, generalement du methane, piegees dans une cage de molecules d'eau. Les estimations des volumes planetaires d'hydrate de gaz naturel sont tres grandes, voire enormes. De telles quantites d'hydrate de gaz pourraient s'averer important comme source d'energie, comme tampon de regulation du climat de la planete, et comme facteur dans les mouvements et les glissements de terrains des fonds marins. Sous l'eau, les hydrate de gaz n'existent qu'a des profondeurs de plus de 600 m aux latitudes temperees, mais ils existent sur terre et en eaux peu profondes dans les regions arctiques. Le mecanisme de formation des hydrates de gaz n'est que partiellement elucide. Il semble que l'hydrate de gaz se forme generalement par la migration ascendante de fluides porteurs de methane biologique vers des zones de temperature suffisamment basse et de pression suffisamment elevee, la ou l'hydrate est stable. Cependant, les aspects quantitatifs de ce modele de formation doivent etre verifies, et certaines questions demeurent sans reponse quant aux sources et aux pieges du methane, et a la quantite pouvant atteindre l'atmosphere. Au Canada, on trouve de l'hydrate de gaz sur la plupart de ses marges continentales, notamment sur la pente continentale au large de l'ile de Vancouver de meme que dans la zone du delta du Mackensie-mer de Beaufort. Un programme de forage au large de l'ile de Vancouver permettrait d'etudier les hydrates de gaz au sein d'un biseau sedimentaire d'accretion bien etudie; il semble que ce type de sediments soit l'environnement le plus commun ou l'on trouve des hydrates de gaz sur la planete. Le forage de prospection en mer pour l'hydrate de gaz dans l'Arctique canadien, peut-etre avec une autre plateforme de forage, permettrait de completer un programme de forage sur les hydrates de gaz en cours dans une region arctique du continent, dans un environnement de pergelisol. L'hydrate de gaz des terres de l'Arctique et des mers peu profondes est important a cause de sa susceptibilite aux changements climatiques planetaires.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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