Saito, Saneatsu et al. (2010): Methane hydrate occurrence estimated from downhole logging at IODP Site C0002, Kumano Basin

Leg/Site/Hole:
IODP 314 C0002
IODP 315 C0002
IODP 326 C0002
IODP 332 C0002
IODP 338 C0002
Identifier:
2012-079399
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Creator:
Saito, Saneatsu
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Ibaraki, Japan
author

Miyakawa, Ayumu
Kyoto University, Japan
author

Yamada, Yasuhiro
author

Kinoshita, Masataka
author

Identification:
Methane hydrate occurrence estimated from downhole logging at IODP Site C0002, Kumano Basin
2010
In: Tanahashi, Manabu (prefacer), Research on methane hydrate; technical innovations applicable to conventional oil and gas exploration and development
Sekiyu Gijutsu Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan
75
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54-58
During Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 314 at Nankai Trough, located on the sudbuction margin offshore Kii Peninsula, five sites were drilled and logged with logging-while-drilling (LWD). A 935-m-thick basin fill was penetrated and logged in Kumano Forearc Basin at Site C0002. The basin fill consists of repeated turbidite sequences intercalated with background hemipelagic mud. A gas hydrate-bearing zone was identified in the interval of 218-401 mbsf above a bottom-simulating reflector (BSR) by indirect evidences of electrical resistivities and P-wave velocities. More than sixty sharp resistivity spikes were identified and most of them are developed in sand layers. Thicker hydrate layers are localized near the BSR and frequency of hydrate occurrence is decreasing upward. Below the BSR, a number of turbidite sequences were identified and the thickest turbidite zone occurs at 482-547 mbsf as a possible gas/fluid conduit to produce hydrates. Distribution of turbidite sequence plays an essential role as potential conduits and containers for gas hydrate generation in Kumano Basin. Detailed observations of the LWD logs demonstrate a possible lithological control on gas migration and systematic distribution of gas hydrates in turbidite-dominant marginal basins.
Japanese
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:33.1800
West:136.3800East: 136.3800
South:33.1800

Economic geology, geology of energy sources; aliphatic hydrocarbons; alkanes; downhole methods; gas hydrates; hydrocarbons; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; IODP Site C0002; Kumano Basin; methane; NanTroSEIZE; natural gas; North Pacific; Northwest Pacific; occurrence; offshore; organic compounds; Pacific Ocean; petroleum; petroleum exploration; well-logging; West Pacific;

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