Doe drills methane hydrate test well on Alaska’s North Slope
http://www.kallanishenergy.com/2019/01/25/doe-drills-methane-hydrate-test-well-on-alaskas-north-slope/The Department of Energy and its international partners have successfully drilled a natural gas hydrate test well in Alaska, Kallanish Energy reports.
The well was drilled and logged at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska’s North Slope.
The results showed two gas hydrate reservoirs suitable for future testing, the federal agency reported.
The initial well was completed with temperature- and acoustic-monitoring devices in place that will allow it to serve as a monitoring well for any future field experiments.
The announcement came Wednesday from Doe and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. Partners on the project are the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp., the U.S. Geological Survey and Petrotechnical Resources-Alaska, in cooperation with Prudhoe Bay unitholders.
“The success of this test moves us closer to characterizing, evaluating and confirming the potential for gas hydrates production on the North Slope,†said Steve Winberg, Doe’s assistant secretary for Fossil Energy, in a statement.
The test well’s location in the Prudhoe Bay oilfield provides the needed infrastructure to conduct experiments of sufficient duration to reveal how gas hydrates release natural gas in response to reservoir depressurization, Doe said....