Potential and Distribution of Natural Gas Hydrate Resources in the South China Sea

作者：Pibo Su, Lin Lin, Yaoyao Lv, Jinqiang Liang, Yunbao Sun, Wei Zhang, Huice He, Baiquan Yan, Zhanhuai Ji, Lifeng Wang, Feifei Wang, Mengya Cai · 发表于：Journal of Marine Science and Engineering · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/jmse10101364 · 被引用次数：28 · 研究领域：Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena、Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics、Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

The amount of natural gas contained in the world’s gas hydrate accumulations is enormous, but these estimates remain highly speculative. So far, it is still challenging to locate spatial distribution of marine gas hydrate and quantitatively characterize the evaluation parameters and systematic improvement of evaluation systems. Considering the systematic review of the key accumulation factors, such as heat flow, deposition rate and total organic carbon in the typical passive continental margin, the evaluation results of global marine gas hydrate resources were analyzed based on the characteristics of gas hydrate geology, geophysics and geochemistry anomalies in the South China Sea. We analyze the problems on the evaluation of marine gas hydrate resources, probing into the geological characteristics and distribution laws of marine gas hydrate resources in the South China Sea, and estimate the parameters for in-place resource evaluation, in which the volume method based on Monte Carlo probability was used to evaluate the gas hydrate potential resources in the South China Sea. The probability distribution ranges from 37.6 billion (with 90% probability) to 117.7 billion (with 10% probability) tons of oil equivalent, with an expected value of 74.4 billion tons of oil equivalent. The study results show that the gas hydrate resource density in the South China Sea is similar to that in the typical sea areas, and the estimated global resources are basically consistent with the assessm...