M. Turbakov

Effect of Confining Pressure on Unconsolidated Quartz Sand Under Conditions Relevant to Gas Hydrate Reservoir Modeling

Gas hydrate accumulations are often hosted in loose and weakly cemented sandy sediments, where hydrate dissociation weakens its cementing effect on the granular skeleton. Under these conditions, flow behavior may depend not only on the release of pore space but also on subsequent mechanical rearrangement of the sand ma...