Draft Scientific Programme (as of 4 May 2010)
SUN 9 MAY

8:30 AM – 6:00 PM: Field trip
See http://www.gns.cri.nz/fieryice/field_trips.html
7:00—8:00 PM: Icebreaker & Registration, Mac's Brewery Bar & Restaurant

Start

Lead author

Institution

Title (brackets: working titles)

8:30

I Pecher

GNS Science,
Lower Hutt,
New Zealand

8:45

TBD

TBD

9:15

T Saeki

JOGMEC,
Chiba, Japan

9:45

COFFEE

10:15

C Paull

MBARI,
Monterey, USA

10:45

M Kastner

Scripps, La
Jolla, USA

11:15

D McConnell

AOA
Geophysics,
Houston, USA

11:30

S Noguchi(presented byT Saeki)

JOGMEC,Chiba, Japan

11:45

N Bangs

U TexasAustin, USA

12:00

LUNCH

1:00

G Humphrey

Fugro,
Houston, USACoring, Pressure Coring and Core
Analysis for Gas Hydrate Studies

1:15

G Humphrey

Fugro,
Houston, USA

Borehole Logging Application for
Gas Hydrate Investigations

1:30

U Tinivella

INOGS,
Trieste, Italy

Geophysical Data and GIS: An
Approach to Characterise the Gas
Hydrate Reservoir (South ShetlandMargin)

1:45

K Schwalenberg

BGR Hanover,Germany

Gas Hydrate Assessment Using
Marine Electromagnetic Methods:
Case Studies and Model StudiesMON 10 MAY
8:00

Key Aspects ofGas Hydrates
ResearchCharacterization of Gas
Hydrates
Reservoirs

Registration opens
Welcome(Report from 6th Fiery Ice, Bergen,2008)
Exploration Activities of Methane
Hydrate Resources in the Eastern
Nankai Trough(Gas hydrates and geohazards)
Links Between the Global Gas
Hydrates Reservoir and Climate
ChangeCan resource quality gas hydrate
sands be identified withconventional seismic data?
Findings from recent Chevron-US
Dept of Energy JIP drilling
3-D internal architecture of methane
hydrate bearing turbidite channels
in the eastern Nankai Trough,JapanRapid, Episodic Gas Migration into
the South Hydrate Ridge Gas
Hydrate Field Inferred from 4D
Seismic Imaging

Gas Hydrate
Production

Public Talk,Rutherford
House

2:00

G Moridis

Lawrence
Berkeley
National Lab.,
USA

2:15

T Inamori

JOGMEC,
Chiba, Japan

2:30

B Kvamme

2:45
4:15

POSTERS
Chairs

4:30

BREAKOUT

6:00

END

7:30

C Paull

MBARI,
Monterey, USA

8:15

Rapporteurs

Start of Day and Resumes from Breakout Sessions I

A TeskeU NorthCarolina,
Chapel Hill,
USA

The Marine Deep Subsurface
Biosphere

R Coffin

NRL,
Washington,
DC, USAA Geochemical Overview ofShallow Sediment Methane Source
and Cycling on the Alaskan Shelf ofthe Beaufort Sea

9:30

J Greinert

NIOZ, Texel,Netherlands

Gas Hydrate and Cold Seep
Research Along the Hikurangi
Margin, New Zealand: Results from2006 and 2007

09:45

COFFEE

10:15

J Priest

10:30

M Batzle(presented byED Sloan)

10:45

R Freij-Ayoub

11:00

K Rose

11:30

T Uchida

11:45

I Pecher

12:00

LUNCH

1:00

Hon GBrownlee

Gas Production from Hydrate
Accumulations in Geologic MediaThe Monitoring of the Gas hydrate
Production Test in the Mackenzie
DeltaU. Bergen,(CO2-CH4 replacement)Norway
Posters and Coffee
Introduction to Breakout Sessions I
Breakout Sessions I
1. Pre-drilling characterization of gas hydrate
reservoirs
2. Exploration drilling & post-drilling reservoir
characterization
3. Production tests and modelling
Conclusion of Monday Sessions
Gas Hydrate Research: Past,
Present, and Future

TUE 11 MAY

Deep
Biosphere

9:00

MethaneCycling
9:15
Shallow Gas
Hydrates

Laboratory
Studies

Wellbore
Stability
Gas Hydrate
Programs

U
Southampton,
UK
Colorado
School ofMines, Golden,
USA
CSIRO,CESRE, Perth,
Australia
US Departmentof Energy,
Morgantown,
WV, USA
Hokkaido
University,
Sapporo,JapanGNS Science,Lower Hutt,
New Zealand
New Zealand
Government,
Wellington(Laboratory)
Geomechanical & Production
Studies to Assess the Risks of Gas
Production from Methane Hydrates
in Nature
Numerical Modelling of Casing
Integrity in Hydrate-Bearing
Sediments
Understanding the Energy andEnvironmental Implications of Gas
Hydrates and the Potential Impactof Major Field Studies
Gas Hydrate Program (Japan)

Current State of Gas Hydrate
Exploration in New Zealand(Keynote speech, Minister of
Economic Development, Minister ofEnergy and Resources)

2:00Dinner

E Willoughby

U Toronto,
CanadaTBD

Overview of Marine Hydrate
Research at National
Oceanography Centre,
Southampton
Gas Hydrates on the NorwayNGU
Barents Sea-Svalbard Margin
Trondheim,(GANS) - New Results on Gas
NorwayHydrate System and Fluid Flow
Posters and Coffee
Introduction to Breakout Sessions II
Breakout Sessions II
4. Gas hydrate petroleum system
5. Laboratory studies
6. Near-seafloor gas hydrates, environmental impact
of hydrate production, and geohazards from gas
hydrates (note: may be split into two)
Conclusion of Tuesday Sessions
NOC
Southampton,
UK

2:15

I Wright

2:30

S Chand2:45
4:15

POSTERS
Chairs4:30

BREAKOUT

6:00

END

7:00

Conference Dinner at Copthorne Oriental Bay

8:15

Rapporteurs

Start of Day and Resumes from Breakout Sessions IIN Wu

Guangzhou
Institute ofEnergy
Conversion,China

Gas Hydrates Research in Northern
South China Sea

9:30

TF YangNational
TaiwanUniversity

Introduction to the Gas Hydrate
Master Project of Energy National
Science and Technology Programof Taiwan

10:00

COFFEEWED 12 MAY(Contd., Gas
HydratePrograms)

Lunch

9:00

10:30

P Dewangan

10:50

TBD

11:10

J Diaz11:40

J. LeeNational
Institute ofOceanography,
Goa, India
TBD
P. Universidad
Catolica deValparaiso,ChileKorea Instituteof Geosciences
and Mineral
Resources,Daejeon

TBD
TBD
Advances in Hydrates Exploration
at the Chilean Margin

The Review of Gas Hydrate
research in Korea

12:00
1:00

Chairs

1:15
2:45

BREAKOUT
COFFEE

3:15

Rapporteurs

4:00

PLENARY

6:00

END

Introduction to Ad-hoc Breakout Sessions and Miniworkshops
Ad-hoc Breakout Sessions and Mini-workshops
Resumes from Ad-hoc Breakout Sessions Miniworkshops
Plenary Discussion:
Characterization of Gas Hydrate Reservoirs
Next Workshop
Final Remarks
Conclusion of Workshop

Post-conference Workshop at GNS Science, 1
Fairway Drive, Lower Hutt:
Gas Hydrate Studies Offshore New Zealand: Chartingthe (Hopefully) Not-so-distant Future
Fiery Ice participants most welcome
Objectives:

THU 13 MAY

Postconference
Workshop,Gas HydrateStudies
Offshore NewZealand

The gas hydrates workshop has three overarching
objectives:
1. Exploration for gas hydrates as an energy source:
To determine options for energy-related gas hydrates
exploration with a focus on identifying sites for
exploration drilling on the Hikurangi Margin within an(optimistic) timeframe of five years.
2. Basic science related to gas hydrates: To discusspossible collaboration on fundamental science
questions related to gas hydrates in New Zealand
3. IODP drilling: To compile fundamental science
questions broadly related to gas hydrates that may
become part of an IODP proposal for the Hikurangi
MarginPosters (as of 4 May 2010)
Presenter(if different)

Institution

Title (brackets: working titles)-NIWA,
Wellington, New
ZealandTectonic and Geological Framework for
Gas Hydrates and Cold Seeps on theHikurangi Subduction Margin, NewZealand-Qingdao Instituteof MarineGeology, China

High Pressure Differential Scanning
Calorimetry Measurement of Hydrates
Phase Equilibrium in Pore Water ofShenhu area, South China Sea

Pecher IA

GNS Science,
Lower Hutt, New
Zealand

Giant Pockmarks on the Chatham Rise,
New Zealand - Evidence for Massive
Release of Gas from Hydrates During
Glacial-Interglacial Cycles?

Fohrmann, M-GNS Science,
Lower Hutt, New
Zealand

Analysing Gas-Hydrate-Bearing Channel
Systems Using an AVO Seismic Inversion
Technique on the Southern Hikurangi
Margin, New Zealand

Haeckel M

Klauke I

IfM-GEOMAR,
Kiel, Germany

The German collaborative project SUGARHamdan LJ-NRL,
Washington, DC,USA

DIversity and Biogeochemical Structuringof Bacterial Communities in Methane
Charged Sediments from the Porangahau
Ridge, New Zealand

Hu GW

Ye Y

Qingdao Instituteof Marine
Geology, China

Acoustic Properties of Gas HydrateBearing Unconsolidated Sediments andElastic Velocity Models Validation

Inamori T-JOGMEC,Chiba, Japan

Rock Physics Model of Methane Hydrate
Bearing Sediments in the Nankai Troughand the Mackenzie Delta

Joshi RK

Dewangan P

National InstituteofOceanography,
Goa, India

Geoscientific Investigations of Marine
Sediments in the Vicinity of Gas Hydrates:
Offshore Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin,India.

Klaucke I-

IfM-Geomar,
Kiel, Germany

The Variability of Gas Seeps Along theHikurangi Margin offshore New Zealand-Korea Institute ofGeosciences
and Mineral
Resources,
Daejeon, Korea

Thermal stimulation production experimentusing natural GH-bearing marine
sediments from the Ulleung Basin –Preliminary Results

Lead author

Barnes P

Chen Q

Davy B

Lee, JY

Liu CL

Ye Y

Qingdao Instituteof Marine
Geology, China

Characteristics of Marine Gas Hydrate
Recovered from Shenhu Area in South
China SeaLiu CS-National Taiwan
University

Recent Advances on Seismic Investigationof the Gas Hydrate Field Offshore
Southwestern Taiwan

Lorenson T

Rose KUSGS Menlo
Park, USA

Methane Concentrations in Sediment And
Bottom-Water Of The Alaskan Beaufort
Sea

Lorenson T

Rose KUSGS Menlo
Park, USAGas geochemistry of the Mount Elbert Gas
Hydrate Test Well, Milne Pt. Alaska:
Implications for Gas Hydrate Exploration inthe Arctic

Matsushima J-University ofTokyo, Japan

Experimental Approach to Characterize
Seismic Attenuation in Methane HydrateBearing Sediments

Mir RA-University ofToronto, CanadaControlled Source EM and 3D modeling ofresistive targets

Nagakubo S

Nakatsuka Y

JOGMEC,Chiba, Japan

Overview of the Research Program on
Environmental Impact Assessment for theMarine Production Test in Offshore Japan

Nenkoda A-Gadjah Mada
University,
Indonesia

Production Behavior of Synthetic Gas
Hydrate Under Hot Sea Water Injection:
Laboratory Case Study

Nenkoda A-Ning FL

TBD

Gadjah Mada
University,
Indonesia
China Universityof Geosciences,
Wuhan, Hubei

Possible Geohazard Scenario From
Indonesian Natural Gas Hydrate
Production
A Concept of Utilizing Solar Energy toExploit Gas Hydrates Buried in Oceanic
Sediments

Ogebule OY

Pecher IA

Heriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh, UK

Possible Evidence for Gas Hydrates in theNorthland – Northern Taranaki Basin, New
ZealandPecher IA-GNS Science,Lower Hutt, New
Zealand

The Gas Hydrates Petroleum System on
the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand Current State of Knowledge

Roach L

-University ofToronto, Canada

Long-term Seafloor Compliance Monitoringof the Bullseye Vent Gas Hydrate System

Shiga T

Uchida T

Hokkaido
University,
Sapporo, Japan

Sintering Process Observations on
Clathrate Hydrates

Swidinsky A-University ofToronto, CanadaJoint Inversion of Navigation and Gas
Hydrate Resistivity Structure Using a FixedTransmitter and a Moving, Linear Receiver
Array: A Model Study

Swidinsky A-University ofToronto, Canada

Transient Electromagnetic Imaging of Thin
Resistive Targets: Applications for Gas
Hydrate Assessment

Toulmin S

Pecher IA

Heriot-Watt
University,
Edinburgh, UK

Willoughby, E-University ofToronto, Canada

Gas Hydrate Formation on thePorangahau Ridge Offshore New Zealand– Evidence from Seismic andElectromagnetic Data
Long-Term Seafloor Observatory
Monitoring of Marine Gas Hydrates withNEPTUNE, CanadaWu DD-Guangzhou
Institute ofEnergy
Conversion,
China

Early Diagenesis Records andGeochemical Characteristics of Gas
Hydrate in the South China Sea