GANS

Gas Hydrates on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard margin

 
 

In GANS-publications it is ABSOLUTELY necessary to refer to the project and the NFR contract number in the acknowledgement otherwise we cannot report it to NFR. 

Project name and NFR contract number are: "Gas hydrates on the Norway-Barents Sea -Svalbard margin", Contract No. 175969/S30

2010

PAPERS

Petersen, C.J., Bunz, S., Hustoft, S., Mienert, J., Klaeschen, D. High-resolution P-Cable 3D seismic imaging of gas chimney structures in gas hydrated sediments of an Arctic sediment drift. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 1981-1994.

Rise, L., Chand, S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Bøe, R., 2010. Late Cenozoic development of the south Vøring margin, mid-Norway. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 1789-1803.

Mienert, J., Vanneste, M., Haflidason, H., Bunz, S. Norwegian margin outer shelf cracing: a consequence of climate-incuded gas hydrate dissociation?. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99, 207-225.

Brendryen, J., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H., 2010. Norwegian Sea tephrostratigraphy of Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 5: Prospects and problems for tephrochronology in the North Atalntic Region. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 847-864.

Chen, Y., Ussler, III., Haflidason, H., Lepland, A., Rise, L., Hovland, M., Hjelstuen, B.O., 2010. Sources of methane inferred from pore water d13C of dissolved inorganic carbon in pockmark G11, offshore Mid-Norway. Chemical Geology, 275, 127-138.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., Nygård, A., 2010. Sedimentary and structural control on pockmark development - evidence from the Nyegga Pockmark Field, NW Europaen margin. Geo-Marine Letters, 30 (3/4), 221-230.

Valuar, E., Barth, T., Haflidason, H., 2010. The geochemical characteristics of the hydrate-bound gases from the Nyegga pockmark field, Norwegian Sea. Organic Geochemistry, 41, 437-444.

REPORTS/THESIS

Reiche, S., 2010. High-resolution seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary processes and the development of the Nyegga pockmark-field at the mid-Norwegian continental margin. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, 195 pp.

Tjelmeland, H., 2010. Studiar av havbotnstrukturar i Vigrid-diapirfeltet på midt-norsk kontinentalmargin. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, 134 pp.

ABSTRACTS

Bunz, S., Mienert, J., Rajan, A., 2010. High-resolution 3D seismic data characterize fluid flow systems in the SW Barents Sea. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Bunz, S., Mienert, J., 2010. Gas-hydrate occurences on the W-Svalbard margin at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Chand, S., Haflidason, H., Minert, J., and the GANS working group, 2010. Gas Hydrates on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard margin (GANS) - New results on gas hydrate system and fluid floe. 7th International Workshop on Methane Hydrates R&D (Fiery Ice 2010), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-12 May 2010.

Stokke, R., Roalkvam, I., Lanzen, A., Chen, Y., Haflidason, H., Steen, I.H., 2010. Community proteogenomics of cold-methane seep sediment at Nyegga, Mid-Norwegian margin. AGU Fall Meeting 2010, San Fransisco, USA, 13.-17. december 2010. 

Vaular, E.N., Corak, D., Barth, T., 2010. Isotope fractionation during natural gas hydrate foramtion. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Haflidason, H., Steen, I.H., Roalkvam, I., Hocking, W., Hjelstuen, B.O., Chen, Y., Daae, F.-L., 2010. The sulfate-methane transition zone (SMTZ) in passive and active gas hydrate bearing sediments at Nyegga on the Mid-Norwegian margin: a multidisiplinary geological, geobiological and geochemical study. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., 2010. The character of the glaciated Mid-Norwegian continental margin. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Reiche, S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2010. Fluid escape features on the Mid-Norwegian continental margin - geological setting and development.  29th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Oslo, 11.-13. January 2010.

Waldmann, N., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., 2010. The mid-Norwegian margin gas hydrate province: trace of slope stability and geo-hazard through time. European Geosciences General Assembly 2010,Austria, 02.-07. May 2010.

Waldmann, N., Haflidason, H., Zuhlsdorff, C., Hjelstuen, B.O., 2010. Dynamic Response of gas hydrates to lithological changes: Evidence from the Mid-Norwegian Continental margin. AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition, 11.-14. April 2010. 

                                               

2009

PAPERS

Hustoft, S., Dugan, B., Mienert, J., 2009. Effects of rapid sedimentation on developing the Nyegga pockmark field: Constraints from hydrological modeling and 3-D seismic data, offshore mid-Norway. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10(6), Q06012, doi:10.1029/2009GC002409

Hustoft, S., Bunz, S., Mienert, J., Chand, S., 2009. Gas hydrate reservoir and active methane-venting province in sediments on <20 Ma young ocenaic crust in the Fram Strait, offshore NW-Svalbard. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 12-24.

Chand, S., Rise, L., Ottesen, D., Dolan, M.F.J., Bellec, V., Bøe., 2009. Pockmark like depressions near the Goliat hydrocarbon field, Barents Sea: Morphology and Genesis. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 26, 1035-1042. (Contact shyam.chand€ngu.no for preprint)


REPORTS/THESIS

Høiland, S., Borgund, A.E., 2009. Summary of SINTEF reports from 1995 and 1996 about hydrate occurence on the Norwegian continetnal shelf. SINTEF Petroleum Research Report, May 2009, 44 pp.

den Hartogh, M., 2009. Plio-Pleistocene glacial development of the Vøring Margin. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, 79 pp.

Skaug, M., 2009. Vigrid diapirfeltet på sørlige Vøringplatå; slamdiapirer eller skredrelaterte havbunnstrukturer? Master of Science Thesis, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, 232 pp.

Ekerhovd, M., 2009. Studium av gassutsivingssignaturar frå evakueringsstrukturar (pokmarks) på Nyegga ved bruk av bentisk foraminifer faunasamansetnad og stabilisotopar. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen


ABSTRACTS

Hjelstuen, B.O., Skaug, M., Hafllidason, H., 2009. Reccurent sub-marine slide events on the south Vøring Plateau, mid-Norwegian continental margin. AGU FAll Meeting 2009, San Fransisco, USA, 14.-18. December 2009.

Haflidasson, H., et al., 2009. Gas hydrates on the Norway-Barents Sea-Svalbard margin (GANS); an overview and preliminary results. AGU FAll Meeting 2009, San Fransisco, USA, 14.-18. December 2009.

Waldmann, N., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B., Sejrup, H.P., 2009. Gas hydrates on the mid-Norwegian continental margin: Pacemakers of slope stability through time. AGU FAll Meeting 2009, San Fransisco, USA, 14.-18. December 2009.

Zuhlsdorff, C., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., Brendryne, J., Grasmo, K.J., 2009. Sedimentary environments and gas hydrates on the Vøring Plateau, mid-Norwegian continental margin. AGU FAll Meeting 2009, San Fransisco, USA, 14.-18. December 2009.

Vaular, E.N. and Chen, Y., 2009. Headspace and pore water analyses of sediment samples from a gas hydrate bearing area off the mid-Norwegian coast. 24th International meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2009), Bremen, Germany, 6.-11. September 2009.

Haflidason, H., Steen, I.H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Hocking, W., Chen, Y., Vaular, E.N., Daae, F.-L., Todt, C., Portnova, D., 2009. The extreme environments of active gas hydrate bearing pockmarks at Nyegga: a multidisiplinary geological, biological and geochemical study. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19.-24. April 2009.

Chen, Y., Vaular, E., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, J. Knies., 2009. Sulfate reduction and methane cycling at pockmark areas in Nyegga and Vestnesa Ridge. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19.-24. April 2009.

Bunz, S., Mienert, J., Petersen, C.J., Hustoft, S., 2009. Comparative analysis of methane-seepage structures on the Vestnesa Ridge and in the Nyegga area on the Norwegian-Barents-Svalbard Margin - a model for their formation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19.-24. April 2009.

Chand, S., Mienert, J., Chen, Y., Bellec, V., Knies, J., Thorsnes, T., 2009. Gas hydrate sysmtes of the Norwegian and Barents Seas and their response to glaciations. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19.-24. April 2009.

Skaug, M., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., & Gans working group, 2009. Diapiric features on the mid-Norwegian margin - regional setting, development and relation to hazardous (slide) events. NGF Vinterkonferanse, 13.-15. January 2009, Bergen, Norway.

Haflidason, H., Steen, I.H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Hocking, W., Daae, F.-L., Chen, Y., Vaular, E.N., Todt, C., 2009. The extreme environments of active seafloor seep pockmarks at Nyegga, the upper Mid-Norwegian margin: a multidisiplinary geological, biological and geochemical study. NGF Vinterkonferanse, 13.-15. January 2009, Bergen, Norway.

Zuhlsdorff, C., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., Brendryen, J., Grasmo, K.J., Berstad, I., 2009. Imprints of Scandinavian ice sheet dynamics in records from the Vøring Plateau since Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 9. NGF Vinterkonferanse, 13.-15. January 2009, Bergen, Norway.



MEDIA/POPULAR SCIENCE/PUBLIC 

Nicolas Waldmann, UiB,  gave an invitated presentation at the Geological Survey of Israel the 1st of November 2009 on the topic "Gas hydrates on the Mid-Norwegian continental margin: Pacemakers of slope stability and climate change trough time"

Nicolas Waldmann, UiB, gave an invitated presentation at the Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, and the Institute of Earth Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the 26th and 28th of November 2009. Title of presentation was " Gas hydrates: the world largest energy resource or a potetial climate threat ?"

"Omstridt skattejakt på havets bunn" - Interview with Bjørn Kvamme and Haflidi Haflidason, UiB, in Stavanger Aftenblad 26. january 2009



2008


PAPERS/PROCEEDINGS

Bunz, S., Chand, S., Mienert, J., 2008. Direct seismic detection of gas hydrates using multi-component seismology: A case study from the mid-Norwegian margin. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 6-10, 2008.

Bunz, S., Petersen, J., Hustoft, S., Mienert, J., 2008. Environmentally-sensitive gas hydrates on the W-Svalbard margin at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 6-10, 2008.

Petersen, C.J., Bunz, S., Hustoft, S., Mienert, J., 2008. 3D seismic imaging of marine gad hydrates in Arctic sediments of the Vestnesa Ridge off the W-Svalbard margin. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 6-10, 2008.

Valuar, E., Barth, T., 2008. Organic analysis of sediments in natural gas hydrate deposits on the mid-Norwegian margin. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 6-10, 2008.

REPORTS

Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Monsen, S., Ekerhovd, M., Skaug, M. B., Alvheim, S., Vaular, E.N., Chen, Y., Steen, I.H., Daae, F.-L., Hocking, W., Todt, C., Cid, M., Portnova,D., 2008. Marine Geological Cruise Report from the Vøring Plateau. Report No. 100-03/08, Department of Earth Science & Centre of Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway, 37 pp.

Monsen, S., E.N. Vaular, Chen, Y., Haflidason, H., 2008. Marine Geological Cruise Report from the Vestnesa Ridge. Report No. 100-04/08. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 16 pp.

Buenz, S., Petersen, J., Inversen, S., Chand, S., Bialas, J., Rajan, A., Pless, G., Frantzen, J., Weibull, W., Poluboyarinov, M., Mandal, A., Tiwari, A. (2008). Gas hydrates and fluid fvents of the NBS-Margin. Nyegga - Northern Flank of Storegga Slide. Cruise report, University of Tromsø, 27 pp


ABSTRACTS

Petersen, J., Hustoft, S., Buenz, S., Mienert, J., 2008. High-resolution 3D seismic data characterize Pockmark and Chimney Structures: Mehtane Flow Through Hydrate Sediments at Vestnesa Ridge off W-Svalbard Margin in the Arctic. AGU Fall meeting, 15.-19. December 2008, San Fransisco, USA

Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Chen, Y., Vaular, E.N., Steen, I.H., Dae, F.-L., Todt, C., Hocking, W., 2008. Active seafloor seeps with associated methane and nethane hydrate bearing sediments on the Mid-Norwegian margin (Nyegga): A multidiciplinary geological, geochemical and biological study. AGU Fall meeting, 15-19. December 2008, San Fransisco, USA

Hjelstuen, B. and Haflidason, H., 2008. The origin of the Nyegga Pockmark Field on the Norwegian continental margin. 9th international conference on gas in marine sediments, 15. -19. september, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

Haflidason, H., Mienert, J., Knies, J., Høiland, S., Planke, S., Reichel, T., Riis, F., Hjelstuen, B.O., Bunz, S., Chand, S., Kvamme, B., Barth, T., Kvalstad, T., 2008. Gas hydrates on the Norway-Barents Sea-Svalbard margin (GANS). International Geological Conference, 6.-14. August 2008, Oslo, Norway.

Chen, Y., Haflidason, H., Knies, J., 2008. Methane fluxes from pockmark areas in Nyegga, Norwegian Sea. International Geological Conference, 6.-14. August 2008, Oslo, Norway.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2008. Seabed fluid structures and relations to gas hydrate reservoirs. International Geological Conference, 6.-14. August 2008, Oslo, Norway.

Skaug, M. B., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2008. The Vigrid "Diapir" Field on the south Vøring Plateau, mid-Norwegian margin - mud diapris or evacuation structures? International Geological Conference, 6.-14. August 2008, Oslo, Norway.

Chand, S., 2008. Gas hydrate anomalies in seismic velocities, amplitudes and attenuation: What do they imply?. 6th International conference on gas hydrates, 6-10 July 2008, Vancover, Canada.

Haflidason, H., 2008. Searching and Quantifying for gas hydrates. Workshop on the challenges of extracting gas hydrates as an envirnomentally friendly source of energy and storing CO2 in gas hydrates reservoir. 3. - 6. June 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Kvamme, B., 2008. What is gas hydrates and where it can be found? Workshop on the challenges of extracting gas hydrates as an envirnomentally friendly source of energy and storing CO2 in gas hydrates reservoir. 3. - 6. June 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Kvamme, B., 2008. Using hydrates for the safe capture and storage of CO2. Workshop on the challenges of extracting gas hydrates as an envirnomentally friendly source of energy and storing CO2 in gas hydrates reservoir. 3. - 6. June 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Haflidason, H., the GANS working group and SEABED III, 2008.  Gas Hydrates on the Norway-Barents Sea-Svalbard margin. 6th international workshop on methane hydrate research and development, 13-15. May 2008, Bergen, Norway.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2008.  Norwegian margin fluid escape structures - sedimentary environments and evolution. 6th international workshop on methane hydrate research and development, 13-15. May 2008, Bergen, Norway.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2008. Norwegian margin fluid escape structures - sedimentary environments and evolution. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria,  13-18. April 2008.

Bunz, S., Petersen, C.J., Hustoft, S., Minert, J., 2008. Gas hydrates and fluid flow focussing in sediments of the Vestnesa Ridge on the W-Svalbard margin. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria,  13-18. April 2008.

Petersen, C.J., Bunz, S., Hustoft, S., Mienert, J., 2008. High-resolution 3D seismic invstigation of fluid flow structures in hydrated sediments of the Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard Margin. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria,  13-18. April 2008.

MEDIA/POPULAR SCIENCE

"Himmel og helvete på havdypet" - interview with several GANS-members in Dagens Næringsliv, 18 october 2008.

"Brennende is i dypet" - interview with Haflidi Haflidason in PETROMAKS Faktaark mai 2008.

"Bytter ut CO2 mot naturgass" - interview Haflidi Haflidason on TV2.no, January 2008




2007


Abstracts

Haflidason, H. and the GANS working group, 2007.  Gas Hydrates on the Norway-Barents Sea-Svalbard margin. AGU Fall meeting, 10-14. December 2007, San Fransisco, USA.

Petersen, C.J., Buenz, S., Hustoft, S., Mienert, J., 2007. High-resolution 3D seismic investigations indicate focused fluid flow systems in hydrated sediments at the Vestnesa Ridge off the W-Svalbard margin. AGU Fall meeting, 10-14. December 2007, San Fransisco, USA.

Haflidason, H., Mienert, J , Kvamme, B., Knies, J., Barth, T., Kvalstad, T., Høiland, S., Planke, S., Andersen, E.S., Riis, F. , Hjelstuen, B.O. , Sejrup, H.P., Pedersen, R.B., Bünz, S., Chand, S., Larsen, R., 2007. Gas Hydrates on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard margin (GANS). Norsk Geologisk Vintermøte , 8.-10. January 2007, Stavanger, Norway

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., GANS Working Group, 2007. The Vigrid “Diapir” Field on the south Vøring Plateau, mid-Norwegian margin – mud diapirs or slide debrites ? Norsk Geologisk Vintermøte , 8.-10. January 2007, Stavanger, Norway



Scientific reports and theses

Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Nygård, A., Monsen, S., Mardal, I., Vaular, E.N., Johannessen, H.B., Chen, Y., Harrison, T., 2007. Marine Geological Cruise Report from Møre Margin, Vøring Plateau, Lofoten Basin and Andøya Channel. Report No. 100-07/01, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 113 pp.

Mienert, J., Bunz, S., Hustoft, S., Faverola, A.P., Perez-Barcia, C., Holbæk-Hansen, L.E., Sandaker, K., Robertsen, R., Thorstensen, L., Rasmussen, E., Frantzen, J.H.P., Weibull, W., Chand, S., 2007. Gas hydrates of the NBS-margin. Vestnesa Ridge. Petromaks-GANS Project. Cruise Report, Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway, 26 pp.


Media/Popular science

"CO2 inn, energi ut" - interview with Bjørn Kvamme, Haflidi Haflidason and Berit O. Hjelstuen in HUBRO, No 4, pp 12, December 2007.

"The ice that burns" - interview with Haflidi Haflidason in PETROMAKS - Petroleum research in Norway, september 2007

”Combustible ice – a new energy source” – interview with Haflidi Haflidason and Berit O. Hjelstuen in The Fjord Coast – Life and Business on the Norwegian west coast, pp 54-56. July 2007.

"Isen som varmer - funn på havbunnen kan gi nytt energieventyr". Interview with Haflidi Haflidason in Dagbladet, Friday 12. January 2007.

"Den skumle enerigireserven". Interview with Haflidi Haflidason in A-Magasinet, Friday 12. January 2007.