Experimental Study of the Acoustic Properties of Hydrophobic Sand Samples Containing Methane Hydrate

Abstract

The article discusses experiments to study the acoustic properties of samples from hydrophobic quartz sand containing methane hydrate. It is shown that in this case the P and S-wave velocities are close to the data on the velocities in samples containing a non-cementing type hydrate, which is typical for natural samples. This method is an alternative to the so-called “water excess” method for the rapid formation of sand samples containing non-cementing methane hydrate.