EurOCEAN 2000 - Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

3.4 Finalization of delayed tasks include compilation and documentation of a design and test
basis, application studies and interface definition of the HYACE systems for European
(geotechnical) drilling systems and ships, detailed engineering of autoclave core logging.
3.5 Outlook
The most important immediate outlook for HYACE is the European contribution to
International Scientific Drilling in ODP, particularly for gas hydrate projects in 2001 –
2003/04 and beyond, in IODP. ODP and JOI, the Joint Oceanographic Institutions in the
United States, are interested to take up the HYACE developments and integrate them into
ODP and, eventually, into IODP, the International Ocean Drilling Programm. A sequel
project for HYACE, HYACE Demo, was submitted in February 2000 with the EU
Commission to hopefully be able to take up those chances offered to European science
and technology.
4. Selected references
• Amann, H.: Technology for Ground Truthing Seafloor Processes, Meeting of the Society
for Underwater Technology on "Man-Made Objects on the Seafloor", London May 2/3,
2000, Conference Proceedings
• Amann, H.: Ground Truthing In-situ Methane Hydrates, Innovative Methods for
Sampling, Monitoring and Validated Modelling, in: JNOC-TRC, Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Methane Hydrates, Resources in the Near Future?, Chiba,
Japan, Oct. 20-22, 1998
• Ivanow, M.K. and J.M. Woodside, Shallow gases and gas hydrates on the Crimean
continental margin, Black sea and shallow gas and gas hydrates in the Anaxinander
Mountains Region, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in Mienert and Henriet, 1996
• Kvenvolden, K.A., 1993: Gas Hydrates - Geological Perspectives and Global Change,
Reviews of Geophysics, 31, p.173, 1993
• Mienert, J. and J.P. Henriet, Gas Hydrates, Relevance to World Margin Stability and
Climatic Change, workshop Sept. 18-20, 1996, Gent, Belgium, 1996
• ODP Leg 164 Shipboard Scientific Party, Explanatory Notes, Proceedings of the Ocean
Drilling Program, Initial Reports, Vol. 164, pp. 13-41, 1996
• Paull, C.K., W.S. Borowski and N.R. Black, Marine Gas Hydrate Inventory: Preliminary
Results of ODP Leg 164 and Implications for Gas Venting and Slumping Associated with
the Blake Ridge Gas Hydrate Field, in Mienert and Henriet, 1996
• Sloan, E.D., Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases, sec. ed. Marcel Dekker, New York,
1997
• Zuidberg, H.M., B. Baardman, I. Kobayashi and M Tsuzuki: Geotechnical Techniques for
Deepwater Coring and Testing Gas Hydrates, in JNOC-TRC, Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Methane Hydrates, Resources in the Near Future?, Chiba,
Japan, Oct. 20-22, 1998
• HYACE Homepage: http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb10/MAT/hyace.html
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