Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fuqin Lu

Xiang Li

Deqing Liang

Xuebing Zhou

Dongliang Li

Jingsheng Lu

A nitrogen-carbon dioxide mixed gas jet apparatus for a horizontal well and an exploitation method is presented. The jet apparatus includes: an offshore platform, a natural gas processing unit, and a pressurizing unit, wherein a portion of the gas exploitation pipe in the hydrate layer is provided with a gas injection horizontal well; a mixed gas jet unit and a nozzle assembly are disposed in the gas injection horizontal well; the mixed gas jet unit is configured to mix nitrogen and carbon dioxide, and then inject the mixed gas into a hydrate deposition layer through the nozzle assembly, so that the mixed gas replaces methane gas in the hydrate deposition layer; the portion of the gas exploitation pipe in the hydrate layer is provided with a gas exploitation horizontal well configured to collect the methane gas and convey the methane gas to the natural gas processing unit.

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