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Timothy S. Collett is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and environmental science, with substantial contributions in ocean engineering, environmental chemistry, geophysics, mechanics of materials, and mechanical engineering.

Their work covers a range of topics related to methane hydrates and associated phenomena, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Melanie Holland, Peter Schultheiss, Gilles Guèrin, Michael Riedel, and Philip E. Long.

Timothy S. Collett has published extensively in several key venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, Energy & Fuels, Marine and Petroleum Geology, and the AAPG Bulletin.

Selected recent papers include:

  • An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Review of Past Gas Production Attempts from Subsurface Gas Hydrate Deposits and Necessity of Long-Term Production Testing, 2022, Energy & Fuels
  • Multiple physical properties of gas hydrate-bearing sediments recovered from Alaska North Slope 2018 Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Pressure coring a Gulf of Mexico deep-water turbidite gas hydrate reservoir: Initial results from The University of Texas-Gulf of Mexico 2-1 (UT-GOM2-1) Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition, 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • New Insights into the Occurrence and Implications of Mobile Water in Gas Hydrate Systems, 2022, Energy & Fuels

Best Publications

  • Metaphors we live by

    G. Lakoff;M. Johnson;T. Eglinton;D. Fuller

  • Current perspectives on gas hydrate resources

    Ray Boswell;Timothy S. Collett

  • Energy resource potential of natural gas hydrates

    Timothy S. Collett

  • Elastic‐wave velocity in marine sediments with gas hydrates: Effective medium modeling

    M. B. Helgerud;J. Dvorkin;A. Nur;A. Sakai

  • Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Assessment of Resources, Technology and Potential

    George J. Moridis;Timothy Scott Collett;Ray Boswell;Masanori Kurihara

  • Scientific Results from the Mallik 2002 Gas Hydrate Production Research Well Program, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada

    S R Dallimore;T S Collett

  • Seismic velocities for hydrate-bearing sediments using weighted equation

    M.W. Lee;D.R. Hutchinson;T.S. Collett;William P. Dillon

  • Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Current Status, Assessment of Resources, and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Technology and Potential

    George J. Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Ray Boswell;Masanori Kurihara

  • Three-dimensional distribution of gas hydrate beneath southern Hydrate Ridge: Constraints from ODP Leg 204

    Anne M Tréhu;Philip E Long;Marta E Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Natural Gas Hydrates of the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River Area, North Slope, Alaska

    Timothy S. Collett

  • Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

    George Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Mehran Pooladi-Darvish;Steven H. Hancock

  • Numerical studies of gas production from several CH4 hydrate zones at the Mallik site, Mackenzie Delta, Canada

    George J. Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Scott R. Dallimore;Tohru Satoh

  • Subsurface gas hydrates in the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Ray Boswell;Timothy S. Collett;Matthew Frye;William Shedd

  • The Iġnik Sikumi Field Experiment, Alaska North Slope: Design, Operations, and Implications for CO2–CH4 Exchange in Gas Hydrate Reservoirs

    Ray Boswell;David Schoderbek;Timothy S. Collett;Satoshi Ohtsuki

  • Permafrost-associated natural gas hydrate occurrences on the Alaska North Slope

    Timothy S. Collett;Myung W. Lee;Warren F. Agena;John J. Miller

  • Gas hydrate saturations estimated from fractured reservoir at Site NGHP-01-10, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India

    M. W. Lee;T. S. Collett

  • Methane Hydrates in Nature—Current Knowledge and Challenges

    Tim Collett;Jang-Jun Bahk;Rick Baker;Ray Boswell

  • Scientific Results from JAPEX/JNOC/GSC Mallik 2L-38 Gas Hydrate Research Well, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada

    S R Dallimore;T Uchida;T S Collett

  • Holocene aridification of India

    Camilo Ponton;Liviu Giosan;Timothy I. Eglinton;Timothy I. Eglinton;Dorian Q. Fuller

  • Detection of gas hydrate with downhole logs and assessment of gas hydrate concentrations (saturations) and gas volumes on the Blake Ridge with electrical resistivity log data

    Timothy S. Collett;John Ladd

  • Natural Gas Hydrates Energy Resource Potential and Associated Geologic Hazards

    T. Collett;A. Johnson;C. Knapp;R. Boswell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Boswell
Ray Boswell United States Department of Energy
Myung W. Lee
Myung W. Lee United States Geological Survey
Scott R. Dallimore
Scott R. Dallimore Geological Survey of Canada
George J. Moridis
George J. Moridis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael Riedel
Michael Riedel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marta E Torres
Marta E Torres Oregon State University
William F. Waite
William F. Waite United States Geological Survey
Philip E. Long
Philip E. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anne M. Tréhu
Anne M. Tréhu Oregon State University
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin

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