Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Kenya Suzuki, Ryota Wada, Yoshihiro Konno, Kazuo Hiekata, Takashi Nanjo, Sadao Nagakubo, Impact of epistemic uncertainty on tradeoff in model-based decision support for methane hydrate development system design, Applied Energy, 356, 122408-122408, February 2024
  2. Masato Kida, Jun Yoneda, Akira Masui, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Jiro Nagao, Mechanical properties of polycrystalline tetrahydrofuran hydrates as analogs for massive natural gas hydrates, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 96, December 2021
  3. Yoshihiro Konno, Tetsuya Fujii, Akihiko Sato, Koya Akamine, Motoyoshi Naiki, Yoshihiro Masuda, Koji Yamamoto, and Jiro Nagao, Influence of Flow Properties on Gas Productivity in Gas-Hydrate Reservoirs: What Can We Learn from Offshore Production Tests?, Energy & Fuels, 35(10), 8733-8741, May 2021
  4. Yoshihiro Konno & Jiro Nagao, Methane Hydrate in Marine Sands: Its Reservoir Properties, Gas Production Behaviors, and Enhanced Recovery Methods. Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute, 64(3), 113-122, May 2021
  5. M.D. White, T.J. Kneafsey, Y. Seol, W.F. Waite, S. Uchida, J.S. Lin, E.M. Myshakin, X. Gai, S. Gupta, M.T. Reagan, A.F. Queiruga, S. Kimoto, R.C. Baker, R. Boswell, J. Ciferno, T. Collett, J. Choi, S. Dai, M. De La Fuente, P. Fu, T. Fujii, C.G. Intihar, J. Jang, X. Ju, J. Kang, J.H. Kim, J.T. Kim, S.J. Kim, C. Koh, Y. Konno, K. Kumagai, J.Y. Lee, W.S. Lee, L. Lei, F. Liu, H. Luo, G.J. Moridis, J. Morris, M. Nole, S. Otsuki, M. Sanchez, S. Shang, C. Shin, H.S. Shin, K. Soga, X. Sun, S. Suzuki, N. Tenma, T. Xu, K. Yamamoto, J. Yoneda, C.M. Yonkofski, H.C. Yoon, K. You, Y. Yuan, L. Zerpa, M. Zyrianova, An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 120, 104566, October 2020
  6. 今野義浩，米田純，神裕介，ガスハイドレート胚胎堆積物を対象とした圧力コア解析技術の展望，石油技術協会誌，85(3) ，157–165，2020年5月
  7. Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Jun Yoneda, Yoshihiro Konno, Motoi Oshima, Norio Tenma, & Jiro Nagao, Natural Gas Hydrates Recovered from the Umitaka Spur in the Joetsu Basin, Japan: Coexistence of Two Structure-I Hydrates with Distinctly Different Textures and Gas Compositions within a Massive Structure. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 4, 1, 77-85, 16 January 2020
  8. Jun Yoneda, Masato Kida, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Sumito Morita, & Norio Tenma, In situ mechanical properties of shallow gas hydrate deposits in the deep seabed. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(24), 14459-14468, 28 December 2019
  9. Motoi Oshima, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Jun Yoneda, Akira Kato, Masato Kida, Yoshihiro Konno, Michihiro Muraoka, Yusuke Jin, Jiro Nagao, Norio Tenma, Lithological properties of natural gas hydrate–bearing sediments in pressure-cores recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 439-470, October 2019
  10. Akira Kato, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Masato Kida, Motoi Oshima, Yusuke Jin, Jiro Nagao, Norio Tenma, Evaluation of failure modes and undrained shear strength by cone penetrometer for Natural Gas hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediment samples recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 502-511, October 2019
  11. Masato Kida, Yusuke Jin, Jun Yoneda, Motoi Oshima, Akira Kato, Yoshihiro Konno, Jiro Nagao, Norio Tenma, Crystallographic and geochemical properties of natural gas hydrates accumulated in the National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 drilling sites in the Krishna-Godavari Basin off India, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 471-481, October 2019
  12. Jun Yoneda, Motoi Oshima, Masato Kida, Akira Kato, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Junbong Jang, William F Waite, Pushpendra Kumar, Norio Tenma, Pressure core based onshore laboratory analysis on mechanical properties of hydrate-bearing sediments recovered during India’s National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition (NGHP) 02, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 482-501, October 2019
  13. Jun Yoneda, Motoi Oshima, Masato Kida, Akira Kato, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Norio Tenma, Consolidation and hardening behavior of hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediments recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 512-523, October 2019
  14. Ray Boswell, Evgeniy Myshakin, George Moridis, Yoshihiro Konno, Timothy S Collett, Matthew Reagan, Taiwo Ajayi, Yongkoo Seol, India National gas hydrate program expedition 02 summary of scientific results: Numerical simulation of reservoir response to depressurization, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 154-166, October 2019
  15. Yoshihiro Konno, Akira Kato, Jun Yoneda, Motoi Oshima, Masato Kida, Yusuke Jin, Jiro Nagao, Norio Tenma, Numerical analysis of gas production potential from a gas-hydrate reservoir at Site NGHP-02-16, the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India–Feasibility of depressurization method for ultra-deepwater environment, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 731-740, October 2019
  16. Jun Yoneda, Motoi Oshima, Masato Kida, Akira Kato, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Junbong Jang, William F Waite, Pushpendra Kumar, Norio Tenma, Permeability variation and anisotropy of gas hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediments recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 108, 524-536, October 2019
  17. Jun Katagiri, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, and Norio Tenma, Pore-scale modeling of flow in particle packs containing grain-coating and pore-filling hydrates: Verification of a Kozeny–Carman-based permeability reduction model, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 45, 537–551, 2017
  18. Jun Yoneda, Akira Masui, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Jun Katagiri, Jiro Nagao, and Norio Tenma, Pressure-core-based reservoir characterization for geomechanics: Insights from gas hydrate drilling during 2012–2013 at the eastern Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86, 1–16, 2017
  19. Yoshihiro Konno, Tetsuya Fujii, Akihiko Sato, Koya Akamine, Motoyoshi Naiki, Yoshihiro Masuda, Koji Yamamoto, and Jiro Nagao, Key Findings of the World’s First Offshore Methane Hydrate Production Test off the Coast of Japan: Toward Future Commercial Production, Energy & Fuels, 31 (3), 2607–2616, 2017
  20. Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Yoshihiro Konno, and Jiro Nagao, Clathrate Hydrate Equilibrium in Methane–Water Systems with the Addition of Monosaccharide and Sugar Alcohol, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 62(1), 440–444, 2017
  21. Masato Kida, Mizuho Watanabe, Yusuke Jin, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Koji Yamamoto, and Jiro Nagao, Hydrate Equilibrium Conditions for Water, Diethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether Acetate, and Methane, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 61(10), 3692–3697, 2016
  22. Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Jun Yoneda, Takashi Uchiumi, Kazunori Shinjou and Jiro Nagao, Hydraulic fracturing in methane-hydrate-bearing sand, RSC Advances, 6, 73148–73155, 2016
  23. Yusuke Jin, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Masato Kida, Jiro Nagao, In Situ Methane Hydrate Morphology Investigation: Natural Gas Hydrate-Bearing Sediment Recovered from the Eastern Nankai Trough Area, Energy & Fuels, 30(7), 5547–5554, 2016
  24. Yoshihiro Konno, Yoshihiro Masuda, Koya Akamine, Motoyoshi Naiki, Jiro Nagao, Sustainable gas production from methane hydrate reservoirs by the cyclic depressurization method, Energy Conversion and Management, 108, 439–445, 2016
  25. Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Kosuke Egawa, Takuma Ito, Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Fujii, and Jiro Nagao, Permeability of sediment cores from methane hydrate deposit in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 487–495, 2015
  26. Jun Yoneda, Akira Masui, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Kosuke Egawa, Masato Kida, Takuma Ito, Jiro Nagao, and Norio Tenma, Mechanical properties of hydrate-bearing turbidite reservoir in the first gas production test site of the Eastern Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 471–486, 2015
  27. Jun Yoneda, Akira Masui, Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Kosuke Egawa, Masato Kida, Takuma Ito, Jiro Nagao, and Norio Tenma, Mechanical behavior of hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediments visualized under triaxial compression, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 451–459, 2015
  28. J.C. Santamarina, S. Dai, M. Terzariol, J. Jang, W.F. Waite, W.J. Winters, J. Nagao, J. Yoneda, Y. Konno, T. Fujii, and K. Suzuki, Hydro-bio-geomechanical properties of hydrate-bearing sediments from Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 434–450, 2015
  29. Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Jun Yoneda, Masato Kida, Kosuke Egawa, Takuma Ito, Kiyofumi Suzuki, and Jiro Nagao, Effect of methane hydrate morphology on compressional wave velocity of sandy sediments: Analysis of pressure cores obtained in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 425–433, 2015
  30. Masato Kida, Yusuke Jin, Mizuho Watanabe, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Kosuke Egawa, Takuma Ito, Yoshihiro Nakatsuka, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Fujii, and Jiro Nagao, Chemical and crystallographic characterizations of natural gas hydrates recovered from a production test site in the eastern Nankai Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 396–403, 2015
  31. Kosuke Egawa, Okio Nishimura, Shoko Izumi, Eiji Fukami, Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Takuma Ito, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Nakatsuka, and Jiro Nagao, Bulk sediment mineralogy of gas hydrate reservoir at the East Nankai offshore production test site, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 379–387, 2015
  32. Takuma Ito, Yuhei Komatsu, Tetsuya Fujii, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Kosuke Egawa, Yoshihiro Nakatsuka, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Yusuke Jin, Masato Kida, Jiro Nagao, and Hideki Minagawa, Lithological features of hydrate-bearing sediments and their relationship with gas hydrate saturation in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 368–378, 2015
  33. Tetsuya Fujii, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Tokujiro Takayama, Machiko Tamaki, Yuhei Komatsu, Yoshihiro Konno, Jun Yoneda, Koji Yamamoto, and Jiro Nagao, Geological setting and characterization of a methane hydrate reservoir distributed at the first offshore production test site on the Daini-Atsumi Knoll in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66(2), 310–322, 2015
  34. Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Kazunori Shinjou, and Jiro Nagao, Experimental evaluation of the gas recovery factor of methane hydrate in sandy sediment, RSC Advances, 4(93), 51666–51675, 2014
  35. Yusuke Jin, Yoshihiro Konno, and Jiro Nagao, Pressurized subsampling system for pressured gas-hydrate-bearing sediment: Microscale imaging using X-ray computed tomography, Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(9), article#094502, 2014
  36. Yoshihiro Konno, Yusuke Jin, Takashi Uchiumi, and Jiro Nagao, Multiple-pressure-tapped core holder combined with X-ray computed tomography scanning for gas–water permeability measurements of methane-hydrate-bearing sediments, Review of Scientific Instruments, 84(6), article#064501, 2013
  37. Yoshihiro Konno, Takashi Uchiumi, Hiroyuki Oyama, Yusuke Jin, Jiro Nagao, Yoshihiro Masuda, and Hisanao Ouchi, Dissociation Behavior of Methane Hydrate in Sandy Porous Media below the Quadruple Point, Energy & Fuels, 26(7), 4310–4320, 2012
  38. Yusuke Jin, Yoshihiro Konno, and Jiro Nagao, Growth of Methane Clathrate Hydrates in Porous Media, Energy & Fuels, 26(4), 2242–2247, 2012
  39. Hiroyuki Oyama, Yoshihiro Konno, Kiyofumi Suzuki, and Jiro Nagao, Depressurized dissociation of methane-hydrate-bearing natural cores with low permeability, Chemical Engineering Science, 68(1), 595–605, 2012
  40. Yoshihiro Konno, Hiroyuki Oyama, Jiro Nagao, Yoshihiro Masuda, and Masanori Kurihara, Numerical Analysis of the Dissociation Experiment of Naturally Occurring Gas Hydrate in Sediment Cores Obtained at the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan, Energy & Fuels, 24(12), 6353–6358, 2010
  41. Yoshihiro Konno, Yoshihiro Masuda, Yosuke Hariguchi, Masanori Kurihara, and Hisanao Ouchi, Key Factors for Depressurization-Induced Gas Production from Oceanic Methane Hydrates, Energy & Fuels, 24(3), 1736–1744, 2010
  42. Hiroyuki Oyama, Yoshihiro Konno, Yoshihiro Masuda, and Hideo Narita, Dependence of Depressurization-Induced Dissociation of Methane Hydrate Bearing Laboratory Cores on Heat Transfer, Energy & Fuels, 23(10), 4995–5002, 2009
  43. 今野義浩，増田昌敬，大山裕之，栗原正典，大内久尚，メタンハイドレートコアの減圧法実験におけるガス生産律速因子の解析，石油技術協会誌, 74(2), 165–174, 2009

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