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Bohn, C., Reilly, M.J., Valenti, J., Seren, D., Flemings, P.B., Ertekin, T.E., in review, Accommodation history, reservoir architecture, and production behavior in N and O sands of the Auger Field, deepater Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Bulletin. PDF

Moore, J.C., Iturrino, G.J., Flemings, P.B., Sawyer, D.E., in review, Data Report: Stress Orientations from Borehole Breakouts, IODP Expedition 308, Ursa Area, Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308. PDF

Gilhooly, W.P., Macko, S.A., and Flemings, P.B., in press, Data Report: Isotope Compositions of Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen from Ursa Basin (Sites U1322 and U1324) and Brazos-Trinity Basin #4 (Sites U1319 and U1320), deepwater Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308.

Dugan, B., and Germaine, J.T., 2009, Data Report: Strength Characteristics of Sediments from IODP Expedition 308, Sites U1322 and U1324, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308, doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.308.210.2009. PDF

Liu, X. and P.B. Flemings, 2009, Dynamic Response of Oceanic Hydrates to Sea Level Drop, Geophysical Research Letters, V. 36, L17308, doi:10.1029/2009GL039821. PDF

Nelson, H.M., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J.T., Dugan, B.E., 2009, Data Report: Radiography and X-ray CT Imaging of Whole Core from IODP Expedition 308, Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308, doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.308.213.2009. PDF

Sawyer, D. E., P. B. Flemings, B. Dugan, and J. T. Germaine (2009), Retrogressive failures recorded in mass transport deposits in the Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B10102, doi:10.1029/2008JB006159. PDF

Schneider, J., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B.E., Long, H., Germaine, J.T., 2009, Overpressure and consolidation near the seafloor of Brazos-Trinity Basin IV, Northwest Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B05102, doi:10.1029/2008JB005922. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Long, H., Dugan, B., Germaine, J., John, C., Behrmann, J.H., Sawyer, D., and Expedition 308 Scientists, 2008, Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 269/3-4, p. 309-32, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.027. PDF

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B., Germaine, J.T., Ferrell, D., 2008, Data Report: Penetrometer Measurements of In situ Temperature and Pressure on IODP Expedition 308, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308. PDF

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J.T., Saffer, D., Dugan, B.E., 2008, Data Report: Consolidation Characteristics of Sediments from IODP Expedition 308, Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308. PDF

Sawyer, A.H., Flemings, P.B., Elsworth, D.E., and Kinoshita, M., 2008, Response of Submarine Hydrologic Monitoring Instruments to Formation Pressure Changes: Theory and Application to Nankai Advanced CORKs, Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 113, B01102, doi:10.1029/2007JB005132. PDF

Sawyer, D.E., Jacoby, R., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J.T., 2008, Data Report: Particle Size Analysis of Sediments in the Ursa Basin, IODP Expedition 308 Site U1324 and U1322, Northern Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308. PDF

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., Sawyer, D., Iturrino, G.J., Moore, J.C., Schneider, J., 2007, Physical Properties of Mass Transport Complexes in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico (IODP Expedition 308) Determined from Log, Core, and Seismic Data, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18704. PDF

Iturrino, G.J., Dugan, B.E., Sawyer, D., Flemings, P.B., Moore, J.C., 2007, Interpretation of Downhole Measurements, Deformation Analyses, and Lithologic Characterization in the Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #19097. PDF

Liu, X., and P. B. Flemings, 2007, Dynamic multiphase flow model of hydrate formation in marine sediments, J. Geophys Res., 112, B03101, doi:10.1029/2005JB004227. PDF

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J.T., 2007, Interpreting In situ Pressure and Hydraulic Properties with Borehole Penetrometers in Ocean Drilling: DVTPP and Piezoprobe Deployments at Southern Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, B04101, doi:10.1029/2005JB004165. PDF

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J., Dugan, B., Sawyer, D., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2007, In Situ Pore Pressure at IODP Site U1324, Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18772. PDF

Moore, J.C., Iturrino, G.J., Flemings, P.B., Hull, I., Gay, A., 2007, Fluid Migration and State of Stress above the Blue Unit, Ursa Basin: Relationship to the Geometry of Injectites, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18812. PDF

Ramgulam, A., Ertekin, T., Flemings, P.B., 2007, Utilization of Artificial Neural Networks in the Optimization of History Matching, Society of Petroleum Engineers Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Buenow Aires, Argentina, April 15-18, SPE #107468. PDF

Sawyer, D., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2007, Lateral Variations in Core, Log, and Seismic Attributes of a Mass Transport Complex in the Ursa Region, IODP Expedition 308, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #19098. PDF

Sawyer, D.E., Flemings, P.B., Shipp, C., Winker, C., 2007, Seismic Geomorphology, Lithology, and Evolution of the Late Pleistocene Mars-Ursa Turbidite Mini-Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Bulletin, V.91, no. 2, pp. 215-234. PDF

Behrmann, J.H., Flemings, P.B., John, C.M., and the Expedition 308 Scientists, 2006, Rapid Sedimentation, Overpressure and Focused Fluid Flow, Gulf of Mexico continental margin, Scientific Drilling, Vol. 3, pp. 12-17. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.3.03.2006. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J., Long, H., Dugan, B., Sawyer, D., Behrmann, J.H., John, C., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2006, Measuring Temperature and Pressure with the Temperature Two Pressure (T2P) Probe in the Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico: Development of a New Pressure and Temperature Probe for the IODP, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 1-4, 2006, OTC Paper #17957. PDF

Liu, X., Flemings, P.B., 2006, Passing gas through the hydrate stability zone at southern Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 241, p. 211-226. PDF

Tan, B., Germaine, J.T., and Flemings, P.B., 2006, Data report: Consolidation and strength characteristics of sediments from ODP Site 1244, Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia continental margin. In Tréhu, A.M., Bohrmann, G., Torres, M.E., and Colwell, F.S. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 204. PDF

Expedition 308 Scientists, 2005. Overpressure and fluid flow processes in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: slope stability, seeps, and shallow-water flow. IODP Prel. Rept., 308. doi:10:2204/iodp.pr.308.2005. PDF

Seldon, B., Flemings, P.B., 2005, Reservoir Pressure and Seafloor Venting: Predicting Trap Integrity in a Deepwater Turbidite Reservoir, AAPG Bulletin, v. 89, no. 2, p. 193-209. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Lupa, J., 2004, Pressure Prediction in the Bullwinkle Basin through Petrophysics and Flow Modeling (Green Canyon 65, Gulf of Mexico), Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 21, p. 1311-1322. PDF

Trehu, A., Flemings, P.B., Bangs, N. L., Chevallier, J., Gracia, E., Johnson, J. E., Liu, C.-S., Liu, Xiaoli, Riedel, M., Torres, M.E., 2004, Feeding methane vents and gas hydrate deposits at south Hydrate Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L23310, 4 pgs. PDF

Dugan, B.E., Flemings, P.B., Olgaard, D.L., Gooch, M.J., 2003, Consolidation Behavior, Stress, and Pressure of Sediments from ODP Site 1073, US Mid-Atlantic Continental Slope, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 215, p. 13-26. PDF

Dugan, B., et al., 2003, Measuring Pore Pressure in Marine Sediments with Penetrometers: Comparison of the Piezoprobe and DVTP-P Tools in ODP Leg 204, Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows, v. 3, p. 179-199. PDF

Elsworth, D., Lee, D.S., Long, H., Flemings, P.B., 2003, Penetration-Induced Pore Pressure Magnitudes - Methods to Determine Transport Parameters from terrestrial and Marine Penetrometer Testing, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geosystems: Fundamentals, Modelling, Experiments and Applications, Stockholm, Sweden, October 13-15, 2003. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Liu, X., Winters, W., 2003, Critical Pressure and Multiphase Flow in Blake Ridge Gas Hydrates, Geology, v. 31, no. 12, p. 1057-1060. PDF

Swanston, A.M., Flemings, P.B., Comisky, J.T., Best, K.D., 2003, Time-lapse imaging at Bullwinkle field, Green Canyon 65, offshore Gulf of Mexico, Geophysics, v. 68, no.5, p. 1470-1484. PDF

Yuvancic-Strickland B., Kuhl, E.J., Lee, T.W., Seldon, B.J., Flemings, P.B., Ertekin, T., 2003, Integration Of Geologic Model And Reservoir Simulation, Popeye Field, Green Canyon 116, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS), v. 53, p. 918-932. PDF

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., 2002, Fluid Flow and Stability of the US Continental Slope, Offshore New Jersey from the Pleistocene to the Present, Geofluids, 2(2), 137-146. PDF

Dugan, B., Olgaard, D.L., Flemings, P.B., and Gooch, M.J., 2002, Data Report: Bulk Physical Properties of Sediments from ODP Site 1073, Christie-Blick, N. Austin, J.A., Jr., and Malone, M.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 174A. PDF

Flemings P.B., Stump, B.B., Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., 2002, Flow Focusing in Overpressured Sandstones: Theory, Observations, and Applications , American Journal of Science, v. 302, p. 827-855. PDF

Liu, X., Flemings, P.B., 2002, Stress-limited Gas Column Height in the Gas Hydrate System of Blake Ridge, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Yokohama, Japan, May 19-23, v. 2, p. 807-812. PDF

Lupa, J.A., Flemings, P.B., Tennant, S., 2002, Pressure and Trap Integrity in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, The Leading Edge, V. 21, no. 1, p. 84-87. PDF

Mikada, H., Becker, K., Moore, J.C., Klaus, A., Leg 196 Shipboard Scientific Party, 2002, ODP Leg 196: Logging-While-Drilling and Advanced CORKs at the Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism, JOIDES Journal, v. 28, no.2, p. 8-12. PDF

Stump, B, Flemings, P.B., 2002, Consolidation State, Permeability, and Stress Ratio as Determined from Uniaxial Strain Experiments on Mud Samples from the Eugene Island 330 Area, Offshore Louisiana, in: A.R. Huffman and G.L. Bowers, eds., Pressure Regimes in Sedimentary Basins and Their Prediction: AAPG Memoir 76, p. 131-144. PDF

Cookman, J., Flemings, P.B., 2001, STORMSED1.0: Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in a 2-D Steady-State, Wind- and Wave-Driven, Coastal Circulation Model, Computers and Geosciences, v. 27, p. 647-674. PDF

Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., Stump B.B., Flemings, P.B., 2001, Stress, Pore Pressure, and Dynamically Constrained Hydrocarbon Columns in the South Eugene Island 330 Field, Gulf of Mexico, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, V. 85, no. 6, p. 1007-1031. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Comisky, J., Liu, X., Lupa, J.A., 2001, Stress-Controlled Porosity in Overpressured Sands at Bullwinkle (GC65), Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, OTC Paper #13103. PDF

Burkhart, T.D., Hoover, A.R., Flemings, P.B., 2000, Time-lapse seismic monitoring of the K8 and K40 reservoirs, South Timbalier block 295, offshore Louisiana, Geophysics, v. 65, no. 2, p. 351-367. PDF

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., 2000, Overpressure and Fluid Flow in the New Jersey Continental Slope: Implications for Slope Failure and Cold Seeps, Science, V. 289, p. 288-291. PDF

Dugan, B.E. and Flemings, P.B., 2000, The New Jersey Margin: Compaction and Fluid Flow, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, pp. 477-481. PDF

Metzger, J.M., Flemings, P.B., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G. S., Austin Jr., J., Hesselbo, S., 2000, Late Miocene to Pleistocene sequences at the New Jersey outer continental shelf (ODP Leg 174A, Sites 1071 and 1072), Sedimentary Geology, v. 134, no. 1-2, p. 149-180. PDF

Stump, B.B. and Flemings, P.B., 2000, Overpressure and Fluid Flow in Dipping Structures of the offshore Gulf of Mexico (EI330 field). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, pp. 23-28. PDF

Gordon, D. and Flemings, P., 1999, Two-Dimensional Modeling of Groundwater Flow in an Evolving Deltaic Environment. Society for Sedimentary Geology. SEPM Special Publication #63. PDF

Hoover, A.R., Burkhart, T.D., Flemings, P.B., 1999, Reservoir and Production Analysis of the K40 Sand, South Timbalier 295, Offshore Louisiana, with Comparison to Time-Lapse (4-D) Seismic Results, AAPG Bulletin, v. 83, no. 10, p. 1624-1641. PDF

Chang, C., Zoback, M., Flemings, P.B., 1998, Mechanical Properties of the Lentic Sand in Eugene Island 330 Field (Offshore Louisiana), GRI-99/0241. PDF

Dugan, B.E., Flemings, P.B., 1998, Pore Pressure Prediction from Stacking Velocities in the Eugene Island 330 Field (Offshore Louisiana), GRI-98/0303. PDF

Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., Flemings, P.B., 1998, Characterization of the Full Stress Tensor in Eugene Island Block 330, Offshore Gulf of Mexico, GRI-98/0072. PDF

Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., Stump, B., and Flemings, P.B., 1998, In situ stress, pore pressure, and hydrocarbon migration in the South Eugene Island Field, Gulf of Mexico. Overpressures in Petroleum Expploration: Proc. Workshop, Pau, April 1998 Bull. Centre Rech, Elf Explor. Prod., Mem. 22, 103-110. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Siahaan, V., Hicks, P.J., and Stump, B., 1998, Secondary migration via fracture permeability in shales: illuminating the relationship between pressure, stress, and column height, Overpressures in Petroleum Exploration: Proc. Workshop, Pau, April 1998 Bull. Centre Rech, Elf Explor. Prod., Mem. 22, 111-116. PDF

Gordon, D.S., Flemings, P.B., 1998, Generation of Overpressure and Compaction-Driven Fluid Flow in a Plio-Pleistocene Growth-Faulted Basin, Eugene Island 330, Offshore Louisiana, Basin Research, v. 10, p. 177-196. PDF

Poulsen, C.P., Flemings, P.B., Robinson, R.A. J., Metzger, J.M., 1998, Three-Dimensional stratigraphic evolution of the Miocene Baltimore Canyon region: Implications for eustatic interpretations and the systems tract model. GSA Bulletin, v. 110, no. 9; p 1105-1122. PDF

Rowan, M.G., Hart, B.S., Nelson, S., Flemings, P.B., Trudgill, B.D, 1998, Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a salt-related growth-fault array: Eugene Island 330 field, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Marine & Petroleum Geology, v. 15, p. 309-328. PDF

Stump, B.B., Flemings, P.B., 1998, Sediment Loading and Resulting Pressure Differences Between Overpressured Sands and Bounding Shales of the Eugene Island 330 Field (Offshore Louisiana), GRI-97/0266. PDF

Stump, B.B., Flemings, P.B., Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M.D., 1998, Pressure differences between overpressured sands and bounding shales of the Eugene Island 330 field (Offshore Louisiana, U.S.A.) with implications for fluid flow induced by sediment loading, Overpressures in Petroleum Exploration: Proc. Workshop, Pau, April 1998 Bull. Centre Rech, Elf Explor. Prod., Mem. 22, 83-92. PDF

Deshpande, A., Flemings, P.B., and Huang, J., 1997, Quantifying lateral heterogeneities in fluvio-deltaic sediments using 3-D reflection seismic data: offshore Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, no. B7, p.15,385 - 15,401. PDF

Hart, B.S., Sibley, D.M., and Flemings, P.B., 1997, Seismic stratigraphy, facies architecture, and reservoir character of a Pleistocene shelf margin delta complex, Eugene Island Block 330 Field, Louisiana Offshore, AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, no. 3, p. 380-397. PDF

Finkbeiner, T., Stump, B.B., Zoback, M., Flemings, P.B., 1996, Pressure (Pp), Overburden (Sv), and Minimum Horizontal Stress (Shmin) in Eugene Island Block 330, Offshore Gulf of Mexico, GRI-96/0285. PDF

Flemings, P.B., and Grotzinger, J.P., 1996, STRATA: Freeware for Solving Classic Stratigraphic Problems. GSA Today, v. 6, no. 12, p. 1-7. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Hoover, A.R., Burkhart, T., and Nelson, S.E., 1996, A Case Study of Amplitudes in Drained Pay: The EI-330 LF Sand: In Pacht, J.A., Sheriff, R.E., and Perkins, B.F., eds., Stratigraphic Analysis Utilizing Geophysical, Wireline and Borehole Technology for Petroleum Exploration and Production: Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation Seventeenth Annual Research Conference, p. 99-110. PDF

Hart, B.S., Sibley, D.M., and Flemings, P.B., 1996, Reservoir compartmentalization by depositional features in a Pleistocene shelf margin (lowstand) delta complex, Eugene Island 330 Field, Louisiana Offshore, In Weimer, P. and Davis, T. eds., AAPG Studies in Geology No. 42 and SEG Geophysical Development Series No. 5, AAPG/SEG Tulsa, p. 21-26. PDF

Jordan, T.E., Tamm, V., Figueroa, G., Flemings, P.B., Richards, D., Tabbutt, K., Cheatham, T., 1996, Development of the Miocene Manantiales foreland basin, Principal Cordillera, San Juan, Argentina. Revista Geologica de Chile, v. 23, no. 1, p. 43-79. PDF

Rowan, M.G., Villamil, T., Flemings, P.B., and Weimer, P., 1996, Use of cross-section restoration to determine paleobathymetry and sea-floor topography in the Gulf of Mexico basin, Geology, v. 24, no. 4, pp. 299-302. PDF

Alexander, L.L., Flemings, P.B., 1995, Geologic Evolution of a Plio-Pleistocene Salt Withdrawal Mini-basin: Block 330, Eugene Island, South Addition, Offshore Louisiana, AAPG Bulletin, v. 79, no. 12, pp. 1737-1756. PDF

Hart, B.S., Flemings, P.B., Deshpande, A., 1995, Porosity and Pressure: Role of Compaction Disequilibrium in the Development of Geopressures in a Gulf Coast Pleistocene Basin, Geology, v.23, no.1, p.45-48. PDF

Anderson, R.N., Flemings, P.B., Losh, S., Austin, J., Woodhams, R.L., and Global Basins Research Network Field Demonstration Team, 1994, In Situ Properties of a Major Gulf of Mexico Growth Fault: Implications for Behavior as a Hydrocarbon Migration Pathway, Oil & Gas Journal, v. 92, no. 23, pp. 97-104. PDF

Rothman, D.H., Grotzinger, J., Flemings, P.B., 1994, Scaling in Turbidite Deposition, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. A64, no. 1, pp. 59-67. PDF

Rowan, M.G., Weimer, P. and Flemings, P.B., 1994, Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a composite, multi-level salt system, western Eugene Island, offshore Louisiana, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Associations of Geological Societies, v. 44, pp. 641-648. PDF

 

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