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Peter B. Flemings is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and conducts research primarily in engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and geophysics.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics:

  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Drilling and well engineering
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes

Flemings has published extensively, with numerous papers featured in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • AAPG Bulletin
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Offshore Technology Conference
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • "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
  • "Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a deep-water gas hydrate reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico," 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • "High concentration methane hydrate in a silt reservoir from the deep-water Gulf of Mexico," 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • "Petrophysical properties of the Green Canyon Block 955 hydrate reservoir inferred from reconstituted sediments: Implications for hydrate formation and production," 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • "Pore-scale evidence of ion exclusion during methane hydrate growth and evolution of hydrate pore-habit in sandy sediments," 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including Kehua You, Stephen C. Phillips, Ann E. Cook, K. Meazell, and Hugh Daigle.

In addition to journal articles, Flemings has contributed to book publications. One notable book is A Concise Guide to Geopressure, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A synthetic stratigraphic model of foreland basin development

    Peter B. Flemings;Teresa E. Jordan

  • Stratigraphic modeling of foreland basins: Interpreting thrust deformation and lithosphere rheology

    Peter Barry Flemings;Teresa E. Jordan

  • Overpressure and Fluid Flow in the New Jersey Continental Slope: Implications for Slope Failure and Cold Seeps

    Brandon Dugan;Peter B. Flemings

  • Dynamic multiphase flow model of hydrate formation in marine sediments

    Xiaoli Liu;Xiaoli Liu;Peter Barry Flemings

  • Large-scale stratigraphic architecture, eustatic variation, and unsteady tectonism: A theoretical evaluation

    T. E. Jordan;P. B. Flemings

  • Passing gas through the hydrate stability zone at southern Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon

    Xiaoli Liu;Peter Barry Flemings

  • Porosity and pressure: Role of compaction disequilibrium in the development of geopressures in a Gulf Coast Pleistocene basin

    B. S. Hart;P. B. Flemings;A. Deshpande

  • Stress, pore pressure, and dynamically constrained hydrocarbon columns in the South Eugene Island 330 field, northern Gulf of Mexico

    Thomas Finkbeiner;Mark Zoback;Peter Flemings;Beth Stump

  • Feeding methane vents and gas hydrate deposits at south Hydrate Ridge

    Anne Martine Tréhu;Peter B. Flemings;Nathan Lawrence Bailey Bangs;Johanna Chevallier

  • Anisotropy and Stress Dependence of Permeability in the Barnett Shale

    Athma R Bhandari;Peter Barry Flemings;Peter J. Polito;Michael B. Cronin

  • Dating Thrust-Fault Activity by Use of Foreland-Basin Strata

    Teresa E. Jordan;Peter B. Flemings;James A. Beer

  • Mechanisms of Methane Hydrate Formation in Geological Systems

    Kehua You;Peter B. Flemings;Alberto Malinverno;Timothy Collett

  • Critical pressure and multiphase flow in Blake Ridge gas hydrates

    Peter B. Flemings;Xiaoli Liu;William J. Winters

  • Subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimentary basins: an overview

    Mads Huuse;Christopher A.-L. Jackson;Pieter Van Rensbergen;Richard J. Davies

  • Scaling in Turbidite Deposition

    Daniel H. Rothman;John P. Grotzinger;Peter Flemings

  • Flow focusing in overpressured sandstones: Theory, observations, and applications

    Peter Barry Flemings;Beth B. Stump;Beth B. Stump;Thomas Finkbeiner;Thomas Finkbeiner;Mark Zoback

  • Insights into pore-scale controls on mudstone permeability through resedimentation experiments

    Julia Schneider;Peter Barry Flemings;Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat;John T. Germaine

  • Retrogressive failures recorded in mass transport deposits in the Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Derek E. Sawyer;Peter B. Flemings;Brandon Dugan;John T. Germaine

  • Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

    P. B. Flemings;H. Long;B. Dugan;J. Germaine

  • Seismic geomorphology, lithology, and evolution of the late Pleistocene Mars-Ursa turbidite region, Mississippi Canyon area, northern Gulf of Mexico

    Derek E. Sawyer;Peter Barry Flemings;R. Craig Shipp;Charles D. Winker

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Germaine
John T. Germaine Tufts University
Brandon Dugan
Brandon Dugan Colorado School of Mines
Michael R. Hudec
Michael R. Hudec The University of Texas at Austin
Cédric M. John
Cédric M. John Imperial College London
Jan H. Behrmann
Jan H. Behrmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Demian M. Saffer
Demian M. Saffer The University of Texas at Austin
David A. DiCarlo
David A. DiCarlo The University of Texas at Austin
Timothy Byrne
Timothy Byrne University of Connecticut
Teresa E. Jordan
Teresa E. Jordan Cornell University
Weiren Lin
Weiren Lin Kyoto University

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