2017 Expedition Proceedings
Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition
Publications
For presentations, see below.
Cardona, A., Bhandari, A. R., Heidari, M., and Flemings, P. B., 2023, The Viscoplastic Behavior of Natural Hydrate‐Bearing Sandy‐Silts Under Uniaxial Strain Compression ( K 0 Loading). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 128, issue 7. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026976
Varona, G. M., Flemings, P. B., Portnov, A., 2023, Hydrate-bearing sands record the transition from ponded deposition to bypass in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106172
Chen, X., Espinoza, D.N., Tisato, N., and Flemings, P.B., 2022, Gas Permeability, Pore Habit, and Salinity Evolution during Methane Hydrate Dissociation in Sandy Sediments. Energy & Fuels. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01720
Flemings, P.B., Cook, A.E., Collett, T., Boswell, R., 2022, Gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part II, Insights and future challenges. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5): 937–947.
https://doi.org/10.1306/bltnintro030922
Moore, M., Phillips, S.C., Cook, A., Darrah, T. H., 2022, Integrated geochemical approach to determine the source of methane in gas hydrate from Green Canyon Block 955 in the Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 949–980.
https://doi.org/10.1306/05272120087
Santra, S., Flemings, P. B., Heidari, M., You, K., 2022, Occurrence of high-saturation gas hydrate in a fault-compartmentalized anticline and the role of seal, Green Canyon, abyssal northern Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 981-1003.
https://doi.org/10.1306/08182120149
Wei, L., Cook, A., You, K., 2022, Methane migration mechanisms for the Green Canyon Block 955 gas hydrate reservoir, northern Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1005-1023.
https://doi.org/10.1306/06022120134
Phillips, S.C., Flemings, P. B., You, K., Waite, W., 2022, Thermodynamic insights into the production of methane hydrate reservoirs from depressurization of pressure cores. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1025-1049.
https://doi.org/10.1306/08182120216
Daigle, H., Fang, Y., Phillips, S.C., Flemings, P. B., 2022, Pore structure of sediments from Green Canyon 955 determined by mercury intrusion. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1051-1069. https://doi.org/10.1306/02262120123
Fang, Y., Flemings, P. B., Daigle, H., Phillips, S.C., O’Connell, J., 2022, Permeability of methane hydrate-bearing sandy silts in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (Green Canyon Block 955). AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1071-1100.
https://doi.org/10.1306/08102121001
Fang, Y., Flemings, P. B., Germaine, J.T, Daigle, H., Phillips, S.C., O’Connell, J., 2022, Compression behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1101-1126.
https://doi.org/10.1306/01132221002
Oti, E., Cook, A., Phillips, S.C., Holland, M. E., 2022, Using X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) to Estimate Hydrate Saturation in Sediment Cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1127-1142.
https://doi.org/10.1306/05272120051
Yoneda, J., Jin, Y., Muraoka, M., Oshima, M., Suzuki, K., Waite, W., Flemings, P. B., 2022, Comprehensive pressure core analysis for hydrate-bearing sediments from Gulf of Mexico Green Canyon Block 955, including assessments of geomechanical viscous behavior and nuclear magnetic resonance permeability. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (5), 1143-1177.
https://doi.org/10.1306/04272120204
Lei, L., Park, T., Jarvis, K. et al., 2022, Pore-scale observations of natural hydrate-bearing sediments via pressure core sub-coring and micro-CT scanning. Scientific Reports, 12, 3471.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07184-6
Buser-Young, J.Z., Lapham, L.L., Thurber, A.R., Williams, K.H., Colwell, F.S., 2021, Hidden Processes During Seasonal Isolation of a High-Altitude Watershed. Frontiers in Earth Science.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.666819
Crutchley, G. J., Mountjoy, J. J., Hillman, J. I. T., Turco, F., Watson, S., Flemings, P. B., et al., 2021, Upward-doming zones of gas hydrate and free gas at the bases of gas chimneys, New Zealand’s Hikurangi margin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021489
Ewton, E., Klasek, S., Peck, E., Wiest, J., Colwell, F., 2021, Microbial Community Characteristics Largely Unaffected by X-Ray Computed Tomography of Sediment Cores. Frontiers Microbial Community.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.584676
Johnson, J.E., MacLeod, D.R., Phillips, S.C., Purkey Phillips, M., Divins, D.L., 2021, Primary Deposition and Early Diagenetic Effects on the High Saturation Accumulation of Gas Hydrate in a Silt Dominated Reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology., v. 444.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106718
Meazell, K., Flemings, P. B., 2021, The evolution of seafloor venting from hydrate-sealed gas reservoirs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117336
Meazell, K., 2021, Gas hydrate reservoirs of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: characterization and consequences. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
Link to Publication
Solomon, E.A., Phillips, S.C., 2021, Data Report: Pore Water Geochemistry at Green Canyon 955, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C, Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Report: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX).
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.2172/1838142,
Whorley, T.L., 2021. The response of seep and methane hydrate biogeochemical systems to variability in climate, hydrogeology, and trace metal availability, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/47662
You, K., Flemings, P. B., 2021, Methane hydrate formation and evolution during sedimentation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB021235. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021235
Boswell, R., Collett, T. S., Cook, A., Flemings, P. B., 2020, Introduction to Special Issue: Gas Hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part I: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1843-1846.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1306/bltnintro062320
Chen, X., Espinoza, D. N., Luo, J. S., Tisato, N., & Flemings, P.B., 2020, Pore-scale evidence of ion exclusion during methane hydrate growth and evolution of hydrate pore-habit in sandy sediments. Marine and Petroleum Geology. Vol. 117, Article 104340
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104340
Fang, Y., Flemings, P. B., Daigle, H., Phillips, S.C., Meazell, P. K., & You, K. 2020, Petrophysical properties of the Green Canyon Block 955 hydrate reservoir inferred from reconstituted sediments: Implications for hydrate formation and production: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1997–2028.
https://doi.org/10.1306/01062019165.
Flemings, P. B., Phillips, S.C., Boswell, R., Collett, T. S., Cook, A., Dong, T., & Frye, M., et al., 2020, 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: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1847-1876,
https://dx.doi.org/10.1306/05212019052.
Fortin, W .F. J., Goldberg, D. S., Küçük, H. M., 2020, Data Report: Prestack Waveform Inversion at GC 955: Trials and sensitivity of PWI to high-resolution seismic data, In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX), 7 p.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1647733.
Heber, R., Cook, A., Sheets, J., & Sawyer, D., 2020. Data Report: X-Ray Diffraction of Sediments from Green Canyon Block 955, Gulf of Mexico. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX), 27 p.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1648308.
Heber, R., Cook, A., Sheets, J., & Sawyer, D., 2020. Data Report: High-Resolution Microscopy Images of Sediments from Green Canyon Block 955, Gulf of Mexico. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX), 6 p.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1648312.
Johnson, J.E., Divins, D.L., 2020. Data Report: UT-GOM2-1 Lithostratigraphic Core Description Logs at Site GC 955, Holes H002 and H005. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C, Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX)., 30 p.
ttp://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1823034
Johnson, J.E., MacLeod, D.R., Divins, D.L., 2020. Data Report: UT-GOM2-1 Sediment Grain Size Measurements at Site GC 955, Holes H002 and H005. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C, Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX), 87 p.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1823030
MacLeod, D.R., 2020, Characterization of a silty methane-hydrate reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico: Analysis of full sediment grain size distributions. M.S. Thesis, pp. 165, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH, U.S.A.
https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/1387/
Meazell, K., Flemings, P. B., Santra, M., & Johnson, J. E., 2020, Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a deep-water gas hydrate reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1945–1969,
https://doi.org/10.1306/05212019027.
Meyer, D. W., Flemings, P. B., You, K., DiCarlo, D. A., 2020, Gas flow by invasion percolation through the hydrate stability zone, Geophysical Research Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084380
Moore, M. T., Phillips, S.C., Cook, A., Darrah, T. H., 2020, Improved sampling technique to collect natural gas from hydrate-bearing pressure cores: Applied Geochemistry, v. 122.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104773.
Murphy, Z., DiCarlo, D. A., Flemings, P. B., Daigle, H., 2020, Hydrate is a Nonwetting Phase in Porous Media. Geophysical Research Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089289
Phillips, S.C., Flemings, P. B., Holland, M. E., Schultheiss, P. J., Waite, W. F., Jan, J., Petrou, E. G., & Hammon, H., 2020, High concentration methane hydrate in a silt reservoir from the deep-water Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1971–1995.
https://doi.og/10.1306/01062018280.
Portnov, A., Santra, M., Cook, A., Sawyer, D. E., 2020, The Jackalope gas hydrate system in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 111, 261–278.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.036
Portnov, A., Cook, A., Heidari, M., Sawyer, D. E., Santra, M., & Nikolinakou, M., 2020, Salt-driven evolution of a gas hydrate reservoir in Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1903–1919.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1306/10151818125.
Purkey Phillips, M., 2020, Data Report: UT-GOM2-1 Biostratigraphy Report Green Canyon Block 955, Gulf of Mexico. In Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX)., 15 p.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1823039
Santra, M., Flemings, P. B., Scott, E., & Meazell, P. K., 2020, Evolution of gas hydrate-bearing deep-water channel-levee system in abyssal Gulf of Mexico: Levee growth and deformation: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1921–1944.
https://doi.org/10.1306/04251918177.
Thomas, C., Flemings, P.B., You, K., 2020, Technical Note: UT-GOM2-2 Drilling Fluid, Austin, TX, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
https://doi.org/10.2172/1773344
Thomas, C., Phillips, S.C., Flemings, P. B., Santra, M., Hammon, H., Collett, T. S., & Cook, A. et al., 2020, Pressure-coring operations during The University of Texas-Gulf of Mexico 2-1 (UT-GOM2-1) Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition in Green Canyon Block 955, northern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1877–1901.
https://doi.org/10.1306/02262019036.
Cook, A., & Portnov, A., 2019, Gas hydrates in coarse-grained reservoirs interpreted from velocity pull up: Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico. Comment. Geology.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G45609C.1
Darnell, K. N., Flemings, P. B., DiCarlo, D., 2019, Nitrogen‐Driven Chromatographic Separation During Gas Injection Into Hydrate‐Bearing Sediments, Water Resources Research, 55(8), 6673-6691.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023414
Ewton, E., 2019, The effects of X-ray CT scanning on microbial communities in sediment cores. Honors thesis, Oregon State University. Corvallis OR, U.S.A.
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/honors_college_theses/bz60d350s
Phillips, S.C., Flemings, P. B., You, K., Meyer, D., & Dong, T., 2019, Investigation of in situ salinity and methane hydrate dissociation in coarse-grained sediments by slow, stepwise depressurization, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 109, 128–144.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.06.015
Portnov, A., Cook, A., Sawyer, D. E., Yang, C., Hillman, J. I. T., & Waite, W. F., 2019, Clustered BSRs: Evidence for gas hydrate-bearing turbidite complexes in folded regions, example from the Perdido Fold Belt, northern Gulf of Mexico. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 528.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115843
Sawyer, D. E., Mason, R. A., Cook, A. , & Portnov, A., 2019, Submarine Landslides Induce Massive Waves in Subsea Brine Pools. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 128.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36781-7
Wei, L., Cook, A., Daigle, H., Malinverno, A., Nole, M., & You, K., 2019, Factors Controlling Short‐Range Methane Migration of Gas Hydrate Accumulations in Thin Coarse‐Grained Layers. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(8), 3985-4000.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008405
You, K., Flemings, P.B., Malinverno, A., Collett, T.S. Darnell, K., 2019, Mechanisms of Methane Hydrate Formation in Geological System, Reviews of Geophysics.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000638
Chen, X., & Espinoza, D. N., 2018, Ostwald ripening changes the pore habit and spatial variability of clathrate hydrate. Fuel, 214, 614–622.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.11.065
Chen, X., and Espinoza, D. N., 2018, Surface area controls gas hydrate dissociation kinetics in porous media, Fuel, 234, 358-363.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.07.030
Chen, X., Verma, R., Espinoza, D. N., & Prodanović, M., 2018, Pore-Scale Determination of Gas Relative Permeability in Hydrate-Bearing Sediments Using X-Ray Computed Micro-Tomography and Lattice Boltzmann Method. Water Resources Research, 54(1), 600–608.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021851
Cook, A., and Waite, W. F., 2018, Archie’s saturation exponent for natural gas hydrate in coarse-grained reservoir. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 2069– 2089.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB015138
Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, 2018. UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Hole GC 955 H005. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1648318
Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, 2018. UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Hole GC 955 H002. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1648313
Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, 2018. UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Methods. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1647226
Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, 2018. UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Summary. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition, Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1647223.
Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C., Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, 2018, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. DOI: 10.2172/1646019
https://ig.utexas.edu/energy/genesis-of-methane-hydrate-in-coarse-grained-systems/expedition-ut-gom2-1/reports/
Majumdar, U., & Cook, A., 2018, The Volume of Gas Hydrate‐Bound Gas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(11), 4313-4328.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007865
Meyer, D. W., 2018, Dynamics of Gas Flow and Hydrate Formation within the Hydrate Stability Zone, Department of Geological Sciences, doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
http://doi.org/10.15781/T2M03ZG8H
Meyer, D. W., Flemings, P. B., DiCarlo, D., 2018, Effect of Gas Flow Rate on Hydrate Formation Within the Hydrate Stability Zone, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 123, 6263–6276.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015878
Meyer, D. W., Flemings, P. B., DiCarlo, D., You, K., Phillips, S. C., and Kneafsey, T. J., 2018, Experimental investigation of gas flow and hydrate formation within the hydrate stability zone. Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 123(7), 5350–5371.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015748
Phillips, I.M., 2018. Data Report: X-Ray Powder Diffraction. In Flemings, P.B., Phillips, S.C, Collett, T., Cook, A., Boswell, R., and the UT-GOM2-1 Expedition Scientists, Proceedings of the UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition: Austin, TX (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, TX), 14 p.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1648320
Sheik, C.S., Reese, B.K., Twing, K.I., Sylvan, J.B., Grim, S.L., Schrenk, M.O., et al., 2018, Identification and Removal of Contaminant Sequences From Ribosomal Gene Databases: Lessons From the Census of Deep Life. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 840.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00840
You, K., Flemings, P.B., 2018, Methane hydrate formation in thick sand reservoirs: 1. Short-range methane diffusion, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 89(2), 428-442.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.10.011
Flemings, P.B., Boswell, R., Collett, T.S., Cook, A., Divins, D., Frye, M., Guerin, G., Goldberg, D.S., Malinverno, A., Meazell, K., Morrison, J., Pettigrew, T., Philips, S.C., Santra, M., Sawyer, D., Shedd, W., Thomas, C., You, K., 2017, GOM2: Prospecting, Drilling and Sampling Coarse-Grained Hydrate Reservoirs in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Proceeding of ICGH-9. Denver, Colorado: ICGH.
http://www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/gom2/UT-GOM2-1%20Prospectus.pdf.
Hillman, J.I.T., Cook, A., Daigle, H., Nole, M., Malinverno, A., Meazell, K., & Flemings, P.B., 2017, Gas hydrate reservoirs and gas migration mechanisms in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86(Supplement C), 1357-1373.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.07.029
Hillman, J.I.T., Cook, A., Sawyer, D., Küçük, H.M., and Goldberg, D.S., 2017, The character and amplitude of ‘discontinuous’ bottom-simulating reflections in marine seismic data, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 459, 157-169.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.058
Majumdar, U., Cook, A., Shedd, W., and Frye, M., 2016, The connection between natural gas hydrate and bottom‐simulating reflectors, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 7044– 7051.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069443
Cook, A., & Sawyer, D., 2015, The mud-sand crossover on marine seismic data, Geophysics, v. 80, no. 6, A109-A114.
https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2015-0291.1
Darnell, K., Flemings, P.B., 2015, Transient seafloor venting on continental slopes from warming-induced methane hydrate dissociation, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 10,765–10,772.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL067012
You, K., Kneafsey, T.J., Flemings, P.B., Polito, P., and Bryant, S.L., 2015, Salinity-buffered methane hydrate formation and dissociation in gas-rich systems, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(2), 643–661.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011190
Smith, A.J., Flemings, P.B., Liu, X., and Darnell, K., 2014, The evolution of methane vents that pierce the hydrate stability zone in the world’s oceans, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
http://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010686
Presentations
Phillips. S.C., Formolo, M.J., Wang, D.T., Xie, H., Becker, S.P., Eiler, J.M., 2021. Fractionation of methane isotopologues during gas hydrate dissociation: Example from a high-saturation reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geological Society of America Connects 2021, Portland, OR. October 10-13, 2021.
Naim, F., Cook, A.E., Konwar, D., 2021, Estimating P-wave velocity and Bulk Density in Hydrate Systems using Machine Learning. Presentation IMAGE 2021, SEG/AAPG Annual Conference. Denver, CO and Online, Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 2021.
Johnson, J.E., MacLeod, D.R., Divins, D.L., and Phillips, S.C., 2020. Grain Size, TOC, and TS in Gas Hydrate Bearing Turbidite Facies at Green Canyon Site 955, Gulf of Mexico. Oral presentation at AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2020.
Colwell, F., Kiel Reese, B., Mullis, M., Buser-Young, J., Glass, J.B., Waite, W., Jang, J., Dai, S., Phillips, S. 2020, Microbial Communities in Hydrate-Bearing Sediments Following Long-Term Pressure Preservation. Presented as a poster at 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Gas Hydrates, Galveston, TX. Feb 2020.
Wei, L., Cook, A. and You, K., 2020, Methane Migration Mechanisms for the GC955 Gas Hydrate Reservoir, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Abstract OS029-0008 presented to the AGU 2020 Fall Meeting. Virtual. Dec. 2020
You, K., M. Santra, L. Summa, and P.B. Flemings, 2020, Impact of focused free gas flow and microbial methanogenesis kinetics on the formation and evolution of geological gas hydrate system, Abstract presented to the AGU 2020 Fall Meeting. Virtual. Dec. 2020
You, K., et al., 2020, Coupled Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport Processes in Gas Hydrate Systems. Presented at Gordon Research Conference on Gas Hydrate, Galveston, TX. Feb 2020.
Daigle, H., et al., 2019, Assessing the impact of microbial methanogenesis on supplying methane to layered hydrate reservoirs, Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Espinoza D.N., Chen X., Luo J.S., Tisato N., Flemings P.B., 2019, X-Ray Micro-CT Observation of Methane Hydrate Growth and Dissociation in Sandy Sediments. Presented to the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2019, Pasadena, CA, 19 June.
Ewton, E., Klasek, S., Peck, E., Wiest, J. Colwell F., 2019, The effects of X-ray computed tomography scanning on microbial communities in sediment cores. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting.
Fang, Y., et al., 2019, Petrophysical properties of the GC 955 Gulf of Mexico hydrate reservoir inferred from reconstituted sediments: implications for hydrate formation, Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Oti, E., Cook, A., Phillips, S., and Holland, M., 2019, Using X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) to Estimate Hydrate Saturation in Sediment Cores from UT-GOM2-1 H005, Green Canyon 955 (Invited talk, U11C-17). Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Phillips, S.C., 2019, Pressure coring in marine sediments: Insights into gas hydrate systems and future directions. Presented to the GSA Annual Meeting 2019, Phoenix, Arizona, 22-25 September.
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/338173
Wei, L. and Cook, A., 2019, Methane Migration Mechanisms and Hydrate Formation at GC955, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Abstract OS41B-1668 presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cook. A., Waite, W.F., Spangenberg, E., and Heeschen, K.U., 2018, Petrophysics in the lab and the field: how can we understand gas hydrate pore morphology and saturation? Invited talk presented to the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington D.C.
Chen X., Espinoza, D.N., Tisato, N., and Flemings, P.B., 2018, X-Ray Micro-CT Observation of Methane Hydrate Growth in Sandy Sediments. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Dec. 10–14, in Washington D.C.
Dong, T., Lin, J. -F., Flemings, P. B., Gu, J. T., Polito, P. J., O’Connell, J., 2018, Pore-Scale Methane Hydrate Formation under Pressure and Temperature Conditions of Natural Reservoirs. Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington D.C., 10-14 December.
Johnson, J.E., 2018, High Porosity and Permeability Gas Hydrate Reservoirs: A Sedimentary Perspective. Presented to the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX, February 26.
Johnson, J.E., Phillips, S.C., and Divins, D.L., 2018, Tracking AOM through TOC and Elemental S: Implications for Methane Charge in Gulf of Mexico Marine Sediments. Abstract OS13A-08 oral presentation to the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December.
Moore, M., Phillips, S., Cook, A., Sawyer, D., Lary, B., Wulsin, G., Darrah, T., 2018, Noble gas and hydrocarbon geochemical composition of fluids associated with gas hydrate formation in cores from Gulf of Mexico Green Canyon Block GC955. Presented to the GSA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Murphy, Z., Fukuyama, D., Daigle, H., DiCarlo, D., 2018, Three-phase relative permeability of hydrate-bearing sediments. Poster presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 December.
Oti, E., Cook, A., 2018, Non-Destructive X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) of Previous Gas Hydrate Bearing Fractures in Marine Sediment. Presented the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
Oti, E., Cook. A., Phillips, S., Holland, M., Flemings, P., 2018, Using X-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955 Gulf of Mexico. Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.
Portnov, A., Cook, A., Heidari, M., Sawyer, D., Santra, M., Nikolinakou, M., 2018, Salt-driven Evolution of Gas Hydrate Reservoirs in the Deep-sea Gulf of Mexico. Presented to the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
Portnov, A., Cook., A., Majumdar, U., Sawyer, D.E., 2018, Underexplored gas hydrate reservoirs associated with salt diapirisim and turbidite deposition in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Poster presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.
Wei.L, Cook. A., Nole, M., Malinverno, A., Daigle, H., Geogiopoulou, A., Barnes, P., Pecher, I., LeVay, L., Exp 372 Scientists, Exp 375 scientists, 2018, Gas hydrate accumulations in thin sands. Talk and poster presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.
Chen, X., Espinoza, N., Verma, R., and Prodanovic, M., 2017, X-Ray Micro-CT Observations of Hydrate Pore Habit and Lattice Boltzmann Simulations on Permeability Evolution in Hydrate Bearing Sediments (HBS). Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA, December 11–15.
Dong, T., Lin, J.-F., Gu, J.T., Polito, P.J., O’Connell, J., Flemings, P.B., 2017, Spatial and temporal dependencies of structure II to structure I methane hydrate transformation in porous media under moderate pressure and temperature conditions. Presented to the AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 December.
Dong, T., Lin, J.-F., Flemings, P.B., Gu, J.T., Liu, J., Polito, P.J., O’Connell, J., 2017, Pore-scale study on gas hydrate formation and dissociation under relevant reservoir conditions of the Gulf of Mexico. Presented to the 2017 Extreme Physics and Chemistry workshop, Deep Carbon Observatory, Tempe, AZ, 4-5 November.
Flemings, P.B., Boswell, R., Collett, T.S., Cook, A.E., Divins, D. et al., 2017, GOM²: Prospecting, Drilling and Sampling Coarse-Grained Hydrate Reservoirs in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Paper presented to the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, 25-30 June, Denver, CO.
https://netl.doe.gov/sites/default/wp-content/uploads/netl-file/Flemings-et-al-ICGH-2017%5B1%5D.pdf
Fortin, W., Goldberg, D.S., Küçük, H.M, 2017. Prestack Waveform Inversion and Well Log Examination at GC955 and WR313 in the Gulf of Mexico for Estimation of Methane Hydrate Concentrations, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting, Session OS44A-04: New Orleans, LA, Dec 12-16, 2017.
Kinash, N. Cook, A., Sawyer, D. and Heber, R., 2017, Recovery and Lithologic Analysis of Sediment from Hole UT-GOM2-1-H002, Green Canyon 955, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Abstract OS53B-1207 presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Lin, J. F., Dong, T., Flemings, P.B., Polito, P. J., 2017, Characterization of methane hydrate reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico. Presented to the Third Deep Carbon Observatory International Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland, 23-25 March.
Moore, M., Darrah, T., Cook, A., Sawyer, D., Phillips, S., Whyte, C., Lary, B., and UT-GOM2-01 Scientists, 2017, The genetic source and timing of hydrocarbon formation in gas hydrate reservoirs in Green Canyon, Block GC955. Abstract OS44A-03 presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Oryan, B., Malinverno, A., Goldberg, D., Fortin, W., 2017. Do Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles control methane hydrate formation? An example from Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting, Session OS53B-1205: Dec 12-16, 2017, New Orleans, LA
Oti, E., Cook, A., Buchwalter, E., and Crandall, D., 2017, Non-Destructive X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) of Gas Hydrate Bearing Fractures in Marine Sediment. Abstract OS44A-05 presented to the AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Phillips, S.C., You, K., Flemings, P.B., Meyer, D.W., and Dong, T., 2017, Dissociation of laboratory-synthesized methane hydrate in coarse-grained sediments by slow depressurization. Poster presented to the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Denver, CO, June 25–30.
Cook, A.E., Hillman, J., Sawyer, D., Treiber, K., Yang, C., Frye, M., Shedd, W., Palmes, S., 2016, Prospecting for Natural Gas Hydrate in the Orca & Choctaw Basins in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cook, A.E., and Waite, B., 2016, Archie’s saturation exponent for natural gas hydrate in coarse-grained reservoir. Presented at Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
Dong, T., Lin, J. F., Flemings, P. B., Polito, P. J., 2016, Pore-scale study on methane hydrate dissociation in brine using micro-Raman spectroscopy. Presented to the 2016 Extreme Physics and Chemistry Workshop, Deep Carbon Observatory, Palo Alto, Calif., 10–11 Dec.
Fortin, W., Goldberg, D.S., Holbrook, W.S., Küçük, H.M., 2016. Velocity analysis of gas hydrate systems using prestack waveform inversion, Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrate Systems, Galveston, TX, Feb 28 – March 4, 2016.
Fortin, W., Goldberg, D.S., Küçük, H. M., 2016. Methane Hydrate Concentrations at GC955 and WR313 Drilling Sites in the Gulf of Mexico Determined from Seismic Prestack Waveform Inversion, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting, Session 13837: Experiments, Modeling and Field Studies on Gas Hydrate Formation, San Francisco, CA Dec 12-16, 2016.
Hillman, J., Cook, A. & Sawyer, D., 2016, Mapping and characterizing bottom-simulating reflectors in 2D and 3D seismic data to investigate connections to lithology and frequency dependence. Presented at Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
Treiber, K, Sawyer, D., & Cook, A., 2016, Geophysical interpretation of gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, northern Gulf of Mexico, USA. Poster presented to the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
Yang, C., Cook, A., & Sawyer, D., 2016, Geophysical interpretation of the gas hydrate reservoir system at the Perdido Site, northern Gulf of Mexico. Presented to the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX, United States.
Cook, A.E., Hillman, J., & Sawyer, D., 2015, Gas migration in the Terrebonne Basin gas hydrate system. Abstract OS23D-05 presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cook, A.E., & Sawyer, D., 2015, Methane migration in the Terrebonne Basin gas hydrate system, Gulf of Mexico. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.