AAPG Bulletin

Papers
(The median citation count of AAPG Bulletin is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Carrier beds as reservoirs67
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II55
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction42
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia30
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins27
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media25
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids24
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding24
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger21
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone20
Lithological, petrophysical, and seal properties of mass-transport complexes, northern Gulf of Mexico17
Rock classification in the Eagle Ford Formation through integration of petrophysical, geological, geochemical, and geomechanical characterization16
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville16
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China16
Chemostatistic allocation of shale oil production using acidic heterocompounds16
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California16
Metazoan-algal benthic ecosystems enhance automicritic slope boundstone: The Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou carbonate platform, Xiliang margin, China15
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China14
Reservoir characterization and comparison of seismicity-monitoring methods at West Seminole for CO2 utilization and storage14
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments14
Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas14
Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia14
Geochemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons in source rocks of the Cretaceous Orange Basin14
Fluid evolution in deeply buried and karstified carbonate reservoirs of the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China13
Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation13
Hypogenic karstic cavities formed by tectonic-driven fluid mixing in the Ordovician carbonates from the Tarim Basin, northwestern China13
Using high-resolution microresistivity image logs to reconstruct paleoenvironments and stratal architectures: An example from the McMurray Formation, Leismer area, northeastern Alberta, Canada13
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes12
Thermodynamic insights into the production of methane hydrate reservoirs from depressurization of pressure cores12
Application of a deep-water stratigraphic framework to the production of the Wolfcampian units in the Permian Basin12
The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin as a component of the Mancos total petroleum system12
Laboratory study on microbial fractionation mechanisms of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in coalbed biomethane11
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play11
Salt deposition in ultradeep brine settings by dynamic inflow and evaporation11
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China11
A geochemical analysis of produced water(s) from the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Delaware Basin, western Texas11
M. King Hubbert and the rise and fall of peak oil theory11
A fracture-related deep Archean crystalline basement reservoir facilitated by thrusting and mineralogy: Newly discovered Bozhong 19-6 large gas field, offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China10
An integrated correlation from platform to basin: Implications for understanding the Ediacaran succession of Oman10
In situ stress state in the petroliferous Barmer Basin, northwestern India: A new geomechanical approach10
Tectonic relief evolution and large-scale karstification of an Ordovician supergiant reservoir, North Tarim uplift, northwestern China10
Unconventional reservoir characterization by seismic inversion and machine learning of the Bakken Formation10
The West Siberian Super Basin: The largest and most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the world9
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment9
Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues9
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks9
Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States9
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China9
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China8
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century8
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin8
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China8
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin8
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin8
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation8
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation7
Petroleum system evaluation of the world’s deepest (>5000 m) volcanic reservoirs, Sichuan Basin, China7
Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene7
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China7
Using x-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico7
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development7
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China7
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion7
The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?7
Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins7
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China7
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China6
Interpretation, characterization, and slip hazard assessment of faults in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States6
Automatic facies classification using convolutional neural network for three-dimensional outcrop data: Application to the outcrop of the mass-transport deposit6
Diagenesis of the San Andres Formation in the Seminole unit in Central Basin platform, western Texas6
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea6
Structural geometry and evolution of the Carter-Knox structure, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma6
Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting6
Quantifying concretion distribution in shales of the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco system, Neuquén Basin, Argentina6
Three-dimensional seismic classification of salt structure morphologies across the Southern North Sea6
Characterization of oils and potential source rocks in the Marietta Basin, Oklahoma and Texas6
Integration of diagenesis, porosity evolution, and oil emplacement in lacustrine tight sandstone reservoirs: A review with illustrative cases from the major oil-bearing basins in China6
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism6
Origin of Eocene lacustrine dolomite and evolution of multiple diagenetic fluids in the Huanghekou sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China6
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>: Reply6
Characterization of spatial relationships between fractures from different sets using K-function analysis6
Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan6
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: A confluence of science, technology, and ideas5
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 pe5
Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan5
Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow5
Lithofacies control on the formation of deformation bands: An example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group (Induan–Anisian, Lower Triassic) in western England5
Introduction to Special Issue: Super basins: Selected case studies of the world’s greatest petroleum basins5
An empirical method to correct nuclear magnetic resonance porosity of tight sandstone using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance data5
Pore pressure thresholds associated with seismogenic fault slip in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States5
Quantifying multiple source rock contributions to petroleum fluids: Bias in using compound ratios and neglecting the gas fraction5
Methane migration mechanisms for the Green Canyon Block 955 gas hydrate reservoir, northern Gulf of Mexico5
The presalt Santos Basin, a super basin of the twenty-first century5
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning - A Middle East basin case study5
Ultimate expellable potentials of source rocks from selected super basins: What does “world class” look like?5
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia5
Molecular structure characterization of kerogen in contact metamorphic shales: Insights into the effect of graphitization on organic matter pores5
Modeling the evolution of pore pressure from deep wastewater injection in the Midland Basin, Texas5
Hydrocarbon-charge history of hydrothermally altered reservoirs: The Tailai gas field, eastern Sichuan Basin, China5
Secondary migration of heavy oil in low dip basins5
An empirical approach to estimating hydrocarbon column heights for improved predrill volume prediction in hydrocarbon exploration5
Mapping natural oil seeps in the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia) using WorldView-3 satellite data5
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 1: Diapirism, deformation, dating, and exploration in honor of Bruno Vendeville and all the unsung heroes5
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China5
Water depth–terrigenous input dynamic equilibrium controls the Eocene lacustrine shale laminae records in Jiyang depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China5
Hydrocarbon trapping in hydrodynamic salinity gradients: Williston Basin case studies5
Characterizing CO2 storage architecture using paleoenvironmental evidence from petrographic and diagenetic modeling4
Effects of paleoenvironment on continental shale oil enrichment and producibility in the Biyang depression4
A novel method for digitizing sedimentological graphic logs and exporting into reservoir modeling software4
Seismic reflection analysis of the deeply buried Neoproterozoic rift basin beneath Sichuan Basin, southern China4
Effects of light hydrocarbons and extractable organic matter on the methane sorption capacity of shales4
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China4
Sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada4
Localized strata-bound domino faulting offshore Espírito Santo Basin (southeastern Brazil): The case for sudden release of fluid in salt-withdrawal basins4
Gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part II, Insights and future challenges4
Paleoenvironmental constraints on Paleozoic shale deposition in the midcontinent United States4
Effects of extractable organic matter from mature lacustrine shale on the pore structure and their implications4
Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls4
Study on microscale mechanical properties of minerals and organic matter in shale based on atomic force microscopy4
The main geological factors controlling the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas content4
Characteristics and diagenetic model of hyperpycnite reservoirs in the gentle slope of a lacustrine rift basin: A case study from the third member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation, Bonan sag, Bohai Ba4
Volumetric effects of decompression following natural hydraulic fracturing in shale during expulsion of hydrocarbons: The case of the Baltic Basin (northern Poland)4
Organic geochemical characterization of deltaic Paleogene rock units in Coos Bay, Oregon: Kerogen type and richness in response to depositional environments4
Structural traps and seals for expanding CO2 storage in the northern Horda platform, North Sea4
Carbon dioxide storage efficiency involving the complex reservoir units associated with Irati and Rio Bonito Formations, Paraná Basin, Brazil4
Impact of natural fractures on production from an unconventional shale: The Delaware Basin Wolfcamp shale4
Potential for CO2 sequestration in saline formations in the western offshore Netherlands: A preliminary study - Expanding carbon capture and storage beyond depleted fields4
Permeability of methane hydrate-bearing sandy silts in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (Green Canyon Block 955)3
Drilling an exploration prospect downdip: Quantifying the trade-offs between chance of success and associated resource potential3
Introduction to Special Issue: Super basins: Selected case studies of the world’s greatest petroleum basins3
Control of grain size of brittle minerals on fracture development in shale under compression: Insights from numerical experiments3
Hydraulic fracture networks bypassing thick sealing sequences as fluid conduits in deep overpressured strata3
Historical and emerging super basins of Southeast Asia3
Numerical modeling of microfracturing and primary hydrocarbon expulsion in the Jurassic Lower Tuwaiq Mountain Shale: A conceptual framework3
Estimation of original total organic carbon content and hydrogen index using major and trace element concentrations in the overmature Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian Wufeng–Longmaxi marine shales, sou3
Pore structure of sediments from Green Canyon 955 determined by mercury intrusion3
Evidence for water of condensation: A third source of water in shale gas wells3
Challenges with managing unconventional water production and disposal in the Permian Basin3
State of stress in areas of active unconventional oil and gas development in North America3
Buried rift basin under the Kalpin fold-thrust belt in the northwestern Tarim Basin: Implications for deep oil and gas exploration3
Estimation of detachment depths and displacements from the area–depth markers of contractional growth structures: Testing the “inverse line” concept3
Knowns, questions, and implications of induced seismicity in the Permian Basin3
Hierarchical machine learning workflow for conditional and multiscale deep-water reservoir modeling3
Analogue modeling of domino-style extensional basement fault systems with prekinematic salt3
Origin of bedding-parallel calcite “beef” layers in the Upper Jurassic Haynesville shale, northwestern Louisiana3
Jurassic deep-water reservoirs at a transfer-transform offset: Modeling the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Shelburne subbasin, southeastern Canadian margin3
Petroleum-charge history of Paleozoic carbonates in the Tahe oil field, Tarim Basin, northwestern China: Insights from oil geochemistry, fluid inclusion, and U-Pb dating3
A genetic algorithm–driven support vector machine to discriminate the kerogen type using conventional geophysical logging data3
Salt welding during canopy advance and shortening in the Green Canyon area, northern Gulf of Mexico3
High-precision seismic imaging for complex deep structures in the hydrocarbon exploration using a coherent-stacking-based least-squares migration3
Comparison of gas, Klinkenberg, and liquid permeability of sandstone: Flow regime and pore size3
Identification of magnetic enhancement at hydrocarbon-fluid contacts2
Natural fractures of the Tuscaloosa marine shale2
High-resolution petrophysical, geochemical, and geomechanical profiling of a 230-m continuous core from the Montney Formation, Canada2
Heterogeneity of the transgressive systems tract of the Eagle Ford Formation, Val Verde County, Texas2
Exploring for unswept gas: Integrating reservoir models, production data, and fault seal analysis in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia2
The impact of organic pores on estimation of overpressure generated by gas generation in organic-rich shale: Example from Devonian Duvernay Shale, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin2
Geological parameters controlling the bedding-parallel vein distribution in Vaca Muerta Formation core data, Neuquén Basin, Argentina2
Machine learning applications to seismic structural interpretation: Philosophy, progress, pitfalls, and potential2
Recognition of a hydrothermally linked oil accumulation process in the Tahe oil field, northwestern China, with organic geochemistry, Re-Os, and U-Pb geochronology2
Identifying the key source rocks in heterogeneous saline lacustrine shales: Paleogene shales in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China2
Log evaluation, borehole image interpretation, and core calibration of deep-water reservoir rocks: A case study in the Gulf of Mexico2
Paleogene lacustrine tight shale oil system, Huanghua subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin: Sweet spot delineation, production breakthrough, and implications2
Indication of origin and distribution of coalbed gas from stable isotopes of gas and coproduced water in Fukang area of Junggar Basin, China2
Miocene seismic stratigraphy and geomorphology of Bibiyana gas field, Surma Basin, Bangladesh2
Opening-mode fracturing and cementation during hydrocarbon generation in shale: An example from the Barnett Shale, Delaware Basin, West Texas2
Three-dimensional seismic interpretation of a meteorite impact feature, Red Wing Creek field, Williston Basin, western North Dakota2
Structure, burial, and gas accumulation mechanisms of lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation shale gas reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin (China) and its periphery2
A primer on West Siberian Basin stratigraphy: Chronostratigraphic cross-references for Cretaceous- and Jurassic-age strata, Russian Federation2
The effects of initial wedge taper on area-balancing restoration of a fold-thrust belt2
The Anadarko “Super” Basin: 10 key characteristics to understand its productivity2
Influence of structure on Mississippian paleotopography and distribution of Middle Pennsylvanian sandstone reservoirs on the Cherokee platform, northern Oklahoma2
Reservoir characterization of fairways in a tight light oil play of the Upper Cretaceous Cardium Formation, west Pembina, Alberta, Canada2
Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas2
Bitumen geochemistry and producibility in the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation shale oil play2
Depositional conditions and accumulation models of tight oils in the middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in Junggar Basin, northwestern China: New insights from geochemical analysis2
Deep convolutional neural networks for generating grain-size logs from core photographs2
Carbonate cements in Eocene turbidite sandstones, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Origin, distribution, and effect on reservoir properties2
Lithofacies identification in cores using deep learning segmentation and the role of geoscientists: Turbidite deposits (Gulf of Mexico and North Sea)2
Concentric hydrocarbon accumulations in deep rift basins: A case study of Jizhong and Huanghua depressions, Bohai Bay Basin, China2
A geological assessment of the carbon storage potential of structural closures in the East Midlands shelf, United Kingdom Southern North Sea2
Sulfate-reducing bacteria streamers and iron sulfides abruptly occlude porosity and increase hydraulic resistance in proppant-filled shale fractures2
Characteristics and origin of oil and gas in the Nanpu sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China: Insights from oil-source correlation and source rock effects2
Mechanism and continuity of gypsum smears in the East Qiulitage anticline, Kuqa foreland basin, China2
Prestack inversion and amplitude variation with offset attributes as hydrocarbon indicators in carbonate rocks: A case study from the Illinois Basin2
Relay ramps and rhombochasms in the northern Appalachian Basin: Extensional and strike-slip tectonics in the Marcellus Formation and Utica Group2
INDEX OF VOLUME 107 (2023)2
Long cores through the Wilcox Group, Gulf of Mexico, show process variability across different time scales2
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea2
An integrated chemostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic analysis of extended (>1000 ft) lower Permian Wolfcamp cores, Reagan County, southern Midland Basin2
Fracture stratigraphy, stress, and strain evolution in shale succession of the lower Paleozoic Baltic Basin (Poland)2
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