OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of AAPG Bulletin is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Carrier beds as reservoirs	67
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II	55
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction	42
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia	30
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	27
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media	25
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids	24
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding	24
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger	21
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone	20
Lithological, petrophysical, and seal properties of mass-transport complexes, northern Gulf of Mexico	17
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville	16
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China	16
Chemostatistic allocation of shale oil production using acidic heterocompounds	16
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California	16
Rock classification in the Eagle Ford Formation through integration of petrophysical, geological, geochemical, and geomechanical characterization	16
Metazoan-algal benthic ecosystems enhance automicritic slope boundstone: The Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou carbonate platform, Xiliang margin, China	15
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments	14
Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas	14
Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia	14
Geochemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons in source rocks of the Cretaceous Orange Basin	14
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China	14
Reservoir characterization and comparison of seismicity-monitoring methods at West Seminole for CO2 utilization and storage	14
Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation	13
Hypogenic karstic cavities formed by tectonic-driven fluid mixing in the Ordovician carbonates from the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	13

Using high-resolution microresistivity image logs to reconstruct paleoenvironments and stratal architectures: An example from the McMurray Formation, Leismer area, northeastern Alberta, Canada	13
Fluid evolution in deeply buried and karstified carbonate reservoirs of the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China	13
Application of a deep-water stratigraphic framework to the production of the Wolfcampian units in the Permian Basin	12
The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin as a component of the Mancos total petroleum system	12
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes	12
Thermodynamic insights into the production of methane hydrate reservoirs from depressurization of pressure cores	12
Laboratory study on microbial fractionation mechanisms of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in coalbed biomethane	11
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play	11
Salt deposition in ultradeep brine settings by dynamic inflow and evaporation	11
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China	11
A geochemical analysis of produced water(s) from the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Delaware Basin, western Texas	11
M. King Hubbert and the rise and fall of peak oil theory	11
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, China	10
An integrated correlation from platform to basin: Implications for understanding the Ediacaran succession of Oman	10
In situ stress state in the petroliferous Barmer Basin, northwestern India: A new geomechanical approach	10
Tectonic relief evolution and large-scale karstification of an Ordovician supergiant reservoir, North Tarim uplift, northwestern China	10
Unconventional reservoir characterization by seismic inversion and machine learning of the Bakken Formation	10
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment	9
Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues	9
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks	9
Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States	9
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China	9
The West Siberian Super Basin: The largest and most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the world	9
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin	8
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China	8
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin	8
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	8
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation	8
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	8
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century	8
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	7
Using x-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico	7
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	7
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	7
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion	7
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 Basins	7
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China	7
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation	7
Petroleum system evaluation of the world’s deepest (>5000 m) volcanic reservoirs, Sichuan Basin, China	7
Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene	7
Interpretation, characterization, and slip hazard assessment of faults in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States	6
Automatic facies classification using convolutional neural network for three-dimensional outcrop data: Application to the outcrop of the mass-transport deposit	6
Diagenesis of the San Andres Formation in the Seminole unit in Central Basin platform, western Texas	6
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea	6
Structural geometry and evolution of the Carter-Knox structure, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma	6
Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting	6
Quantifying concretion distribution in shales of the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco system, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	6
Three-dimensional seismic classification of salt structure morphologies across the Southern North Sea	6
Characterization of oils and potential source rocks in the Marietta Basin, Oklahoma and Texas	6

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 China	6
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism	6
Origin of Eocene lacustrine dolomite and evolution of multiple diagenetic fluids in the Huanghekou sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	6
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>: Reply	6
Characterization of spatial relationships between fractures from different sets using K-function analysis	6
Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan	6
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	6
Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan	5
Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow	5
Lithofacies control on the formation of deformation bands: An example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group (Induan–Anisian, Lower Triassic) in western England	5
Quantifying multiple source rock contributions to petroleum fluids: Bias in using compound ratios and neglecting the gas fraction	5
Introduction to Special Issue: Super basins: Selected case studies of the world’s greatest petroleum basins	5
Methane migration mechanisms for the Green Canyon Block 955 gas hydrate reservoir, northern Gulf of Mexico	5
An empirical method to correct nuclear magnetic resonance porosity of tight sandstone using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance data	5
Pore pressure thresholds associated with seismogenic fault slip in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States	5
The presalt Santos Basin, a super basin of the twenty-first century	5
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning - A Middle East basin case study	5
Ultimate expellable potentials of source rocks from selected super basins: What does “world class” look like?	5
Hydrocarbon-charge history of hydrothermally altered reservoirs: The Tailai gas field, eastern Sichuan Basin, China	5
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia	5
Secondary migration of heavy oil in low dip basins	5
Molecular structure characterization of kerogen in contact metamorphic shales: Insights into the effect of graphitization on organic matter pores	5
Modeling the evolution of pore pressure from deep wastewater injection in the Midland Basin, Texas	5
An empirical approach to estimating hydrocarbon column heights for improved predrill volume prediction in hydrocarbon exploration	5
Mapping natural oil seeps in the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia) using WorldView-3 satellite data	5
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 1: Diapirism, deformation, dating, and exploration in honor of Bruno Vendeville and all the unsung heroes	5
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China	5
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: A confluence of science, technology, and ideas	5
Water depth–terrigenous input dynamic equilibrium controls the Eocene lacustrine shale laminae records in Jiyang depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China	5
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 pe	5
Hydrocarbon trapping in hydrodynamic salinity gradients: Williston Basin case studies	5