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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	55
Consideration of the limitations of thermal maturity with respect to vitrinite reflectance, Tmax, and other proxies	35
State of stress in areas of active unconventional oil and gas development in North America	30
Grain assemblages and diagenesis in organic-rich mudrocks, Upper Pennsylvanian Cline shale (Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas	26
Geological-petrophysical insights in the deep Cambrian dolostone reservoirs in Tarim Basin, China	26
Application of seismic curvature attributes in the delineation of coal texture and deformation in Zhengzhuang field, southern Qinshui Basin	25
On the dolomite reservoirs formed by dissolution: Differential eogenetic versus hydrothermal in the lower Permian Sichuan Basin, southwestern China	25
A study of the gas–water characteristics and their implications for the coalbed methane accumulation modes in the Southern Junggar Basin, China	25
Constraining coalbed methane reservoir petrophysical and mechanical properties through a new coal structure index in the southern Qinshui Basin, northern China: Implications for hydraulic fracturing	24
Two distinct strike-slip fault networks in the Shunbei area and its surroundings, Tarim Basin: Hydrocarbon accumulation, distribution, and controlling factors	22
Passive versus active salt diapirism	22
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	21
Identifying the key source rocks in heterogeneous saline lacustrine shales: Paleogene shales in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	19
Slip sliding away: Enigma of large sandy blocks within a gas-bearing mass transport deposit, offshore northwestern Greenland	17
Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins	17
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a deep-water gas hydrate reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico	17
Depositional environment and hydrothermal controls on organic matter enrichment in the lower Cambrian Niutitang shale, southern China	16
Petrophysical properties of the Green Canyon Block 955 hydrate reservoir inferred from reconstituted sediments: Implications for hydrate formation and production	16
Super basins—New paradigm for oil and gas supply	16
Underpressure in the northern Barents shelf: Causes and implications for hydrocarbon exploration	15
Natural fractures in tight gas volcanic reservoirs and their influences on production in the Xujiaweizi depression, Songliao Basin, China	14
Gravity-flow deposits caused by different initiation processes in a deep-lake system	14
High concentration methane hydrate in a silt reservoir from the deep-water Gulf of Mexico	14
The effects of pore structure on wettability and methane adsorption capability of Longmaxi Formation shale from the southern Sichuan Basin in China	14
Multiple thrust detachments and their implications for hydrocarbon accumulation in the northeastern Sichuan Basin, southwestern China	13

Characterization of reservoirs, fluids, and productions from the Ordovician carbonate condensate field in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	13
The Neuquén Super Basin	13
Excess permeability in the Brazil pre-Salt: Nonmatrix types, concepts, diagnostic indicators, and reservoir implications	13
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia	12
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	12
Organic geochemistry and petrology of Devonian shale in eastern Ohio: Implications for petroleum systems assessment	12
Evolution of gas hydrate–bearing deep-water channel-levee system in abyssal Gulf of Mexico: Levee growth and deformation	12
Origins of overpressure in the central Xihu depression of the East China Sea shelf basin	11
Geochemistry of high-maturity crude oil and gas from deep reservoirs and their geological significance: A case study on Shuntuoguole low uplift, Tarim Basin, western China	11
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	11
The Bakken–Three Forks super giant play, Williston Basin	11
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	10
A novel integrated approach for chemofacies characterization of organic-rich mudrocks	10
Timing and origin of multiple petroleum charges in the Solveig oil field, Norwegian North Sea: A rhenium-osmium isotopic study	10
A new method for assessing tight oil, with application to the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusaer depression, Junggar Basin, China	10
Evaluating the depositional environment, lithofacies variation, and diagenetic processes of the Wolfcamp B and lower Spraberry intervals in the Midland Basin: Implications for reservoir quality and di	10
Astronomical forcing of meter-scale organic-rich mudstone–limestone cyclicity in the Eocene Dongying sag, China: Implications for shale reservoir exploration	10
West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, United States: Tectonics, structural development, sedimentation, petroleum systems, and hydrocarbon reserves	9
Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures	9
Diagenetic alteration, pore-throat network, and reservoir quality of tight gas sandstone reservoirs: A case study of the upper Paleozoic sequence in the northern Tianhuan depression in the Ordos Basin	9
Diagenesis and reservoir quality of lacustrine deep-water gravity-flow sandstones in the Eocene Shahejie Formation in the Dongying sag, Jiyang depression, eastern China	8
Structure, burial, and gas accumulation mechanisms of lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation shale gas reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin (China) and its periphery	8
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea	8
Super basin thinking: Methods to explore and revitalize the world’s greatest petroleum basins	8
How much systems-tract scale, three-dimensional stratigraphic variability is present in sequence stratigraphy?: An answer from the middle Miocene Pearl River Mouth Basin	8
Prediction of the gas-generating characteristics of the Qiongzhusi and Longmaxi Formations, Yangtze Platform, southern China, using analogues	8
Controlling factors of high-quality hydrocarbon source rocks developed in lacustrine shallow-water zone of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China	8
Experimental determination of porosity and methane sorption capacity of organic-rich shales as a function of effective stress: Implications for gas storage capacity	8
The Sureste Super Basin of southern Mexico	8
Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls	8
Ultimate expellable potentials of source rocks from selected super basins: What does “world class” look like?	7
Geologic characterization of the type cored section for the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group in southern Texas: A combination fractured and unconventional reservoir	7
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments	7
Thermal history reconstruction from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data of the Bongor Basin, the Republic of Chad	7
Variations in vertical stress in the Permian Basin region	7
The Morro Vermelho hypogenic karst system (Brazil): Stratigraphy, fractures, and flow in a carbonate strike-slip fault zone with implications for carbonate reservoirs	7
Source potential and reservoir characterization of the Cambay Shale, Cambay Basin, India: Implications for tight gas and tight oil resource development	7
Salt-driven evolution of a gas hydrate reservoir in Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico	7
Low pressure buildup with large disposal volumes of oil field water: A flow model of the Ellenburger Group, Fort Worth Basin, northcentral Texas	7
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play	7
Geological parameters controlling the bedding-parallel vein distribution in Vaca Muerta Formation core data, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	7
The northern Gulf of Mexico offshore super basin: Reservoirs, source rocks, seals, traps, and successes	7
Seal failure assessment of a major gas field via integration of seal properties and leakage phenomena	7
Quantitative carbonate sequence stratigraphy: Insights from stratigraphic forward models	7
Occurrence of high-saturation gas hydrate in a fault-compartmentalized anticline and the importance of seal, Green Canyon, abyssal northern Gulf of Mexico	6
Use of global analogues to improve decision quality in exploration, development, and production	6
Depositional and postdepositional processes of an oil-shale analog at the microstructure scale: The Lower Cretaceous Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, northern Patagonia	6
Indication of origin and distribution of coalbed gas from stable isotopes of gas and coproduced water in Fukang area of Junggar Basin, China	6
An approach to reduce exploration risk using spectral decomposition, prestack inversion, and seismic facies classification	6
Resource potential of the Jurassic gas system, northern margin of the Qaidam Basin, northwestern China	6

Tampico-Misantla: A premier super basin in waiting	6
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China	6
Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, and hydrocarbon habitats across the Arabian plate	6
Permeability of methane hydrate-bearing sandy silts in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (Green Canyon Block 955)	6
Quantitative diamondoid analysis indicates oil cosourcing from a deep petroleum system onshore Niger Delta Basin	6
Characterizing maturity of reservoir pyrobitumen with strong anisotropy: A calibration between reflectance and laser Raman spectral parameters	6
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	6
Development and growth of basement-involved structural wedges in the northwestern Qaidam Basin, China	6
Improving total organic carbon estimation for unconventional shale reservoirs using Shapley value regression and deep machine learning methods	6
Sedimentology, diagenesis, and reservoir characterization of the Permian White Rim Sandstone, southern Utah: Implications for carbon capture and sequestration potential	6
Use of exploration methods to repurpose and extend the life of a super basin as a carbon storage hub for the energy transition	6
Depositional environment and source rock quality of the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups, southern East Texas (Brazos) Basin: An integrated geochemical, sequence stratigraphic, and petrographic approach	6
Integrated geochemical approach to determine the source of methane in gas hydrate from Green Canyon Block 955 in the Gulf of Mexico	6
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China	6
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea	5
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes	5
Diagenesis of the San Andres Formation in the Seminole unit in Central Basin platform, western Texas	5
Multiscale pore characterization of coal measure reservoirs and gas storage and transport behavior in Yanchuannan gas field of China	5
Quantitatively predicting the thermal maturity of oil trapped in fluid inclusions based on fluorescence and molecular geochemical data of oil inclusions in the Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Ch	5
Petroleum migration and accumulation: Modeling and applications	5
Paleoenvironment reconstruction of the upper Paleozoic in the Linxing area, northeastern Ordos Basin, China	5
Geological controls on petroleum plays and future opportunities in the North Sea Rift Super Basin	5
Provenance of Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous synrift strata in the Terra Nova oil field, Jeanne d’Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: A new detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf reference frame for the Atlantic C	5
Reservoir geology of the Berea Sandstone (uppermost Devonian), eastern Kentucky	5
Effects of extractable organic matter from mature lacustrine shale on the pore structure and their implications	5
Impact of natural fractures on production from an unconventional shale: The Delaware Basin Wolfcamp shale	5
Applying deep learning for identifying bioturbation from core photographs	5
Origin and migration of oil and natural gas in the central part of the Ukrainian outer Carpathians: Geochemical and geological approach	5
Bitumen geochemistry and producibility in the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation shale oil play	5
Hydrocarbon-induced bleaching and copper mineralization in the Wingate Sandstone, Paradox Valley, Colorado: Two episodes of fluid migration during the evolution of the Paradox Basin	5
Multiphase activation of the boundary fault system of the eastern Dampier subbasin, Northwest Shelf of Australia	5
High-resolution hyperspectral-based continuous mineralogical and total organic carbon analysis of the Eagle Ford Group and associated formations in south Texas	5
Carbonate cements in Eocene turbidite sandstones, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Origin, distribution, and effect on reservoir properties	5
Depositional conditions and accumulation models of tight oils in the middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in Junggar Basin, northwestern China: New insights from geochemical analysis	5