OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part A: Experimental Observations	18
Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements	17
Effects of Imbibition and Compaction during Well Shut-In on Ultimate Shale Oil Recovery: A Numerical Study	17
Risk Management and Optimization in Real-Time Noncondensable Gas Co-injection under Economic Uncertainty	17
Lithofacies, Deposition, and Clinoforms Characterization Using Detailed Core Data, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logs, and Modular Formation Dynamics Tests for Mishrif Formation Intervals in West Qurna/1	15
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	14
Application of Data Mining to Small Data Sets: Identification of Key Production Drivers in Heterogeneous Unconventional Resources	13
Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation	12
Fluid Identification Derived from Formation Chlorine Measurements and Reservoir Characterization of Tight Carbonate in Sichuan Basin, China	12
Conditioning Model Ensembles to Various Observed Data (Field and Regional Level) by Applying Machine-Learning-Augmented Workflows to a Mature Field with 70 Years of Production History	11
Improved Well-Control Progressive Optimization with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates and Manifold Mapping	11
RTA-Assisted Numerical History-Matching Workflow	10
Experimental Study on the Impact of Clay Distribution and Mineralogy on NMR T2 and Internal Gradient: Insights From Well-Controlled Physical Samples	10
Application of Machine Learning to Interpret Steady-State Drainage Relative Permeability Experiments	10
Thermal Magnetic Properties Variation of Rock During In-Situ Combustion Process	10
Active Fault Detection by an Automatic Breakout Geometry Characterization Algorithm from Ultrasonic Borehole Imager	10
Methods to Enhance Success of Field Application of In-Situ Combustion for Heavy Oil Recovery	9
A Deep Learning Framework Using Graph Convolutional Networks for Adaptive Correction of Interwell Connectivity and Gated Recurrent Unit for Performance Prediction	9
Comparative Evaluation of a Functions for the Soave-Redlich-Kwong Equation of State and the Peng-Robinson Equation of State to Predict Saturation Pressures for Gas(es)-Heavy Oil/Bitumen-Water S	9
Modeling Two-Phase Flow in Tight Core Plugs with an Application for Relative Permeability Measurement	9
New Insights into Surfactant Adsorption Estimation in Carbonates under Harsh Conditions Using Surface Complexation Modeling	9
Progress Toward Pilot-Scale Simulation of In-Situ Combustion Incorporating Geomechanics	9
Decoding the Impact of Injection-Induced Fractures on the Sweep Efficiency of a Mature Polymer Flood through Pressure Falloff Analysis	8
CO2 Flow Regimes Comparison between North Sea and US Classes of Reservoirs	8
Managing Risk in Well Placement Optimization within an Expected Utility Framework	8

A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part B: Interpretations	8
Athabasca Toe-to-Heel Air Injection Pilot: Evaluation of the Spontaneous Ignition Based on Apparent Atomic Hydrogen-Carbon Ratio Variation	8
Stochastic Estimation of Barrels of Oil Equivalent Conversion Factor for Natural Gas Volumes from Offshore Carbonate Fields in Ultradeep Waters	8
A Novel 2.5D Deep Network Inversion of Gravity Anomalies to Estimate Basement Topography	8
Optimization of an Integrated Reservoir-Production System Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion and Sobol Sensitivity Analysis	8
Building an EPA Class VI Permit Application	8
History-Matching and Forecasting Production Rate and Bottomhole Pressure Data Using an Enhanced Physics-Based Data-Driven Simulator	7
Experimental Measurements and Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption on Carbon Surface	7
Measurement of Effective Hydrogen-Methane Gas Diffusion Coefficients in Reservoir Rocks	7
The Role of Diffusion on Reservoir Performance in Underground Hydrogen Storage	7
Geomechanical and Fracture Network Interpretation of a Devonian Outcrop	7
An Investigation on the Process of Reimbibition of Oil and Its Impact on Oil Recovery in the Yates Field	7
Static Adsorption Evaluation for Anionic-Nonionic Surfactant Mixture on Sandstone in the Presence of Crude Oil at High Reservoir Temperature Condition	7
Effects of Overpressure on Mechanical Properties of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs through Novel Use of a Sonic Overpressure Indicator	7
Improving Prediction of Fracture Distribution Using Microseismic Data and Acoustic Logging Measurements	7
Reservoir Modeling, History Matching, and Characterization with a Reservoir Graph Network Model	7
Modeling Water Injectivity Tests under Multiple Rate Schedule: An Approximate Solution	7
3D Printing for Experiments in Petrophysics, Rock Physics, and Rock Mechanics: A Review	7
New Insights into Hybrid Low-Salinity Polymer Flooding through a Coupled Geochemical-Based Modeling Approach	7
Estimating Reservoir Permeability and Fracture Surface Area Using the Flowback DFIT (DFIT-FBA)	6
A Simple Analytical Model for Oil Production from Partially Fractured Reservoirs to Estimate Size of Finite Fracture Networks	6
Lithofacies and Diagenetic Controls on Tight Silty and Sandy Upper Triassic Reservoirs of the Heshui Oil Field (Ordos Basin, North China)	6
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fine Migration During Low-Salinity Water Flooding: Effect of Brine Composition on Interparticle Forces	5
Robust Value Quantification of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods Using Ensemble-Based Optimization	5
Performance Evaluation of Nanocellulose-Engineered Robust Preformed Particle Gel upon Extrusion Through 1 to 1.5 mm Bead-Packed Porous Media	5
Catanionic Surfactants for Improving Oil Production in Carbonate Reservoirs	5
Hydrocarbon Field (Re-)Development as Markov Decision Process	5
Laboratory Studies for Design of a Foam Pilot for Reducing Gas Channeling from Gas Cap in Production Well in Messoyakhskoye Field	5
Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Rocks from the Yingxi Area, Southwest Qaidam Basin, China	5
The Effect of Relative Permeability Hysteresis on the Design of an Optimal Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Process	5
Rheology and Injectivity Studies on Scleroglucan Biopolymer for Carbonates under Harsh Conditions	5
Electrical, Diffusional, Hydraulic, and Geometrical Tortuosity Anisotropy Quantification Using 3D Computed Tomography Scan Image Data	5
Comprehensive Fluid Compositional Analysis Program to Support the Interpretation of Chichimene Field In-Situ Combustion Pilot	5
Determination of Concentration-Dependent Effective Diffusivity of Each Gas Component of a Binary Mixture in Porous Media Saturated with Heavy Oil under Reservoir Conditions	5
Using the Flowing Material Balance Model to Determine Which Wells Out of a Group of Wells belong to the Same Common Pool	4
Azimuthal Investigation of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir	4
Fault Identification for the Purposes of Evaluating the Risk of Induced Seismicity: A Novel Application of the Flowback DFIT	4
Application of Multilateral Wells for Production and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Case Studies from Canada	4
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	4
Estimation of Formation Porosity in Carbonates Using Mechanical Specific Energy Calculated from Drilling Parameters	4
Data-Driven Reduced-Order Models for Volve Field Using Reservoir Simulation and Physics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques	4
Message Passing Interface (MPI) Parallelization of Iteratively Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanics Codes for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media. Part 2: Parallel Perfo	3
Analysis of Vertical Permeability and Its Influence on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage in a Carbonate Reservoir	3
Azimuthal Prestack Seismic Anisotropic Inversion on a Deep and Tight Carbonate Reservoir From the North Potwar Basin of Pakistan	3
New Insights on Characteristics of the Near-Wellbore Fractured Zone from Simulated High-Resolution Distributed Strain Sensing Data	3
The Application of Computed Tomography Scanning and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Rock Typing of Polymineral Clastic Reservoirs	3
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	3
Data Assimilation Using Principal Component Analysis and Artificial Neural Network	3
Genesis, Distribution, and Characterization of a Paleokarst Subsurface River System in the Tahe Area, Tarim Basin, Western China	3
Oil Recovery Dynamics of Natural Gas Huff ‘n’ Puff in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs Considering the Effects of Nanopore Confinement and Its Proportion: A Mechanistic Study	3

Evaluation of ATBS Polymers for Mangala Polymer Flood	3
Data Assimilation of Production and Multiple 4D Seismic Acquisitions in a Deepwater Field Using Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation	3
Production Forecasting with the Interwell Interference by Integrating Graph Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network	3
New Insights into the Understanding of In-Situ Combustion: Important Considerations When Modeling the Process	3
A New Workflow for Improved Resistivity-Based Water Saturation Assessment in Organic-Rich Mudrocks: Application to Haynesville, Eagle Ford, and Woodford Formations	3
Evaluation of Effects of Waterflooding-Induced Bilayer Fractures on Tight Reservoir Using Pressure-Transient Analysis Method	3
Novel Proppant Logging Technique for Infill Drilling of Unconventional Shale Wells	3
Polysulphate: A New Enhanced Oil Recovery Additive to Maximize the Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs at High Temperature	3
Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	3
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	3
Integration of 3D Volumetric Computed Tomography Scan Image Data with Conventional Well Logs for Detection of Petrophysical Rock Classes	3
Impact of Financial Assumptions on Economic Viability of Incremental Projects	3