OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Petroleum Geoscience is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
New insights into the late Palaeozoic–early Mesozoic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia	22
The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK	20
Gravity imaging of sub-Zechstein geological structures in the UK sector of the North Sea using the gravity layer stripping method	17
Investigating the analytical relationship between pore geometry and other pore space properties in carbonate rocks	13
A new approach to investigate the effect of burial depth and clay content on fault permeabilities applied at the Njord Field	12
Timing of hydrocarbon charge in the Axial Zone of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia	11
Cretaceous petroleum system elements in the Komombo Basin, Egypt	10
TT transform attributes enhance seismic interpretation: a case of thin turbidites reservoirs in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	9
Digitally enabled geoscience workflows: unlocking the power of our data – an introduction to the thematic collection	9
Seismic stratigraphy of the southern Eratosthenes High, eastern Mediterranean Sea: growth, demise and deformation of three superposed carbonate platforms (Mesozoic–Cenozoic)	8
Use of iron-bearing scavenging reservoirs to unlock stranded sour hydrocarbons with amber hydrogen by-product	7
High-resolution synthetic seismic modelling: elucidating facies heterogeneity in carbonate ramp systems	7
Prediction of reservoir properties using inverse rock physics modelling in the Kanywataba Exploration Area, Albertine Graben	7
Simultaneous well spacing and completion optimization using an automated machine learning approach. A case study of the Marcellus Shale reservoir, northeastern United States	6
Petroleum generation and migration through the Faroe–Shetland Basin – the role of igneous intrusions	6
Seismic stratigraphy of the Cretaceous post-rift sedimentary interval in the Punta del Este Basin (offshore Uruguay) and its implications for deep-water reservoirs	6
Multi-scale geochemical, mineralogical and petrographical dataset for the shale oil-bearing reservoir potential: an example from the Lower Jurassic Datta Formation in the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan	5
Look-ahead-while-drilling resistivity tools and their role in drilling sedimentary basins containing complex volcanic geology	5
The influence of sedimentary facies, mineralogy, and diagenesis on reservoir properties of the coal-bearing Upper Carboniferous of NW Germany	5
A quantitative study of the microstructure of Indian Gondwana shale: a fractal and algebraic topology approach	5
Predicting fluid flow in reservoirs: analysis of fracture clustering in outcrop analogues	5
New insights into the structure, geology and hydrocarbon prospectivity along the central-northern Corona Ridge, Faroe–Shetland Basin	5
Characterizing along- and across-fault fluid-flow properties for assessing flow rates and overburden fluid migration along faults: a case study from the North Sea	5
Assessing thermal maturation and source rock potential of the Eocene (Ypresian) Nammal Formation, Potwar Basin, Pakistan	5
Intelligent Porosity Prediction for Sandstone Reservoirs Using Machine Learning Techniques	4

Fracturability of shale based on rock brittleness and natural fracture tensile reactivation	4
Natural fractures at depth in shale reservoirs: new insights from the southern Sichuan Basin marine shales	4
Organic matter enrichment patterns and sedimentary environments of shale oil: a case study of second member of Funing Formation in Gaoyou Sag, Subei Basin	4
Synthetic seismic-stratigraphic interpretation from a sedimentological forward model in a pre-salt field in the Santos Basin	4
Stress state in parts of NE India: borehole collapse modelling with sensitivity analysis	4
Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs	4
Utilization of chemostratigraphy to the subregional scale correlation of Permo–Carboniferous sediments, eastern Saudi Arabia	4
Stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Asmari Formation in selected locations in the Persian Gulf	3
Petroleum source-rock characterization and the depositional environment of Kimmeridgian–Tithonian sequences, Jaisalmer Basin, western Rajasthan, India	3
New insights into the stratigraphic evolution of SW Britain: implications for Triassic salt and hydrocarbon prospectivity	3
The impacts of kerogen thermal maturity and wettability on water adsorption isotherms	3
Challenges for seismic velocity modelling of rafts and impacts for pre-salt depth estimations	3
The Sahabi ‘B’ Reef complex in the Sirt Basin, Libya: insights into the geometry and depositional architecture of a reservoir	3
Pore structure heterogeneity of Chang 7 shale in the Ordos Basin: insights from NMR and multifractal theory	3
Shear-wave velocity estimation based on rock physics modelling of a limestone gas reservoir in the Pannonian Basin	3
The Upper Cretaceous petroleum system of the East Beni Suef Basin, Egypt: an integrated geological and 2D basin modelling approach	3
The impact of igneous intrusions on sedimentary host rocks: insights from field outcrop and subsurface data	3
Impacts of solid rock components on resistivity-based reserves evaluation in organic-rich mudrocks	2
Seismic and petrophysical characterization of the Sequoia Pliocene channel reservoirs: insights into hydrocarbon potential in the West Delta Deep Marine, Egypt	2
Jasmine: the challenges of delivering infill wells in a variably depleted HPHT field	2
Impact of palaeokarsts on the pinnacle reef reservoirs in the Sirt Basin, Libya	2
Structural characterization and across-fault seal assessment of the Aurora CO ₂ storage site, northern North Sea	2
Combined geophysical and tectonostratigraphic models to characterize Jurassic synrift petroleum systems in the Shushan Basin, northern Egypt	2
Comparative study of CNN-based and conventional fault interpretation methods: a study of the deep-water Orange Basin, South Africa	2
Comparison of shale depth functions in contrasting offshore basins and sealing behaviour for CH ₄ and CO ₂ containment systems	2
Litho- and biostratigraphy and hydrocarbon source-rock potential of the Jurassic–Paleogene strata in the Kala Chitta Range, northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan	2
Source-rock and petrophysical evaluation of the Late Cretaceous Haymana Formation, Haymana Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey	2
Hydrocarbon generation and retention potential of Chang 7 organic-rich shale in the Ordos Basin, China	2
The Paso Anomaly: shallow gas contained within Lower Pleistocene glaciogenic deposits in the Central North Sea	2
Secondary migration of petroleum as a self-adjusting colloidal flow: I. Conceptual model	2
Mechanistic research of a novel composite nano-oil-displacing agent to enhance low-permeability heavy oil reservoir recovery: taking the Ha-34 fault block as an example	1
Multi-scale datasets integration for thinly bedded reservoir characterization: an example from the Abu Roash reservoir, East Beni Suef Basin, Egypt	1
Optimizing downdip interface prediction by using seismic features to train a neural network	1
Identification of two new geochemically distinct oil families in the Termit Basin, Niger: implications for organic matter input in Late Cretaceous Trans-Saharan epicontinental basins	1
Probability forecast verification in petroleum exploration: insights from the Norwegian Continental Shelf	1
Interference well-test model for vertical fractured wells based on non-linear flow	1
Influence of grain size and shape on dielectric permittivity and its implications for water-saturation assessment	1
The role of creep in geopressure development	1
The influence of salt tectonics on the distribution of the Triassic Skagerrak Formation in the Ula Field, Norwegian North Sea	1
A quantification method for shale reservoir heterogeneity using the empirical mode decomposition technique and the analytical hierarchy process	1
The control of fault-caprock configurations on hydrocarbon accumulation in the Pinghu Slope Belt of the Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin (ECSSB)	1
Drilling data-calibrated shale compaction models for pore pressure evaluation from geophysical well logs in the North Alpine Foreland Basin, SE Germany	1
Secondary migration of petroleum as a self-adjusting colloidal flow: II. Numerical tests and implications	1
New insights into the depositional system of mixed carbonate–siliciclastic reservoirs of the Asmari Formation, Zagros Basin: integrated sedimentological and ichnological analysis for depositional mode	1
Optimization of hydrocarbon production from sand injectite systems: some rules of thumb	1
Integrated geological and geophysical workflow for structural modelling: a case study from the contractional foothills zone of the Colombian Eastern Cordillera	1
Distribution of intraclastic deposits in the Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin pre-salt: implications for the reworking processes	1
Review of the petroleum systems of the Iranian Zagros and Persian Gulf regions	1
Characterizing fractured reservoirs by integrating outcrop analogue studies with flow simulations	1
Syn- and post-depositional influences on reservoir quality of the Aptian Dariyan Formation, eastern Persian Gulf	1

Varying free-gas zone (FGZ) and bottom-simulating reflection (BSR) response across a deep graben off Trujillo, central Peru