OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Petroleum Geoscience is 4. 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
New insights into the late Palaeozoic–early Mesozoic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia	51
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	13
Gravity imaging of sub-Zechstein geological structures in the UK sector of the North Sea using the gravity layer stripping method	13
Calibration of naturally fractured reservoir models using integrated well-test analysis – an illustration with field data from the Barents Sea	11
Investigating the analytical relationship between pore geometry and other pore space properties in carbonate rocks	11
A new approach to investigate the effect of burial depth and clay content on fault permeabilities applied at the Njord Field	10
Seismic stratigraphy of the southern Eratosthenes High, eastern Mediterranean Sea: growth, demise and deformation of three superposed carbonate platforms (Mesozoic–Cenozoic)	9
Timing of hydrocarbon charge in the Axial Zone of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia	9
High-resolution synthetic seismic modelling: elucidating facies heterogeneity in carbonate ramp systems	9
Cretaceous petroleum system elements in the Komombo Basin, Egypt	9
Digitally enabled geoscience workflows: unlocking the power of our data – an introduction to the thematic collection	8
Impact of modelling decisions and rock typing schemes on oil in place estimates in a giant carbonate reservoir in the Middle East	7
Predicting fluid flow in reservoirs: analysis of fracture clustering in outcrop analogues	7
Petroleum generation and migration through the Faroe–Shetland Basin – the role of igneous intrusions	7
Investigating the role of differential biotic production on carbonate geometries through stratigraphic forward modelling and sensitivity analysis: the Llucmajor example	7
Prediction of reservoir properties using inverse rock physics modelling in the Kanywataba Exploration Area, Albertine Graben	7
A quantitative study of the microstructure of Indian Gondwana shale: a fractal and algebraic topology approach	6
Natural fractures at depth in shale reservoirs: new insights from the southern Sichuan Basin marine shales	5
The influence of sedimentary facies, mineralogy, and diagenesis on reservoir properties of the coal-bearing Upper Carboniferous of NW Germany	5
Simultaneous well spacing and completion optimization using an automated machine learning approach. A case study of the Marcellus Shale reservoir, northeastern United States	5
Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs	5
Look-ahead-while-drilling resistivity tools and their role in drilling sedimentary basins containing complex volcanic geology	5
Seismic stratigraphy of the Cretaceous post-rift sedimentary interval in the Punta del Este Basin (offshore Uruguay) and its implications for deep-water reservoirs	5
Stress state in parts of NE India: borehole collapse modelling with sensitivity analysis	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
Fracturability of shale based on rock brittleness and natural fracture tensile reactivation	4
Synthetic seismic-stratigraphic interpretation from a sedimentological forward model in a pre-salt field in the Santos Basin	4
Challenges for seismic velocity modelling of rafts and impacts for pre-salt depth estimations	4
Shear-wave velocity estimation based on rock physics modelling of a limestone gas reservoir in the Pannonian Basin	4
Editorial comments from the incoming Chief Editor, January 2022	4
Utilization of chemostratigraphy to the subregional scale correlation of Permo–Carboniferous sediments, eastern Saudi Arabia	4