AAPG Bulletin

Papers
(The median citation count of AAPG Bulletin is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia49
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids39
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media36
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding27
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction26
Effects of hydrothermal fluids on carbonate reservoirs: Case from the lower Permian Sichuan Basin (Qixia Formation), China26
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger24
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville23
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China22
Metazoan-algal benthic ecosystems enhance automicritic slope boundstone: The Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou carbonate platform, Xiliang margin, China22
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California22
Integrated and improved direct hydrocarbon indicators: A step forward in petroleum risk discrimination21
Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia20
Genetic mechanisms of sparry calcite in lacustrine shale and its significance for fluid–rock interactions and reservoir formation19
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China19
Complex filling histories for most conventional reservoirs revealed by quantitative diamondoid analysis18
Reservoir characterization and comparison of seismicity-monitoring methods at West Seminole for CO2 utilization and storage18
Geochemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons in source rocks of the Cretaceous Orange Basin17
Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation16
Fluid evolution in deeply buried and karstified carbonate reservoirs of the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China16
Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas15
Coexistence of coalbed methane, shale gas, and tight sandstone gas in coal measure strata: A case study from the southern Qinshui Basin, China15
Time-stratigraphic correlation of the Spiro sandstone, Arkoma Basin, southeastern Oklahoma15
Hypogenic karstic cavities formed by tectonic-driven fluid mixing in the Ordovician carbonates from the Tarim Basin, northwestern China15
Rare earth elements in latest Famennian Woodford Shale phosphate nodules, Oklahoma, United States: Land-driven phosphorus overloading and evolving organic carbon preservation, southern Laurentia14
Porosity evolution of sandstone reservoirs in the Paleogene Shahejie Formation of the Zhanhua depression, Bohai Bay Basin14
Application of a deep-water stratigraphic framework to the production of the Wolfcampian units in the Permian Basin14
System-based comparison of environmental, reliability, and cost trade-offs across three generation mix scenarios14
M. King Hubbert and the rise and fall of peak oil theory14
Detailed reservoir characterization of Mesozoic siliciclastic strata for sedimentary geothermal exploration, Colorado Plateau to Basin and Range transition zone, Utah13
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China13
An integrated correlation from platform to basin: Implications for understanding the Ediacaran succession of Oman13
Laboratory study on microbial fractionation mechanisms of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in coalbed biomethane13
Tectonic relief evolution and large-scale karstification of an Ordovician supergiant reservoir, North Tarim uplift, northwestern China13
Unconventional reservoir characterization by seismic inversion and machine learning of the Bakken Formation13
Salt deposition in ultradeep brine settings by dynamic inflow and evaporation13
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, China12
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century12
In situ stress state in the petroliferous Barmer Basin, northwestern India: A new geomechanical approach12
Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States12
Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues12
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin11
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China11
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks11
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian–Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China11
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China11
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation10
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment10
Hydrocarbon basins offshore China under multiplate interactions9
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion9
Petroleum system evaluation of the world’s deepest (>5000 m) volcanic reservoirs, Sichuan Basin, China9
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China9
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation9
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism9
Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene9
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the AAPG Bulletin : Reply8
Automatic facies classification using convolutional neural network for three-dimensional outcrop data: Application to the outcrop of the mass-transport deposit8
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea8
Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting8
Interpretation, characterization, and slip hazard assessment of faults in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States8
Three-dimensional seismic classification of salt structure morphologies across the Southern North Sea8
Origin of Eocene lacustrine dolomite and evolution of multiple diagenetic fluids in the Huanghekou sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China8
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 China8
Insights on fracture and karst cavern origin and diagenesis from core observations at Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan8
Characterization of oils and potential source rocks in the Marietta Basin, Oklahoma and Texas7
Water depth–terrigenous input dynamic equilibrium controls the Eocene lacustrine shale laminae records in Jiyang depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China7
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning—A Middle East basin case study7
Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan7
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China7
Characterization of spatial relationships between fractures from different sets using K-function analysis7
Controls of shale gas enrichment and high yield in the lower Cambrian Niutitang shale of the Yichang area, southern China7
Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan6
Sedimentary evolution and shale oil potential of Shahejie Formation in Zhanhua sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China6
The impact of textural variation on the topology of fracture networks in carbonates6
Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow6
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 1: Diapirism, deformation, dating, and exploration in honor of Bruno Vendeville and all the unsung heroes6
An empirical method to correct nuclear magnetic resonance porosity of tight sandstone using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance data6
Asphaltenes in petroleum generation and correlation: Example from the hypersaline Qianjiang shale in Jianghan Basin, China6
The presalt Santos Basin, a super basin of the twenty-first century6
Statewide assessment of CO2 storage resources for the lower Paleozoic strata, Oklahoma: Timbered Hills and Arbuckle Groups6
Secondary migration of heavy oil in low dip basins6
Molecular structure characterization of kerogen in contact metamorphic shales: Insights into the effect of graphitization on organic matter pores6
Pore pressure thresholds associated with seismogenic fault slip in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States5
Carbon dioxide storage efficiency involving the complex reservoir units associated with Irati and Rio Bonito Formations, Paraná Basin, Brazil5
The main geological factors controlling the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas content5
Effects of paleoenvironment on continental shale oil enrichment and producibility in the Biyang depression5
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China5
Structural traps and seals for expanding CO2 storage in the northern Horda platform, North Sea5
Potential for CO2 sequestration in saline formations in the western offshore Netherlands: A preliminary study—Expanding carbon capture and storage beyond depleted fields5
Tectonic-sedimentary responses to major geological events, source rock formation mechanisms, and resource potential at depths greater than 10,000 m in the cratonic basins of China5
Modeling the evolution of pore pressure from deep wastewater injection in the Midland Basin, Texas5
Hydrocarbon-charge history of hydrothermally altered reservoirs: The Tailai gas field, eastern Sichuan Basin, China5
Paleoenvironmental constraints on Paleozoic shale deposition in the midcontinent United States5
Hydrocarbon trapping in hydrodynamic salinity gradients: Williston Basin case studies5
Proposal to reinstate the Wolfcamp Formation as a formal lithostratigraphic unit for the subsurface Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas5
Characteristics and diagenetic model of hyperpycnite reservoirs in the gentle slope of a lacustrine rift basin: A case study from the third member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation, Bonan sag, Bohai Ba5
Characterizing CO2 storage architecture using paleoenvironmental evidence from petrographic and diagenetic modeling5
A novel method for digitizing sedimentological graphic logs and exporting into reservoir modeling software5
Effects of light hydrocarbons and extractable organic matter on the methane sorption capacity of shales5
Sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada5
Vertical lithology variability and geomechanical analysis of intervals of petroleum interest in the Pilmatué Member, Agrio Formation, Argentina5
Study on microscale mechanical properties of minerals and organic matter in shale based on atomic force microscopy5
Deep hydrothermal dolomitization in a superimposed basin that experienced multiple tectonic-thermal events5
Carrier bed plays of the Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation in the Sichuan Basin, China: Exploration practices and significance5
Volumetric effects of decompression following natural hydraulic fracturing in shale during expulsion of hydrocarbons: The case of the Baltic Basin (northern Poland)5
Seismic-constrained reservoir modeling and simulation for CO2 sequestration potential assessment of the Arbuckle Group: Wellington field, Kansas5
High-precision seismic imaging for complex deep structures in the hydrocarbon exploration using a coherent-stacking-based least-squares migration4
Jurassic deep-water reservoirs at a transfer-transform offset: Modeling the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Shelburne subbasin, southeastern Canadian margin4
Fluvial sedimentology and chronostratigraphy improve reservoir characterization and resolve complex fluid distribution, Krasnoleninskoye area, Russian Federation4
Drilling an exploration prospect downdip: Quantifying the trade-offs between chance of success and associated resource potential4
Petroleum-charge history of Paleozoic carbonates in the Tahe oil field, Tarim Basin, northwestern China: Insights from oil geochemistry, fluid inclusion, and U-Pb dating4
A genetic algorithm–driven support vector machine to discriminate the kerogen type using conventional geophysical logging data4
A petroleum system analysis of anomalous Lower Pennsylvanian oil field, Pottsville Group, Appalachian Basin4
Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy and gross depositional environments, Browse Basin, Australia: Implications for the extent of petroleum systems and plays4
Control of grain size of brittle minerals on fracture development in shale under compression: Insights from numerical experiments4
Evidence for water of condensation: A third source of water in shale gas wells4
Buried rift basin under the Kalpin fold-thrust belt in the northwestern Tarim Basin: Implications for deep oil and gas exploration4
Origin of bedding-parallel calcite “beef” layers in the Upper Jurassic Haynesville shale, northwestern Louisiana4
Salt welding during canopy advance and shortening in the Green Canyon area, northern Gulf of Mexico4
Tectonic setting and petroleum systems of the Seno Mexicano (southern Texas and northeastern Mexico): An initial synthesis4
Challenges with managing unconventional water production and disposal in the Permian Basin4
Subsurface mapping of central Israel: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration4
Analogue modeling of domino-style extensional basement fault systems with prekinematic salt4
Organic geochemical characterization of deltaic Paleogene rock units in Coos Bay, Oregon: Kerogen type and richness in response to depositional environments4
Numerical modeling of microfracturing and primary hydrocarbon expulsion in the Jurassic Lower Tuwaiq Mountain Shale: A conceptual framework4
Estimation of original total organic carbon content and hydrogen index using major and trace element concentrations in the overmature Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian Wufeng–Longmaxi marine shales, sou4
Estimation of detachment depths and displacements from the area–depth markers of contractional growth structures: Testing the “inverse line” concept3
Source rock deformation and hydrocarbon accumulation controlled by a metamorphic core complex in the northern South China Sea rifted margin3
Machine learning applications to seismic structural interpretation: Philosophy, progress, pitfalls, and potential3
Western offshore Myanmar: New insights on the Ayeyarwady River as the fairway for Pliocene-Pleistocene sandstone3
Predicting the occurrence and development of regionally extensive sublacustrine fans in the Oligocene Bohai Bay Basin: From sequence stratigraphy to source-to-sink systems3
Paleogene lacustrine tight shale oil system, Huanghua subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin: Sweet spot delineation, production breakthrough, and implications3
Hierarchical machine learning workflow for conditional and multiscale deep-water reservoir modeling3
Assessing rock physics models for total organic carbon estimation in lower Goru Formation: Case study on a shale gas reservoir in Pakistan3
GeoRulesLobePy: A Markov Chain-based approach for rule-based deepwater lobe training images in subsurface modeling3
Porosity and permeability of Mauddud reservoirs in Raudhatain and Sabiriyah oil fields, Kuwait: Interpretation of controlling processes3
Opening-mode fracturing and cementation during hydrocarbon generation in shale: An example from the Barnett Shale, Delaware Basin, West Texas3
Prestack inversion and amplitude variation with offset attributes as hydrocarbon indicators in carbonate rocks: A case study from the Illinois Basin3
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea3
Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas3
Introduction to the special issue on geothermal energy3
Hydraulic fracture networks bypassing thick sealing sequences as fluid conduits in deep overpressured strata3
Time-dependence of subsidence above a producing gas reservoir with salt top seal: A finite element model study of the role of salt flow3
The impact of organic pores on estimation of overpressure generated by gas generation in organic-rich shale: Example from Devonian Duvernay Shale, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin3
Concentric hydrocarbon accumulations in deep rift basins: A case study of Jizhong and Huanghua depressions, Bohai Bay Basin, China3
Morphology and depositional facies of the Pennsylvanian Claytonville (Canyon lime) field, Fisher County, Texas3
INDEX OF VOLUME 107 (2023)3
Knowns, questions, and implications of induced seismicity in the Permian Basin3
Direct evidence for abnormal overpressure generated by crude oil cracking in the Sinian Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, southwestern China2
Deep convolutional neural networks for generating grain-size logs from core photographs2
Growth and evolution of salt canopies on a salt-detached slope: Insights from physical models2
Geochemical and petrophysical characterization of potential gas shale reservoirs in the Lishu depression, southern Songliao Basin, northeastern China2
A geological assessment of the carbon storage potential of structural closures in the East Midlands shelf, United Kingdom Southern North Sea2
Diagenesis in the middle–upper Cambrian Xixiangchi Formation from mineralogy and fluid inclusion analysis: Insight to fluid history and basin evolution2
Risk assessment of mantle-derived CO2 in the East China Sea basins, China2
The critical evaluation of carbon dioxide subsurface storage sites: Geological challenges in the depleted fields of Liverpool Bay2
Fracture characterization from core and image log integration at Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan2
Hydrodynamic effects on low-dip stratigraphic traps2
Evolution of pore space in tight sandstone: The roles of dissolution, calcite cementation, and clay growth2
Is peak oil here, again?2
Exploring for unswept gas: Integrating reservoir models, production data, and fault seal analysis in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia2
Quantitative sequence stratigraphy applied to the Barremian–lower Aptian Urgonian carbonates deposited in Provence (southeastern France)2
Natural fractures of the Tuscaloosa marine shale2
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the AAPG Bulletin ?2
Fracture stratigraphy, stress, and strain evolution in shale succession of the lower Paleozoic Baltic Basin (Poland)2
Why does petroleum in carbonate reservoirs tend to occur at higher temperatures than in sandstones?2
Fluvial reservoir architecture, directional heterogeneity and continuity, recognizing incised valley fills, and the case for nodal avulsion on a distributive fluvial system: Kern River field, Californ2
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the AAPG Bulletin ?: Discussion2
The Songliao Super Basin in northeastern China2
Hydrocarbon source rock characteristics and shale gas potential of Permian marine shales in the Lower Yangtze region of South China2
Quantifying sources of gas hydrate through diagenetic modeling2
High-resolution petrophysical, geochemical, and geomechanical profiling of a 230-m continuous core from the Montney Formation, Canada2
A hybrid deep learning network for tight and shale reservoir characterization using pressure and rate transient data2
Mechanism and continuity of gypsum smears in the East Qiulitage anticline, Kuqa foreland basin, China2
Gulf Coast demise: The reversal from Late Holocene growth and stability to rapid inundation and erosion caused by accelerated sea-level rise and diminished sediment supply2
Heterogeneity of the transgressive systems tract of the Eagle Ford Formation, Val Verde County, Texas2
Carbonate platform or volcanic mound? Seismic characterization of a synrift buildup along the outer high of the Lüderitz Basin, Namibia2
Recognition of a hydrothermally linked oil accumulation process in the Tahe oil field, northwestern China, with organic geochemistry, Re-Os, and U-Pb geochronology2
Sedimentary evolution of a Late Triassic salt giant and a synchronous carbonate unit between the Peruvian Andean Cordillera and the Brazilian Amazonian foreland2
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The impact of CO2-enhanced oil recovery on oil production and lifespan of old oil pools: A Canadian example2
Comparison of silica diagenesis between the lower Cambrian and lower Silurian shale reservoirs in the middle–upper Yangtze platform (southern China)2
The rebirth of the Leduc-Woodbend Nisku oil pool in Alberta, Canada2
Improving P-wave velocity prediction of pre-salt carbonates (Santos Basin, Brazil) using thin-section–derived pore geometry, petrophysics, and mineralogy2
Origin and source of natural gas in Paleozoic strata of the southwestern Ordos Basin, China2
A primer on West Siberian Basin stratigraphy: Chronostratigraphic cross-references for Cretaceous- and Jurassic-age strata, Russian Federation2
Differential (re-)activation and hydrocarbon enrichment of segments of intracratonic strike-slip faults in the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China2
Giant submarine fans in a greenhouse world—The Paleogene Wilcox Group of the northern Gulf of Mexico2
An integrated chemostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic analysis of extended (>1000 ft) lower Permian Wolfcamp cores, Reagan County, southern Midland Basin2
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