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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	61
Consideration of the limitations of thermal maturity with respect to vitrinite reflectance, Tmax, and other proxies	42
State of stress in areas of active unconventional oil and gas development in North America	35
Two distinct strike-slip fault networks in the Shunbei area and its surroundings, Tarim Basin: Hydrocarbon accumulation, distribution, and controlling factors	32
A study of the gas–water characteristics and their implications for the coalbed methane accumulation modes in the Southern Junggar Basin, China	28
Geological-petrophysical insights in the deep Cambrian dolostone reservoirs in Tarim Basin, China	28
Passive versus active salt diapirism	25
Depositional environment and hydrothermal controls on organic matter enrichment in the lower Cambrian Niutitang shale, southern China	21
Identifying the key source rocks in heterogeneous saline lacustrine shales: Paleogene shales in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	20
Excess permeability in the Brazil pre-Salt: Nonmatrix types, concepts, diagnostic indicators, and reservoir implications	19
Super basins—New paradigm for oil and gas supply	18
Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins	18
Multiple thrust detachments and their implications for hydrocarbon accumulation in the northeastern Sichuan Basin, southwestern China	15
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia	15
Organic geochemistry and petrology of Devonian shale in eastern Ohio: Implications for petroleum systems assessment	15
Underpressure in the northern Barents shelf: Causes and implications for hydrocarbon exploration	15
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	14
The Neuquén Super Basin	13
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	13
Variations in vertical stress in the Permian Basin region	13
West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, United States: Tectonics, structural development, sedimentation, petroleum systems, and hydrocarbon reserves	13
The Bakken–Three Forks super giant play, Williston Basin	12
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China	12
Origins of overpressure in the central Xihu depression of the East China Sea shelf basin	12
Timing and origin of multiple petroleum charges in the Solveig oil field, Norwegian North Sea: A rhenium-osmium isotopic study	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
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	10
A novel integrated approach for chemofacies characterization of organic-rich mudrocks	10
Controlling factors of high-quality hydrocarbon source rocks developed in lacustrine shallow-water zone of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China	10
Improving total organic carbon estimation for unconventional shale reservoirs using Shapley value regression and deep machine learning methods	10
Permeability of methane hydrate-bearing sandy silts in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (Green Canyon Block 955)	10
Astronomical forcing of meter-scale organic-rich mudstone–limestone cyclicity in the Eocene Dongying sag, China: Implications for shale reservoir exploration	10
Prediction of the gas-generating characteristics of the Qiongzhusi and Longmaxi Formations, Yangtze Platform, southern China, using analogues	10
Occurrence of high-saturation gas hydrate in a fault-compartmentalized anticline and the importance of seal, Green Canyon, abyssal northern Gulf of Mexico	9
Geological controls on petroleum plays and future opportunities in the North Sea Rift Super Basin	9
Structure, burial, and gas accumulation mechanisms of lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation shale gas reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin (China) and its periphery	9
Super basin thinking: Methods to explore and revitalize the world’s greatest petroleum basins	9
Indication of origin and distribution of coalbed gas from stable isotopes of gas and coproduced water in Fukang area of Junggar Basin, China	9
The main geological factors controlling the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas content	9
Low pressure buildup with large disposal volumes of oil field water: A flow model of the Ellenburger Group, Fort Worth Basin, northcentral Texas	9
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments	9
Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures	9
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	8
Linkage and formation of strike-slip faults in deep basins and the implications for petroleum accumulation: A case study from the Shunbei area of the Tarim Basin, China	8
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play	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
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea	8
Paleoenvironment reconstruction of the upper Paleozoic in the Linxing area, northeastern Ordos Basin, China	8
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning - A Middle East basin case study	8
The Sureste Super Basin of southern Mexico	8
Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls	8
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China	8
Ultimate expellable potentials of source rocks from selected super basins: What does “world class” look like?	8
Depositional conditions and accumulation models of tight oils in the middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in Junggar Basin, northwestern China: New insights from geochemical analysis	7
The Songliao Super Basin in northeastern China	7
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	7
Integrated geochemical approach to determine the source of methane in gas hydrate from Green Canyon Block 955 in the Gulf of Mexico	7
Tampico-Misantla: A premier super basin in waiting	7
Petroleum migration and accumulation: Modeling and applications	7
The West Siberian Super Basin: The largest and most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the world	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
Thermal history reconstruction from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data of the Bongor Basin, the Republic of Chad	7
Identification of magnetic enhancement at hydrocarbon-fluid contacts	7
Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, and hydrocarbon habitats across the Arabian plate	7
Use of exploration methods to repurpose and extend the life of a super basin as a carbon storage hub for the energy transition	7
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	7
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China	7
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea	6
Seismic interpretation workflows for deep-water systems: A practical guide for the subsurface	6
Resource potential of the Jurassic gas system, northern margin of the Qaidam Basin, northwestern China	6
Methane migration mechanisms for the Green Canyon Block 955 gas hydrate reservoir, northern Gulf of Mexico	6
Skempton’s poroelastic relaxation: The mechanism that accounts for the distribution of pore pressure and exhumation-related fractures in black shale of the Appalachian Basin	6
The prediction of organic-rich reservoir facies within the Late Pennsylvanian Cline shale (also known as Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas	6
Characterizing maturity of reservoir pyrobitumen with strong anisotropy: A calibration between reflectance and laser Raman spectral parameters	6

Origin of giant Ordovician cavern reservoirs in the Halahatang oil field in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	6
A geological assessment of the carbon storage potential of structural closures in the East Midlands shelf, United Kingdom Southern North Sea	6
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	6
Structural traps and seals for expanding CO2 storage in the northern Horda platform, North Sea	6
Multiscale pore characterization of coal measure reservoirs and gas storage and transport behavior in Yanchuannan gas field of China	6
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	6
Applying deep learning for identifying bioturbation from core photographs	6
Use of global analogues to improve decision quality in exploration, development, and production	6
Carbonate cements in Eocene turbidite sandstones, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Origin, distribution, and effect on reservoir properties	5
Deep-water reservoir distribution on a salt-influenced slope, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	5
Reservoir geology of the Berea Sandstone (uppermost Devonian), eastern Kentucky	5
Geochemistry and origin of the Bozhong 19-6 condensates: Implications for deep gas accumulation in the Bohai Bay Basin	5
Stratigraphic and sedimentary constraints on presalt carbonate reservoirs of the South Atlantic Margin, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	5
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	5
Impact of natural fractures on production from an unconventional shale: The Delaware Basin Wolfcamp shale	5
Historical and emerging super basins of Southeast Asia	5
Bitumen geochemistry and producibility in the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation shale oil play	5
Multiphase activation of the boundary fault system of the eastern Dampier subbasin, Northwest Shelf of Australia	5
Sulfate-reducing bacteria streamers and iron sulfides abruptly occlude porosity and increase hydraulic resistance in proppant-filled shale fractures	5
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	5
Lithofacies identification in cores using deep learning segmentation and the role of geoscientists: Turbidite deposits (Gulf of Mexico and North Sea)	5
Fractal characteristics of pore networks and sealing capacity of Ordovician carbonate cap rocks: A case study based on outcrop analogues from the Tarim Basin, China	5
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes	5
Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation and modeling of offshore synrift and postrift Cretaceous sequences in the Kribi-Campo subbasin, southern Cameroon	5
Gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part II, Insights and future challenges	5
Effects of extractable organic matter from mature lacustrine shale on the pore structure and their implications	5
Carbon dioxide storage efficiency involving the complex reservoir units associated with Irati and Rio Bonito Formations, Paraná Basin, Brazil	5