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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Carrier beds as reservoirs	68
From seep carbonates down to petroleum systems: An outcrop study from the southeastern France Basin	52
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II	42
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction	30
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia	26
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding	24
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	24
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media	24
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids	21
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger	19
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone	16
Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia	16
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments	15
Lithological, petrophysical, and seal properties of mass-transport complexes, northern Gulf of Mexico	15
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California	14
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville	14
Rock classification in the Eagle Ford Formation through integration of petrophysical, geological, geochemical, and geomechanical characterization	13
Resource potential of the Jurassic gas system, northern margin of the Qaidam Basin, northwestern China	13
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China	13
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China	13
Metazoan-algal benthic ecosystems enhance automicritic slope boundstone: The Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou carbonate platform, Xiliang margin, China	13
Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas	12
Chemostatistic allocation of shale oil production using acidic heterocompounds	12
Fluid evolution in deeply buried and karstified carbonate reservoirs of the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China	11
Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation	11

Geochemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons in source rocks of the Cretaceous Orange Basin	11
Hypogenic karstic cavities formed by tectonic-driven fluid mixing in the Ordovician carbonates from the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	11
Reservoir characterization and comparison of seismicity-monitoring methods at West Seminole for CO2 utilization and storage	11
Using high-resolution microresistivity image logs to reconstruct paleoenvironments and stratal architectures: An example from the McMurray Formation, Leismer area, northeastern Alberta, Canada	11
Application of a deep-water stratigraphic framework to the production of the Wolfcampian units in the Permian Basin	10
Thermodynamic insights into the production of methane hydrate reservoirs from depressurization of pressure cores	10
M. King Hubbert and the rise and fall of peak oil theory	10
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes	10
Tectonic relief evolution and large-scale karstification of an Ordovician supergiant reservoir, North Tarim uplift, northwestern China	10
The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin as a component of the Mancos total petroleum system	10
A geochemical analysis of produced water(s) from the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Delaware Basin, western Texas	10
An integrated correlation from platform to basin: Implications for understanding the Ediacaran succession of Oman	10
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China	9
Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States	9
In situ stress state in the petroliferous Barmer Basin, northwestern India: A new geomechanical approach	9
Laboratory study on microbial fractionation mechanisms of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in coalbed biomethane	9
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play	9
The West Siberian Super Basin: The largest and most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the world	9
Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues	9
Salt deposition in ultradeep brine settings by dynamic inflow and evaporation	9
Unconventional reservoir characterization by seismic inversion and machine learning of the Bakken Formation	9
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, China	9
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China	8
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment	8
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China	8
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin	7
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks	7
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century	7
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin	7
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China	7
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	7
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	7
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation	7
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	7
Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene	6
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion	6
Petroleum system evaluation of the world’s deepest (>5000 m) volcanic reservoirs, Sichuan Basin, China	6
Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins	6
Automatic facies classification using convolutional neural network for three-dimensional outcrop data: Application to the outcrop of the mass-transport deposit	6
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism	6
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation	6
Using x-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico	6
Predicting unconventional reservoir potential from wire-line logs: A correlation between compositional and geomechanical properties of the Duvernay shale play of western Alberta, Canada	6
Origin of Eocene lacustrine dolomite and evolution of multiple diagenetic fluids in the Huanghekou sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	6
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	6
The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?	6
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	6
Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting	6
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	6
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia	5

Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea	5
Molecular structure characterization of kerogen in contact metamorphic shales: Insights into the effect of graphitization on organic matter pores	5
Mapping natural oil seeps in the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia) using WorldView-3 satellite data	5
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning - A Middle East basin case study	5
Interpretation, characterization, and slip hazard assessment of faults in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States	5
Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan	5
Structural geometry and evolution of the Carter-Knox structure, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma	5
Secondary migration of heavy oil in low dip basins	5
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>: Reply	5
An empirical approach to estimating hydrocarbon column heights for improved predrill volume prediction in hydrocarbon exploration	5
Characterization of spatial relationships between fractures from different sets using K-function analysis	5
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China	5
Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow	5
Water depth–terrigenous input dynamic equilibrium controls the Eocene lacustrine shale laminae records in Jiyang depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China	5
Characterization of oils and potential source rocks in the Marietta Basin, Oklahoma and Texas	5
Introduction to Special Issue: Super basins: Selected case studies of the world’s greatest petroleum basins	5
Three-dimensional seismic classification of salt structure morphologies across the Southern North Sea	5
An empirical method to correct nuclear magnetic resonance porosity of tight sandstone using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance data	5
Quantifying concretion distribution in shales of the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco system, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	5
Use of global analogues to improve decision quality in exploration, development, and production	5
Lithofacies control on the formation of deformation bands: An example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group (Induan–Anisian, Lower Triassic) in western England	5
The presalt Santos Basin, a super basin of the twenty-first century	5
Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan	5
Ultimate expellable potentials of source rocks from selected super basins: What does “world class” look like?	5
Diagenesis of the San Andres Formation in the Seminole unit in Central Basin platform, western Texas	5
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 1: Diapirism, deformation, dating, and exploration in honor of Bruno Vendeville and all the unsung heroes	5
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 China	5