OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of SPE Drilling & Completion 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling Fracture Closure with Proppant Settling and Embedment during Shut-In and Production	27
Practical Machine-Learning Applications in Well-Drilling Operations	25
Identification and Mitigation of Friction- and Cutting-Action-Induced Stick/Slip Vibrations with PDC Bits	19
A Field Case Study of Managed Pressure Drilling in Offshore Ultra High-Pressure High-Temperature Exploration Well in the South China Sea	18
Shape Memory Polymers as Lost Circulation Materials for Sealing Wide-Opened Natural Fractures	18
Polyoxyethylene Quaternary Ammonium Gemini Surfactants as a Completion Fluid Additive to Mitigate Formation Damage	17
Experimental Investigation of Aloe-Vera-Based CuO Nanofluid as a Novel Additive in Improving the Rheological and Filtration Properties of Water-Based Drilling Fluid	16
Simulation and Measurement of High-Frequency Torsional Oscillation (HFTO)/High-Frequency Axial Oscillation (HFAO) and Downhole HFTO Mitigation: Knowledge Gains Continue Using Embedded High-Frequency D	15
Preloading Depleted Parent Wells To Avoid Fracture Hits: Some Important Design Considerations	15
Automated Surface Measurements of Drilling Fluid Properties: Field Application in the Permian Basin	15
Matrix Acidizing: A Laboratory and Field Investigation of Sludge Formation and Removal of Oil-Based Drilling Mud Filter Cake	14
Measurement of Mud Motor Back-Drive Dynamics, Associated Risks, and Benefits of Real-Time Detection and Mitigation Measures	13
A Semiempirical Model for Rate of Penetration with Application to an Offshore Gas Field	13
Investigation of PDC Cutter Structural Integrity in Hard Rocks	12
Prediction of Penetration Rate for PDC Bits Using Indices of Rock Drillability, Cuttings Removal, and Bit Wear	11
Large-Scale Deployment of a Closed-Loop Drilling Optimization System: Implementation and Field Results	10
Study of Ultrasonic Logs and Seepage Potential on Sandwich Sections Retrieved from a North Sea Production Well	10
Study on Debonding Issue of Cementing Interfaces Caused by Perforation with Numerical Simulation and Experimental Measures	10
An Algorithm to Automatically Zero Weight on Bit and Differential Pressure and Resulting Improvements in Data Quality	9
Modeling and Numerical Implementation of Managed-Pressure-Drilling Systems for the Assessment of Pressure-Control Systems	9
The Effect of Inclination on the Stability of Foam Systems in Drilling and Well Operations	9
Analysis of Torsional Stick-Slip Situations from Recorded Downhole Rotational Speed Measurements	9
Early Detection and Estimation of Kick in Managed Pressure Drilling	9
One Stage Forward or Two Stages Back: What Are We Treating? Identification of Internal Casing Erosion during Hydraulic Fracturing—A Montney Case Study Using Ultrasonic and Fiber-Optic Diagnostics	8
Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport with Non-Newtonian Fluid in an Inclined Well Using Visualization and Electrical Resistance Tomography Techniques	8

Standardization of Mechanical Specific Energy Equations and Nomenclature	8
On Improving Algorithm Efficiency of Gas-Kick Simulations toward Automated Influx Management: A Robertson Differential-Algebraic-Equation Problem Approach	8
Pressure Decline Analysis in Fractured Horizontal Wells: Comparison between Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test, Flowback, and Main Stage Falloff	7
Numerical Study on the Impact of Spiral Tortuous Hole on Cuttings Removal in Horizontal Wells	7
Formation-Damage Assessment and Filter-Cake Characterization of Ca-Bentonite Fluids Enhanced with Nanoparticles	7
A Novel Method of Removing Emulsion Blockage after Drilling Operations Using Thermochemical Fluid	6
Quantifying Erosion of Downhole Solids Control Equipment during Openhole, Multistage Fracturing	6
Investigating the Properties of Modified Drilling Mud with Barite/Polyacrylamide Nanocomposite	6
Smart Expandable Fiber Additive To Prevent Formation of Microannuli	6
Comparative Evaluation of Bismuth-Silver and Bismuth-Tin Alloys for Plug and Abandonment	6
Strategies for Prevention of Downhole Tool Failure Caused by High Bottomhole Temperature in Geothermal and High-Pressure/High-Temperature Oil and Gas Wells	6
Identifying Formation Creep: Ultrasonic Bond Logging Field Examples	5
Sand Screen with Check-Valve Inflow Control Devices	5
Assessment of Lost Circulation Material Particle-Size Distribution on Fracture Sealing: A Numerical Study	5
Fracture Prevention Following Offshore Well Blowouts: Selecting the Appropriate Capping Stack Shut-In Strategy	5
Practical Considerations in Alternate Fracturing with Shift/Fracture/Close Operation: Learnings from Geomechanical Modeling and Downhole Diagnostics	5
Assisted Cement Log Interpretation Using Machine Learning	5
Use of Fiber-Optic Information To Detect and Investigate the Gas-in-Riser Phenomenon	5
Severe Casing Failure in Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing Using Dual-Scale Modeling Approach	5
A Dynamic Model with Friction for Comprehensive Tubular-Stress Analysis	4
A Generalized Solution to the Point-to-Target Problem Using the Minimum Curvature Method	4
Shale-Oil-Fracturing Designs Move to Just-Good-Enough Proppant Economics with Regional Sand	4
Quantifying Global and Random Uncertainties in High Resolution Global Geomagnetic Field Models Used for Directional Drilling	4
A Mechanistic Model for Wellbore Cleanout in Horizontal and Inclined Wells	4
Design to First Deployment: Pressure-Activated Sliding Sleeve for Single-Trip Completion	4
Leakoff and Flowback Experiments on Tight Carbonate Core Plugs	4
Investigation of Dehydroxylated Sodium Bentonite as a Pozzolanic Extender in Oil-Well Cement	4
Design for Reliability: Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Cased and Perforated Completions with Standalone Screen	4
Risk-Controlled Wellbore Stability Criterion Based on a Machine-Learning-Assisted Finite-Element Model	4
Unplugging Standalone Sand-Control Screens Using High-Power Shock Waves	4
Evaluating Stimulation Effectiveness with Permanent Optical Fiber and Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring: Bakken Shale Case Study	4
Enhancing Reamer Drilling Performance in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Wells	4
Evaluation of Separation Factors Used in Wellbore Collision Avoidance	4
Factors Controlling the Flow and Connectivity in Fracture Networks in Naturally Fractured Geothermal Formations	4
Well Shear Associated with Conventional and Unconventional Operations: Diagnosis and Mechanisms	4
Application of Nanosilica in Glycerol-Based Drilling Fluid for Shale Formations	4
Synthesis of Asphalt Nanoparticles and Their Effects on Drilling Fluid Properties and Shale Dispersion	3
Simulating Drillstring Dynamics Motion and Post-Buckling State with Advanced Transient Dynamics Model	3
Classification of Drilled Lithology in Real-Time Using Deep Learning with Online Calibration	3
Evaluating Precision of Annular Pressure Buildup (APB) Estimation Using Machine-Learning Tools	3
Automatic Interpretation of Oil and Gas Well Cement Evaluation Logs Using Fuzzy Convolutional Neural Networks	3
Experiments with Stand-Alone Sand-Screen Specimens for Thermal Projects	3
Quantification of Shrinkage-Induced Cracking in Oilwell Cement Sheaths	3
Influence Laws for Hydraulic Sealing Capacity in Shale Gas Well Cementing	3
Investigation of the Internal Blowout Accident Involving Overpressured Reservoirs: Case of CI-11 Well, Southern Tunisia	3
Relief Well Challenges and Solutions for Subsea Big-Bore Field Developments	3
Experimental Evaluation of a New Nonaromatic Nonionic Surfactant for Deep Carbonate Stimulation	3
Correlating Surface and Downhole Perforation Entry Hole Measurements Leads to Development of Improved Perforating Systems	2
Real-Time Underreamer Vibration Predicting, Monitoring, and Decision-Making Using Hybrid Modeling and a Process Digital Twin	2
Effect of Fault Slip on the Casing Passability of Horizontal Shale Oil and Gas Wells	2

How to Improve Accuracy of a Kick Tolerance Model by Considering the Effects of Kick Classification, Frictional Losses, Pore Pressure Profile, and Influx Temperature	2
Analysis of Riser Gas Pressure from Full-Scale Gas-in-Riser Experiments with Instrumentation	2
Measurement While Drilling Mud Pulse Signal Denoising and Extraction Approach Based on Particle-Swarm-Optimized Time-Varying Filtering Empirical Mode Decomposition	2
New Experimental Results Show the Application of Fiber Optic to Detect and to Track Gas Position in Marine Risers and Shed Light on the Gas Migration Phenomenon Inside a Closed Well	2
A Generalized Empirical Expression for Collapse of Worn Tubulars Using Stress Concentration Factors	2
Prediction of Reservoir-Kick Effect and Its Management in the Managed-Pressure-Drilling Operation	2
An Accurate Model for Prediction of Turbulent Frictional Pressure Loss of Power-Law Fluids in Eccentric Geometries	2
Empirical Random Kick Model and Casing Reliability	2
Fluid Circulation Effects on Torque and Drag Results, Modeling, and Validation	2
Crack Propagation Hypothesis and a Model To Calculate the Optimum Water-Soaking Period in Shale Gas/Oil Wells for Maximizing Well Productivity	2
API Connection Leak Equation Extended with Dependence on Axial Force and Backup Pressure	2
Completion Designs in Horizontal Well with Transverse Hydraulic Fractures for Enhanced Recovery in Unconventional or Tight Reservoirs	2
Directional Drilling Automation Using a Laboratory-Scale Drilling Rig: SPE University Competition	2
When Slick Is Not Smooth: Bottomhole Assembly Selection and Its Impact on Wellbore Quality	2
New Triaxial Connection Safety Factor for Tubular Design	2