OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Building an EPA Class VI Permit Application	41
Application of Data Mining to Small Data Sets: Identification of Key Production Drivers in Heterogeneous Unconventional Resources	23
Managing Risk in Well Placement Optimization within an Expected Utility Framework	15
Combined Machine-Learning and Finite-Element Approach for Multiscale 3D Stress Modeling	15
Carbonated Water Injection Effects on Lacustrine Carbonates of Mupe Member, Lower Purbeck Group (Upper Jurassic), United Kingdom	15
A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part A: Experimental Observations	14
Analysis of Production Data from Communicating Multifractured Horizontal Wells Using the Dynamic Drainage Area Concept	13
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	12
Stochastic Estimation of Barrels of Oil Equivalent Conversion Factor for Natural Gas Volumes from Offshore Carbonate Fields in Ultradeep Waters	12
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	10
Lithofacies, Deposition, and Clinoforms Characterization Using Detailed Core Data, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logs, and Modular Formation Dynamics Tests for Mishrif Formation Intervals in West Qurna/1	10
Optimization of an Integrated Reservoir-Production System Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion and Sobol Sensitivity Analysis	9
Athabasca Toe-to-Heel Air Injection Pilot: Evaluation of the Spontaneous Ignition Based on Apparent Atomic Hydrogen-Carbon Ratio Variation	9
Broad Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy Characterization of Organic Porosity Evolution During Thermal Treatment of Bazhenov Shale Sample	9
Bayesian Deep Decline Curve Analysis: A New Approach for Well Oil Production Modeling and Forecasting	9
Risk Management and Optimization in Real-Time Noncondensable Gas Co-injection under Economic Uncertainty	8
Comparison of Type Well Generation Methods for Unconventional Reservoirs	8
CO2 Flow Regimes Comparison between North Sea and US Classes of Reservoirs	8
An Empirical Analog Benchmarking Workflow to Improve Hydrocarbon Recovery	8
Pressure-Transient Analysis for Waterflooding with the Influence of Dynamic Induced Fracture in Tight Reservoir: Model and Case Studies	7
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	7
Mangala Polymer Flood Performance: Connecting the Dots Through In-Situ Polymer Sampling	7
Effects of Imbibition and Compaction during Well Shut-In on Ultimate Shale Oil Recovery: A Numerical Study	7
Temperature Dependence of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation Time in Carbonate Reservoirs	7
Comprehensive Fluid Compositional Analysis Program to Support the Interpretation of Chichimene Field In-Situ Combustion Pilot	7

Numerical Simulation of Nonequilibrium Foamy Oil for Cyclic Solvent Injection in Reservoirs after Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand	6
The Effect of Relative Permeability Hysteresis on the Design of an Optimal Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Process	6
Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements	6
Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation	6
Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Rocks from the Yingxi Area, Southwest Qaidam Basin, China	6
The Effect of Nano Heavy Metal Oxide Particles on the Wettability of Carbonate Reservoir Rock	6
Improved Well-Control Progressive Optimization with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates and Manifold Mapping	6
Production Forecasting with the Interwell Interference by Integrating Graph Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network	6
Integrated Fracture Characterization of Thamama Reservoirs in Abu Dhabi Oil Field, United Arab Emirates	6
Fluid Identification Derived from Formation Chlorine Measurements and Reservoir Characterization of Tight Carbonate in Sichuan Basin, China	6
Simulating Oil and Water Production in Reservoirs with Generative Deep Learning	6
Instow: A Full-Field, Multipatterned Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flood—Analyses and Comparison of Phases 1 and 2	6
Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	6
Geophysical Modeling and Its Contribution on the Reservoir Characterization of Al Baraka in El Gallaba Plain, South Egypt	5
Effect of Temperature on Two-Phase Gas/Oil Relative Permeability in Viscous Oil Reservoirs: A Combined Experimental and History-Matching-Based Analysis	5
Lessons Learned from a Prematurely Ended High-Pressure Air Injection Test in a Light Oil Naturally Fractured Reservoir	5
Flow-Through Experiments of Reactive Ba-Sr-Mg Brines in Mons Chalk at North Sea Reservoir Temperature at Different Injection Rates	5
An Investigation on the Process of Reimbibition of Oil and Its Impact on Oil Recovery in the Yates Field	5
History-Matching and Forecasting Production Rate and Bottomhole Pressure Data Using an Enhanced Physics-Based Data-Driven Simulator	5
Characterization of the Giant Chicontepec Tight Oil Paleochannel in Mexico and Integration with Actual Cumulative Oil Production	5
Conditioning Model Ensembles to Various Observed Data (Field and Regional Level) by Applying Machine-Learning-Augmented Workflows to a Mature Field with 70 Years of Production History	5
Special Connections for Representing Multiscale Heterogeneities in Reservoir Simulation	5
Active Fault Detection by an Automatic Breakout Geometry Characterization Algorithm from Ultrasonic Borehole Imager	5
Geomechanical and Fracture Network Interpretation of a Devonian Outcrop	5
Real-Time Rock-Properties Estimation for Geosteering: Statistical Rock-Physics-Driven Inversion of Seismic Acoustic Impedance and LWD Ultradeep Azimuthal Resistivity	5
Analytical Rate-Transient Analysis and Production Performance of Waterflooded Fields with Delayed Injection Support	4
Reservoir Properties Alteration in Carbonate Rocks after In-Situ Combustion	4
Shale Wettability: Untangling the Elusive Property with an Integrated Imbibition and Imaging Technique and a New Hypothetical Theory	4
In-Situ Steam Generation Using Mist Water-Air Injection as Enhanced Oil Recovery and Energy Efficiency Process: Kinetic Modeling and Numerical Simulation Approach	4
Experimental Evaluation of Blends Containing Lineal Alkylbenzene Sulfonates for Surfactant Flooding in Carbonate Reservoirs	4
The Influence of Development Target Depletion on Stress Evolution and Infill Drilling of Upside Target in the Permian Basin	4
Perturbative-Integro-Differential Solution for the Nonlinear Hydraulic Diffusivity Equation for Infinite-Acting-Oil Flow in a Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoir	4
Application of Multilateral Wells for Production and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Case Studies from Canada	4
Petrofacies-Dependent Cementation Factor Relationship for Low-Resistivity Miocene Carbonates: Mumbai Offshore Basin	4
Small-Scale EOR Pilot in the Eastern Eagle Ford Boosts Production	4
Performance Evaluation of Nanocellulose-Engineered Robust Preformed Particle Gel upon Extrusion Through 1 to 1.5 mm Bead-Packed Porous Media	4
Long-Term Microbial DNA-Based Monitoring of the Mature Sarukawa Oil Field in Japan	4
Geomechanical Characterization of the Wufeng and Longmaxi Shales: Mechanical and Velocity Anisotropy, Static and Dynamic Moduli	4
Experimental Measurements and Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption on Carbon Surface	3
A Revised Gassmann Fluid Replacement Model Based on Neutron-Density Logs in Shaly Sandstone Reservoirs	3
Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) Algorithm for Permeability Estimation in Bahariya Formation	3
Using the Flowing Material Balance Model to Determine Which Wells Out of a Group of Wells belong to the Same Common Pool	3
Message Passing Interface (MPI) Parallelization of Iteratively Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanics Codes for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media. Part 1: Methodology an	3
Estimation of Formation Porosity in Carbonates Using Mechanical Specific Energy Calculated from Drilling Parameters	3
Application of Machine Learning to Interpret Steady-State Drainage Relative Permeability Experiments	3
RTA-Assisted Numerical History-Matching Workflow	3
Well Interference and Fracture Geometry Investigation Using Production and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data in an Unconventional Reservoir	3
Containment of Water-Injection-Induced Fractures: The Role of Heat Conduction and Thermal Stresses	3
Thermal Magnetic Properties Variation of Rock During In-Situ Combustion Process	3
A Hybrid Embedded Discrete Fracture Model and Dual-Porosity, Dual-Permeability Workflow for Hierarchical Treatment of Fractures in Practical Field Studies	3

Reservoir Modeling, History Matching, and Characterization with a Reservoir Graph Network Model	3
Data-Driven Reduced-Order Models for Volve Field Using Reservoir Simulation and Physics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques	3
A Systematic Experimental Study to Understand the Performance and Efficiency of Gas Injection in Carbonate Reservoirs	3
Neutron Response Modeling to Track Lean Gas Plume in Recycled Gas Cap Reservoir in Concurrent Gas Cap-Oil Rim Development: A Step Forward	3
Artificial Intelligence Coreflooding Simulator for Special Core Data Analysis	3
Smartwater Synergy with Chemical EOR: Studying the Potential Synergy with Surfactants	3
A Practical and Innovative Workflow to Support the Numerical Simulation of CO2 Storage in Large Field-Scale Models	2
The Effect of Compressibility and Outer Boundaries on Incipient Viscous Fingering	2
Experimental Study on the Impact of Clay Distribution and Mineralogy on NMR T2 and Internal Gradient: Insights From Well-Controlled Physical Samples	2
Evaluation of ATBS Polymers for Mangala Polymer Flood	2
Improving Alkali Polymer Flooding Economics by Capitalizing on Polymer Solution Property Evolution at High pH	2
Water Saturation Modeling Challenges in Oil-Down-to Wells: An Example from a Multidarcy North Sea Reservoir	2
Determination of Concentration-Dependent Effective Diffusivity of Each Gas Component of a Binary Mixture in Porous Media Saturated with Heavy Oil under Reservoir Conditions	2
Comparative Study of In-Situ Combustion Tests on Consolidated and Crushed Cores	2
Pilot Test of Surfactant/Polymer Flood with Mixtures of Anionic/Cationic Surfactants for High-Temperature Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoir	2
Modeling Water Injectivity Tests under Multiple Rate Schedule: An Approximate Solution	2
On the Application of Probabilistic Decline Curve Analysis to Unconventional Reservoirs	2
Fault Rock Property Prediction on Jurassic Clastics of the Barents Sea, Norway	2
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	2
Selection of a Dimensionality Reduction Method: An Application to Deal with High-Dimensional Geostatistical Realizations in Oil Reservoirs	2
Pressure Transient Analysis for Water Injection Wells with Waterflooding-Induced Nonsimultaneously Closed Multistorage Fractures: Semianalytical Model and Case Study	2
Fault Identification for the Purposes of Evaluating the Risk of Induced Seismicity: A Novel Application of the Flowback DFIT	2
Improving Prediction of Fracture Distribution Using Microseismic Data and Acoustic Logging Measurements	2
Improvement to Gravity Drainage Recovery by Repressurization as a Criterion to Screen and Rank Naturally Fractured Reservoirs for Gas Injection	2
Review of Offshore Chemical Flooding Field Applications and Key Lessons Learned	2
Buoyant Flow of H2 Vs. CO2 in Storage Aquifers: Implications to Geological Screening	2
A Bayesian Framework for Addressing the Uncertainty in Production Forecasts of Tight-Oil Reservoirs Using a Physics-Based Two-Phase Flow Model	2
Azimuthal Investigation of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir	2
Catanionic Surfactants for Improving Oil Production in Carbonate Reservoirs	2
Automatic Multiwell Assessment of Flow-Related Petrophysical Properties of Tight-Gas Sandstones Based on the Physics of Mud-Filtrate Invasion	2