OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part A: Experimental Observations	21
Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation	20
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	17
Risk Management and Optimization in Real-Time Noncondensable Gas Co-injection under Economic Uncertainty	15
Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements	15
Application of Data Mining to Small Data Sets: Identification of Key Production Drivers in Heterogeneous Unconventional Resources	13
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	13
Fluid Identification Derived from Formation Chlorine Measurements and Reservoir Characterization of Tight Carbonate in Sichuan Basin, China	12
Active Fault Detection by an Automatic Breakout Geometry Characterization Algorithm from Ultrasonic Borehole Imager	12
Thermal Magnetic Properties Variation of Rock During In-Situ Combustion Process	11
RTA-Assisted Numerical History-Matching Workflow	11
Application of Machine Learning to Interpret Steady-State Drainage Relative Permeability Experiments	11
New Insights into Surfactant Adsorption Estimation in Carbonates under Harsh Conditions Using Surface Complexation Modeling	10
Methods to Enhance Success of Field Application of In-Situ Combustion for Heavy Oil Recovery	10
Decoding the Impact of Injection-Induced Fractures on the Sweep Efficiency of a Mature Polymer Flood through Pressure Falloff Analysis	10
Experimental Study on the Impact of Clay Distribution and Mineralogy on NMR T2 and Internal Gradient: Insights From Well-Controlled Physical Samples	10
Modeling Two-Phase Flow in Tight Core Plugs with an Application for Relative Permeability Measurement	10
A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part B: Interpretations	10
Comparative Evaluation of a Functions for the Soave-Redlich-Kwong Equation of State and the Peng-Robinson Equation of State to Predict Saturation Pressures for Gas(es)-Heavy Oil/Bitumen-Water S	10
A Deep Learning Framework Using Graph Convolutional Networks for Adaptive Correction of Interwell Connectivity and Gated Recurrent Unit for Performance Prediction	10
Progress Toward Pilot-Scale Simulation of In-Situ Combustion Incorporating Geomechanics	10
Managing Risk in Well Placement Optimization within an Expected Utility Framework	9
Athabasca Toe-to-Heel Air Injection Pilot: Evaluation of the Spontaneous Ignition Based on Apparent Atomic Hydrogen-Carbon Ratio Variation	9
A Novel 2.5D Deep Network Inversion of Gravity Anomalies to Estimate Basement Topography	9
Stochastic Estimation of Barrels of Oil Equivalent Conversion Factor for Natural Gas Volumes from Offshore Carbonate Fields in Ultradeep Waters	8

Improving Prediction of Fracture Distribution Using Microseismic Data and Acoustic Logging Measurements	8
Measurement of Effective Hydrogen-Methane Gas Diffusion Coefficients in Reservoir Rocks	8
History-Matching and Forecasting Production Rate and Bottomhole Pressure Data Using an Enhanced Physics-Based Data-Driven Simulator	8
Reservoir Modeling, History Matching, and Characterization with a Reservoir Graph Network Model	8
Experimental Measurements and Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption on Carbon Surface	8
Modeling Water Injectivity Tests under Multiple Rate Schedule: An Approximate Solution	8
Rheology and Injectivity Studies on Scleroglucan Biopolymer for Carbonates under Harsh Conditions	8
An Investigation on the Process of Reimbibition of Oil and Its Impact on Oil Recovery in the Yates Field	8
Building an EPA Class VI Permit Application	8
Static Adsorption Evaluation for Anionic-Nonionic Surfactant Mixture on Sandstone in the Presence of Crude Oil at High Reservoir Temperature Condition	8
New Insights into Hybrid Low-Salinity Polymer Flooding through a Coupled Geochemical-Based Modeling Approach	8
The Role of Diffusion on Reservoir Performance in Underground Hydrogen Storage	8
Optimization of an Integrated Reservoir-Production System Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion and Sobol Sensitivity Analysis	8
Lithofacies and Diagenetic Controls on Tight Silty and Sandy Upper Triassic Reservoirs of the Heshui Oil Field (Ordos Basin, North China)	7
Effects of Overpressure on Mechanical Properties of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs through Novel Use of a Sonic Overpressure Indicator	7
Estimating Reservoir Permeability and Fracture Surface Area Using the Flowback DFIT (DFIT-FBA)	7
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fine Migration During Low-Salinity Water Flooding: Effect of Brine Composition on Interparticle Forces	7
A Simple Analytical Model for Oil Production from Partially Fractured Reservoirs to Estimate Size of Finite Fracture Networks	7
Hydrocarbon Field (Re-)Development as Markov Decision Process	6
Robust Value Quantification of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods Using Ensemble-Based Optimization	5
Performance Evaluation of Nanocellulose-Engineered Robust Preformed Particle Gel upon Extrusion Through 1 to 1.5 mm Bead-Packed Porous Media	5
Catanionic Surfactants for Improving Oil Production in Carbonate Reservoirs	5
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	5
Laboratory Studies for Design of a Foam Pilot for Reducing Gas Channeling from Gas Cap in Production Well in Messoyakhskoye Field	5
Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Rocks from the Yingxi Area, Southwest Qaidam Basin, China	5
Determination of Concentration-Dependent Effective Diffusivity of Each Gas Component of a Binary Mixture in Porous Media Saturated with Heavy Oil under Reservoir Conditions	5
Estimation of Formation Porosity in Carbonates Using Mechanical Specific Energy Calculated from Drilling Parameters	5
Electrical, Diffusional, Hydraulic, and Geometrical Tortuosity Anisotropy Quantification Using 3D Computed Tomography Scan Image Data	5
Comprehensive Fluid Compositional Analysis Program to Support the Interpretation of Chichimene Field In-Situ Combustion Pilot	5
The Effect of Relative Permeability Hysteresis on the Design of an Optimal Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Process	5
Using the Flowing Material Balance Model to Determine Which Wells Out of a Group of Wells belong to the Same Common Pool	5
Fault Identification for the Purposes of Evaluating the Risk of Induced Seismicity: A Novel Application of the Flowback DFIT	5
Data-Driven Reduced-Order Models for Volve Field Using Reservoir Simulation and Physics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques	4
Evaluation of ATBS Polymers for Mangala Polymer Flood	4
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 2: Parallel Perfo	4
Azimuthal Investigation of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir	4
Azimuthal Prestack Seismic Anisotropic Inversion on a Deep and Tight Carbonate Reservoir From the North Potwar Basin of Pakistan	4
Oil Recovery Dynamics of Natural Gas Huff ‘n’ Puff in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs Considering the Effects of Nanopore Confinement and Its Proportion: A Mechanistic Study	4
Polysulphate: A New Enhanced Oil Recovery Additive to Maximize the Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs at High Temperature	4
New Insights on Characteristics of the Near-Wellbore Fractured Zone from Simulated High-Resolution Distributed Strain Sensing Data	4
Evaluation of Effects of Waterflooding-Induced Bilayer Fractures on Tight Reservoir Using Pressure-Transient Analysis Method	3
Novel Proppant Logging Technique for Infill Drilling of Unconventional Shale Wells	3
Impact of Financial Assumptions on Economic Viability of Incremental Projects	3
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	3
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	3
Simulating Oil and Water Production in Reservoirs with Generative Deep Learning	3
New Insights into the Understanding of In-Situ Combustion: Important Considerations When Modeling the Process	3
Integration of 3D Volumetric Computed Tomography Scan Image Data with Conventional Well Logs for Detection of Petrophysical Rock Classes	3
Data Assimilation of Production and Multiple 4D Seismic Acquisitions in a Deepwater Field Using Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation	3
A New Workflow for Improved Resistivity-Based Water Saturation Assessment in Organic-Rich Mudrocks: Application to Haynesville, Eagle Ford, and Woodford Formations	3

Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	3
Broad Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy Characterization of Organic Porosity Evolution During Thermal Treatment of Bazhenov Shale Sample	3
Effect of Temperature on Two-Phase Gas/Oil Relative Permeability in Viscous Oil Reservoirs: A Combined Experimental and History-Matching-Based Analysis	3
Analysis of Vertical Permeability and Its Influence on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage in a Carbonate Reservoir	3
Genesis, Distribution, and Characterization of a Paleokarst Subsurface River System in the Tahe Area, Tarim Basin, Western China	3
The Application of Computed Tomography Scanning and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Rock Typing of Polymineral Clastic Reservoirs	3
Production Forecasting with the Interwell Interference by Integrating Graph Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network	3
Data Assimilation Using Principal Component Analysis and Artificial Neural Network	3
Special Connections for Representing Multiscale Heterogeneities in Reservoir Simulation	3