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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Combined Machine-Learning and Finite-Element Approach for Multiscale 3D Stress Modeling	27
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	17
Bayesian Deep Decline Curve Analysis: A New Approach for Well Oil Production Modeling and Forecasting	16
Broad Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy Characterization of Organic Porosity Evolution During Thermal Treatment of Bazhenov Shale Sample	16
Athabasca Toe-to-Heel Air Injection Pilot: Evaluation of the Spontaneous Ignition Based on Apparent Atomic Hydrogen-Carbon Ratio Variation	15
CO2 Flow Regimes Comparison between North Sea and US Classes of Reservoirs	13
Risk Management and Optimization in Real-Time Noncondensable Gas Co-injection under Economic Uncertainty	13
An Empirical Analog Benchmarking Workflow to Improve Hydrocarbon Recovery	12
Temperature Dependence of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation Time in Carbonate Reservoirs	10
Effects of Imbibition and Compaction during Well Shut-In on Ultimate Shale Oil Recovery: A Numerical Study	10
Mangala Polymer Flood Performance: Connecting the Dots Through In-Situ Polymer Sampling	10
Integrated Fracture Characterization of Thamama Reservoirs in Abu Dhabi Oil Field, United Arab Emirates	9
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	9
Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	8
Managing Risk in Well Placement Optimization within an Expected Utility Framework	8
Instow: A Full-Field, Multipatterned Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flood—Analyses and Comparison of Phases 1 and 2	8
Comprehensive Fluid Compositional Analysis Program to Support the Interpretation of Chichimene Field In-Situ Combustion Pilot	8
Application of Data Mining to Small Data Sets: Identification of Key Production Drivers in Heterogeneous Unconventional Resources	8
Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation	8
Optimization of an Integrated Reservoir-Production System Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion and Sobol Sensitivity Analysis	8
A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part A: Experimental Observations	8
Production Forecasting with the Interwell Interference by Integrating Graph Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network	8
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	7
Improved Well-Control Progressive Optimization with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates and Manifold Mapping	7
Building an EPA Class VI Permit Application	7

Pressure-Transient Analysis for Waterflooding with the Influence of Dynamic Induced Fracture in Tight Reservoir: Model and Case Studies	7
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	7
Carbonated Water Injection Effects on Lacustrine Carbonates of Mupe Member, Lower Purbeck Group (Upper Jurassic), United Kingdom	7
Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements	7
Stochastic Estimation of Barrels of Oil Equivalent Conversion Factor for Natural Gas Volumes from Offshore Carbonate Fields in Ultradeep Waters	7
Numerical Simulation of Nonequilibrium Foamy Oil for Cyclic Solvent Injection in Reservoirs after Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand	6
History-Matching and Forecasting Production Rate and Bottomhole Pressure Data Using an Enhanced Physics-Based Data-Driven Simulator	6
Experimental Evaluation of Blends Containing Lineal Alkylbenzene Sulfonates for Surfactant Flooding in Carbonate Reservoirs	6
Fluid Identification Derived from Formation Chlorine Measurements and Reservoir Characterization of Tight Carbonate in Sichuan Basin, China	6
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	6
Analytical Rate-Transient Analysis and Production Performance of Waterflooded Fields with Delayed Injection Support	6
Lessons Learned from a Prematurely Ended High-Pressure Air Injection Test in a Light Oil Naturally Fractured Reservoir	6
An Investigation on the Process of Reimbibition of Oil and Its Impact on Oil Recovery in the Yates Field	6
Perturbative-Integro-Differential Solution for the Nonlinear Hydraulic Diffusivity Equation for Infinite-Acting-Oil Flow in a Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoir	6
The Effect of Relative Permeability Hysteresis on the Design of an Optimal Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Process	6
Reservoir Properties Alteration in Carbonate Rocks after In-Situ Combustion	5
Geophysical Modeling and Its Contribution on the Reservoir Characterization of Al Baraka in El Gallaba Plain, South Egypt	5
Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Rocks from the Yingxi Area, Southwest Qaidam Basin, China	5
Characterization of the Giant Chicontepec Tight Oil Paleochannel in Mexico and Integration with Actual Cumulative Oil Production	5
Effect of Temperature on Two-Phase Gas/Oil Relative Permeability in Viscous Oil Reservoirs: A Combined Experimental and History-Matching-Based Analysis	5
Flow-Through Experiments of Reactive Ba-Sr-Mg Brines in Mons Chalk at North Sea Reservoir Temperature at Different Injection Rates	5
Petrofacies-Dependent Cementation Factor Relationship for Low-Resistivity Miocene Carbonates: Mumbai Offshore Basin	5
Small-Scale EOR Pilot in the Eastern Eagle Ford Boosts Production	5
The Effect of Nano Heavy Metal Oxide Particles on the Wettability of Carbonate Reservoir Rock	5
Performance Evaluation of Nanocellulose-Engineered Robust Preformed Particle Gel upon Extrusion Through 1 to 1.5 mm Bead-Packed Porous Media	5
Shale Wettability: Untangling the Elusive Property with an Integrated Imbibition and Imaging Technique and a New Hypothetical Theory	4
Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) Algorithm for Permeability Estimation in Bahariya Formation	4
Neutron Response Modeling to Track Lean Gas Plume in Recycled Gas Cap Reservoir in Concurrent Gas Cap-Oil Rim Development: A Step Forward	4
Real-Time Rock-Properties Estimation for Geosteering: Statistical Rock-Physics-Driven Inversion of Seismic Acoustic Impedance and LWD Ultradeep Azimuthal Resistivity	4
Geomechanical and Fracture Network Interpretation of a Devonian Outcrop	4
Containment of Water-Injection-Induced Fractures: The Role of Heat Conduction and Thermal Stresses	4
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	4
Simulating Oil and Water Production in Reservoirs with Generative Deep Learning	4
Active Fault Detection by an Automatic Breakout Geometry Characterization Algorithm from Ultrasonic Borehole Imager	4
The Influence of Development Target Depletion on Stress Evolution and Infill Drilling of Upside Target in the Permian Basin	4
Estimation of Formation Porosity in Carbonates Using Mechanical Specific Energy Calculated from Drilling Parameters	4
A Revised Gassmann Fluid Replacement Model Based on Neutron-Density Logs in Shaly Sandstone Reservoirs	4
Special Connections for Representing Multiscale Heterogeneities in Reservoir Simulation	4
Comparative Study of In-Situ Combustion Tests on Consolidated and Crushed Cores	3
Reservoir Modeling, History Matching, and Characterization with a Reservoir Graph Network Model	3
Application of Machine Learning to Interpret Steady-State Drainage Relative Permeability Experiments	3
A Practical and Innovative Workflow to Support the Numerical Simulation of CO2 Storage in Large Field-Scale Models	3
Geomechanical Characterization of the Wufeng and Longmaxi Shales: Mechanical and Velocity Anisotropy, Static and Dynamic Moduli	3
Experimental Measurements and Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption on Carbon Surface	3
Smartwater Synergy with Chemical EOR: Studying the Potential Synergy with Surfactants	3
On the Application of Probabilistic Decline Curve Analysis to Unconventional Reservoirs	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
In-Situ Steam Generation Using Mist Water-Air Injection as Enhanced Oil Recovery and Energy Efficiency Process: Kinetic Modeling and Numerical Simulation Approach	3
A Hybrid Embedded Discrete Fracture Model and Dual-Porosity, Dual-Permeability Workflow for Hierarchical Treatment of Fractures in Practical Field Studies	3
Pressure Transient Analysis for Water Injection Wells with Waterflooding-Induced Nonsimultaneously Closed Multistorage Fractures: Semianalytical Model and Case Study	3

Improving Alkali Polymer Flooding Economics by Capitalizing on Polymer Solution Property Evolution at High pH	3
Long-Term Microbial DNA-Based Monitoring of the Mature Sarukawa Oil Field in Japan	3
Artificial Intelligence Coreflooding Simulator for Special Core Data Analysis	3
Azimuthal Investigation of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir	3
Thermal Magnetic Properties Variation of Rock During In-Situ Combustion Process	3
Fault Identification for the Purposes of Evaluating the Risk of Induced Seismicity: A Novel Application of the Flowback DFIT	3
Using the Flowing Material Balance Model to Determine Which Wells Out of a Group of Wells belong to the Same Common Pool	3
Well Interference and Fracture Geometry Investigation Using Production and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data in an Unconventional Reservoir	3
RTA-Assisted Numerical History-Matching Workflow	3
Application of Multilateral Wells for Production and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Case Studies from Canada	2
A Bayesian Framework for Addressing the Uncertainty in Production Forecasts of Tight-Oil Reservoirs Using a Physics-Based Two-Phase Flow Model	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
The Role of Diffusion on Reservoir Performance in Underground Hydrogen Storage	2
A Comprehensive Review on the Capillary Desaturation Curves for Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs	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
A Systematic Experimental Study to Understand the Performance and Efficiency of Gas Injection in Carbonate Reservoirs	2
Buoyant Flow of H2 Vs. CO2 in Storage Aquifers: Implications to Geological Screening	2
Improving Prediction of Fracture Distribution Using Microseismic Data and Acoustic Logging Measurements	2
Fault Rock Property Prediction on Jurassic Clastics of the Barents Sea, Norway	2
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	2
Water Saturation Modeling Challenges in Oil-Down-to Wells: An Example from a Multidarcy North Sea Reservoir	2
Azimuthal Prestack Seismic Anisotropic Inversion on a Deep and Tight Carbonate Reservoir From the North Potwar Basin of Pakistan	2
New Insights into Hybrid Low-Salinity Polymer Flooding through a Coupled Geochemical-Based Modeling Approach	2
Pilot Test of Surfactant/Polymer Flood with Mixtures of Anionic/Cationic Surfactants for High-Temperature Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoir	2
Selection of a Dimensionality Reduction Method: An Application to Deal with High-Dimensional Geostatistical Realizations in Oil Reservoirs	2
Modeling Water Injectivity Tests under Multiple Rate Schedule: An Approximate Solution	2
The Effect of Compressibility and Outer Boundaries on Incipient Viscous Fingering	2
Automatic Multiwell Assessment of Flow-Related Petrophysical Properties of Tight-Gas Sandstones Based on the Physics of Mud-Filtrate Invasion	2
Polysulphate: A New Enhanced Oil Recovery Additive to Maximize the Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs at High Temperature	2
Buildup Evaluation of a Tight Overpressured Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoir with the Use of a Semi-Empirical Model	2
Improvement to Gravity Drainage Recovery by Repressurization as a Criterion to Screen and Rank Naturally Fractured Reservoirs for Gas Injection	2
Catanionic Surfactants for Improving Oil Production in Carbonate Reservoirs	2
Data-Driven Reduced-Order Models for Volve Field Using Reservoir Simulation and Physics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques	2
Review of Offshore Chemical Flooding Field Applications and Key Lessons Learned	2