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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Stability and Behavior in Carbonate Cores for New Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Polymers at Elevated Temperatures in Hard Saline Brines	41
Performance Comparison of Novel Chemical Agents for Mitigating Water-Blocking Problem in Tight Gas Sandstones	36
Measurement and Modeling of Minimum Miscibility Pressure: A State-of-the-Art Review	25
Fracture-Hit Detection Using LF-DAS Signals Measured during Multifracture Propagation in Unconventional Reservoirs	21
Incorporation of Physics into Machine Learning for Production Prediction from Unconventional Reservoirs: A Brief Review of the Gray-Box Approach	19
Impact of Geological Variables in Controlling Oil-Reservoir Performance: An Insight from a Machine-Learning Technique	19
Machine-Learning-Assisted Closed-Loop Reservoir Management Using Echo State Network for Mature Fields under Waterflood	18
Impact of Surfactants on Hydrocarbon Mobility in Shales	17
Wettability State and Phase Distributions During Steam Injection with and without Chemical Additives: An Experimental Analysis Using Visual Micromodels	15
Unconventional Reservoir Hydrocarbon-Gas Foam Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Pilot: Design, Implementation, and Performance Analysis	15
Experimental Study and Numerical Modeling of Boron Transport in Reservoir and Its Influence on Seawater-Breakthrough Calculation	14
Application of Interpretable Machine-Learning Workflows To Identify Brittle, Fracturable, and Producible Rock in Horizontal Wells Using Surface Drilling Data	14
Wettability Quantification in Mixed-Wet Rocks Using a New NMR-Based Method	14
Simulating the Behavior of Reservoirs with Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks	13
Support Vector Regression for Petroleum Reservoir Production Forecast Considering Geostatistical Realizations	13
Experimental Study of the Effect of Solvent Addition and Temperature on Two-Phase Bitumen/Water Relative Permeability	12
3D Printing for Experiments in Petrophysics, Rock Physics, and Rock Mechanics: A Review	11
Deep-Learning-Based Vuggy Facies Identification from Borehole Images	11
In-Situ Generation and Propagation of Well-Defined Nanocellulose Strengthened Gaseous and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Foams in Tight Formation Fractures for Conformance Control	11
Integration of NMR and Conventional Logs for Vuggy Facies Classification in the Arbuckle Formation: A Machine Learning Approach	11
Well Placement and Control Optimization of Horizontal Steamflooding Wells Using Derivative-Free Algorithms	11
Experimental Analysis of Alkali-Brine-Alcohol Phase Behavior with High Acid Number Crude Oil	10
Drawdown-Management and Fracture-Spacing Optimization in the Meramec Formation: Numerical- and Economics-Based Approach	9
Static Adsorption Evaluation for Anionic-Nonionic Surfactant Mixture on Sandstone in the Presence of Crude Oil at High Reservoir Temperature Condition	9
Determining Infracambrian Hormuz Salt and Basement Structures Offshore Abu Dhabi by Joint Analysis of Gravity and Magnetic Anomalies	9

Preliminary Screening and Formulation of New Generation Nanoparticles for Stable Pickering Emulsion in Cold and Hot Heavy-Oil Recovery	9
Joint Interpretation of Electrical Resistivity andT2 NMR Measurements To Estimate Wettability and Water Saturation	9
Comparison of the Methods for Analyzing Rate- and Pressure-Transient Data from Multistage Hydraulically Fractured Unconventional Gas Reservoirs	9
The Influence of Development Target Depletion on Stress Evolution and Infill Drilling of Upside Target in the Permian Basin	9
Characterizing Anisotropic Fracture Toughness of Shale Using Nanoindentation	8
Demonstration and Mitigation of Spatial Sampling Bias for Machine-Learning Predictions	8
Optimization of Polymer Flooding in a Heterogeneous Reservoir Considering Geological and History Matching Uncertainties	8
Classifying Lithofacies from Textural Features in Whole Core CT-Scan Images	8
Studying Phase Behavior of Oil/Natural-Gas Systems for Designing Gas-Injection Operations: A Montney Case Study	8
Decameter-Scale Flow-Unit Classification in Brazilian Presalt Carbonates	8
An Extended Unified Viscoelastic Model for Predicting Polymer Apparent Viscosity at Different Shear Rates	8
A Multisolution Optimization Framework for Well Placement and Control	8
Assessing the Efficiency of Saturating Shale Oil Cores and Evaluating Hydrocarbon Gas Huff ‘n’ Puff Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance	7
Polymer Transport in Low-Permeability Carbonate Rocks	7
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	7
Predicting Reservoir Fluid Properties from Advanced Mud Gas Data	7
Condensing Solvent Processes: In Search of the Production Function	7
Permeability Variation and Its Impact on Oil Recovery from Unconsolidated Sand Heavy-Oil Reservoirs during Steamflooding Process	7
Alkali/Polymer Flooding of High-TAN Oil: Live Oil and Dead Oil Evaluation	7
Optimizing the Huff ‘n’ Puff Gas Injection Performance in Shale Reservoirs Considering the Uncertainty: A Duvernay Shale Example	7
Production Forecasting with the Interwell Interference by Integrating Graph Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network	7
Comparison of Various Particle-Size Distribution-Measurement Methods	6
Analysis of Production Data from Communicating Multifractured Horizontal Wells Using the Dynamic Drainage Area Concept	6
Electromagnetic Heating for Heavy-Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Experimental, Numerical, and Pilot Studies	6
Impacts of Competitive Water Adsorption of Kerogen and Clay Minerals on Wettability of Organic-Rich Mudrocks	6
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	6
Multimineral Modeling and Estimation of Brittleness Index of Shaly Sandstone in Upper Assam and Mizoram Areas, India	6
Pilot Test of Surfactant/Polymer Flood with Mixtures of Anionic/Cationic Surfactants for High-Temperature Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoir	6
Feasibility Study of Dual-Function Chemical in Reducing Surfactant Adsorption and Interfacial Tension for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Application	6
Impact of Formation Dilation–Recompaction on Cyclic Steam Stimulation	5
Impact of Digitalization on the Way of Working and Skills Development in Hydrocarbon Production Forecasting and Project Decision Analysis	5
Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	5
Comparison of Intercept Methods for Correction of Steady-State Relative Permeability Experiments for Capillary End Effects	5
Production Forecasting: Optimistic and Overconfident—Over and Over Again	5
New Insights on Characteristics of the Near-Wellbore Fractured Zone from Simulated High-Resolution Distributed Strain Sensing Data	5
Well Interference and Fracture Geometry Investigation Using Production and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data in an Unconventional Reservoir	5
Field Application of Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer Flood with Novel Mixtures of Anionic/Cationic Surfactants for High-Temperature and High-Water-Cut Mature Sandstone Reservoir	5
Multifrequency Analytical Forward Modeling of Dielectric Permittivity Dispersion in Mixed-Wet Sedimentary Rocks	5
A Deep Learning Framework Using Graph Convolutional Networks for Adaptive Correction of Interwell Connectivity and Gated Recurrent Unit for Performance Prediction	5
Optimization of Recovery by Huff ‘n’ Puff Gas Injection in Shale-Oil Reservoirs Using the Climbing-Swarm Derivative-Free Algorithm	5
Application of Multilateral Wells for Production and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Case Studies from Canada	5
Probabilistic Decline Curve Analysis in the Permian Basin using Bayesian and Approximate Bayesian Inference	5
Estimating Reservoir Permeability and Fracture Surface Area Using the Flowback DFIT (DFIT-FBA)	5
Analyzing the Impacts of Meshing and Grid Alignment in Dual-Porosity Dual-Permeability Upscaling	5
Using Rate Transient Analysis and Bayesian Algorithms for Reservoir Characterization in Unconventional Gas Wells during Linear Flow	4
Pseudorelative Permeabilities for Simulation of Unstable Viscous Oil Displacement	4
Rheology and Injectivity Studies on Scleroglucan Biopolymer for Carbonates under Harsh Conditions	4
Experimental and Numerical Study of Strategies for Improvement of Cyclic Solvent Injection in Thin Heavy-Oil Reservoirs	4
Application of Stochastic Analysis in Project Economics	4
Investigation of Strain Fields Generated by Hydraulic Fracturing with Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Fiber Optic Response	4

A Two-Phase Flow Model for Reserves Estimation in Tight-Oil and Gas-Condensate Reservoirs Using Scaling Principles	4
Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Modeling of Seismicity in the Azle Area (North Texas)	4
Effects of Imbibition and Compaction during Well Shut-In on Ultimate Shale Oil Recovery: A Numerical Study	4
Mangala Polymer Flood Performance: Connecting the Dots Through In-Situ Polymer Sampling	4
An Investigation of Mechanistic Foam Modeling for Optimum Field Development of CO2 Foam EOR Application	4
Methods to Enhance Success of Field Application of In-Situ Combustion for Heavy Oil Recovery	4
Estimation of Effective Permeability, Fracture Spacing, Drainage Area, and Incremental Production from Field Data in Gas Shales with Nonnegligible Sorption	4
Interpretation of Hydraulic Fractures Based on Microseismic Response in the Marcellus Shale, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA: Implications for Shale Gas Production	4
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	4
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	4
Improving Alkali Polymer Flooding Economics by Capitalizing on Polymer Solution Property Evolution at High pH	3
Quantifying Total Apparent Hydraulic Fracture Conductivity and Its Significant Degradation from Systematic Bottomhole Pressure Measurements in Permian Wells	3
Integrated Fracture Characterization of Thamama Reservoirs in Abu Dhabi Oil Field, United Arab Emirates	3
Pressure-Transient Analysis for Waterflooding with the Influence of Dynamic Induced Fracture in Tight Reservoir: Model and Case Studies	3
Laboratory Studies for Design of a Foam Pilot for Reducing Gas Channeling from Gas Cap in Production Well in Messoyakhskoye Field	3
Oil Recovery by Low-Rate Waterflooding in Low-Permeability Water-Wet Sandstone Cores	3
Effects of Overpressure on Mechanical Properties of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs through Novel Use of a Sonic Overpressure Indicator	3
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	3
Artificial Intelligence Coreflooding Simulator for Special Core Data Analysis	3
Simulating Oil and Water Production in Reservoirs with Generative Deep Learning	3
Bayesian Deep Decline Curve Analysis: A New Approach for Well Oil Production Modeling and Forecasting	3
Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements	3
Decoding the Impact of Injection-Induced Fractures on the Sweep Efficiency of a Mature Polymer Flood through Pressure Falloff Analysis	3
Hydrocarbon Field (Re-)Development as Markov Decision Process	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 2: Parallel Perfo	3
An Integrated Method to Mitigate Hazards from Hydraulic Fracturing–Induced Earthquakes in the Duvernay Shale Play	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
Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation	3
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	3
Instow: A Full-Field, Multipatterned Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flood—Analyses and Comparison of Phases 1 and 2	3
New Insights into the Understanding of In-Situ Combustion: Important Considerations When Modeling the Process	3
Physics-Driven Machine-Learning-Based Borehole Sonic Interpretation in the Presence of Casing and Drillpipe	3
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fine Migration During Low-Salinity Water Flooding: Effect of Brine Composition on Interparticle Forces	3
The Influence of Rock Composition and pH on Reservoir Wettability for Low-Salinity Water-CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications in Brazilian Reservoirs	3
Application and Exploration of Early In-Situ Combustion Huff-and-Puff Technology in a Deep Undisturbed Reservoir with Extra Heavy Oil	2
A Method for Determination of Rock Fabric Number from Well Logs in Unconventional Tight Oil Carbonates	2
A Comprehensive Review on the Capillary Desaturation Curves for Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs	2
New Insights into Surfactant Adsorption Estimation in Carbonates under Harsh Conditions Using Surface Complexation Modeling	2
Pressure Transient Analysis for Water Injection Wells with Waterflooding-Induced Nonsimultaneously Closed Multistorage Fractures: Semianalytical Model and Case Study	2
Perturbative-Integro-Differential Solution for the Nonlinear Hydraulic Diffusivity Equation for Infinite-Acting-Oil Flow in a Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoir	2
Building an EPA Class VI Permit Application	2
Analysis of Multiple Flow/Buildup Tests Including a 5-Year Buildup: Case Study of an Australian Shale Gas Well	2
A Systematical Review of the Largest Polymer Flood Project in the World: From Laboratory to Pilots and Field Application	2
Multifrequency Inversion of Complex Electrical Conductivity Measurements for Simultaneous Assessment of Wettability, Porosity, and Water Saturation	2
Analysis of Vertical Permeability and Its Influence on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage in a Carbonate Reservoir	2
Fast and Accurate Core Analysis by the Full-Immersion Pressure-Pulse Decay: Part 2—Practice and Demonstration	2
Evaluation of Effects of Waterflooding-Induced Bilayer Fractures on Tight Reservoir Using Pressure-Transient Analysis Method	2
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	2
Selection of a Dimensionality Reduction Method: An Application to Deal with High-Dimensional Geostatistical Realizations in Oil Reservoirs	2
Numerical Analysis of the Effects of Apparent-Permeability Modeling and Secondary-Fracture Distribution for Hydraulic-Fractured Shale-Gas Production Analysis	2
The Effect of Nano Heavy Metal Oxide Particles on the Wettability of Carbonate Reservoir Rock	2
Broad Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy Characterization of Organic Porosity Evolution During Thermal Treatment of Bazhenov Shale Sample	2
Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Porous Media Zeta Potential in Mineral Particle Mixtures	2
Contribution of Tidal Analysis to Reservoir Monitoring: A Field Case Study in a Fractured Reservoir Offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE	2
Application of Tracer-Based Workflow for Calibrating Reservoir Heterogeneity	2
Lithofacies and Diagenetic Controls on Tight Silty and Sandy Upper Triassic Reservoirs of the Heshui Oil Field (Ordos Basin, North China)	2
A New Coupled Model for Permeability-Impairment Prediction Because of Mineral Scale Deposition in Water-Injection Wells	2
Progress Toward Pilot-Scale Simulation of In-Situ Combustion Incorporating Geomechanics	2
Water Saturation Modeling Challenges in Oil-Down-to Wells: An Example from a Multidarcy North Sea Reservoir	2
A Practical and Innovative Workflow to Support the Numerical Simulation of CO2 Storage in Large Field-Scale Models	2
Mechanics of SAGD Efficiency Improvement Using Combination of Chemicals: An Experimental Analysis through 2D Visual Models	2
An Empirical Analog Benchmarking Workflow to Improve Hydrocarbon Recovery	2
Semianalytical Model for Monitoring Fracture Liquid-Loading in Vertical Fractured Gas Wells	2
Effect of Total Acid Number and Recovery Mode on Low-Salinity Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonates	2
Data Assimilation of Production and Multiple 4D Seismic Acquisitions in a Deepwater Field Using Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation	2