OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Stability and Behavior in Carbonate Cores for New Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Polymers at Elevated Temperatures in Hard Saline Brines	42
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	26
Fracture-Hit Detection Using LF-DAS Signals Measured during Multifracture Propagation in Unconventional Reservoirs	22
Impact of Geological Variables in Controlling Oil-Reservoir Performance: An Insight from a Machine-Learning Technique	20
Incorporation of Physics into Machine Learning for Production Prediction from Unconventional Reservoirs: A Brief Review of the Gray-Box Approach	19
Machine-Learning-Assisted Closed-Loop Reservoir Management Using Echo State Network for Mature Fields under Waterflood	19
Impact of Surfactants on Hydrocarbon Mobility in Shales	17
Unconventional Reservoir Hydrocarbon-Gas Foam Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Pilot: Design, Implementation, and Performance Analysis	16
Wettability State and Phase Distributions During Steam Injection with and without Chemical Additives: An Experimental Analysis Using Visual Micromodels	14
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
Support Vector Regression for Petroleum Reservoir Production Forecast Considering Geostatistical Realizations	13
Simulating the Behavior of Reservoirs with Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks	13
Experimental Study of the Effect of Solvent Addition and Temperature on Two-Phase Bitumen/Water Relative Permeability	12
In-Situ Generation and Propagation of Well-Defined Nanocellulose Strengthened Gaseous and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Foams in Tight Formation Fractures for Conformance Control	12
Well Placement and Control Optimization of Horizontal Steamflooding Wells Using Derivative-Free Algorithms	12
Static Adsorption Evaluation for Anionic-Nonionic Surfactant Mixture on Sandstone in the Presence of Crude Oil at High Reservoir Temperature Condition	11
Deep-Learning-Based Vuggy Facies Identification from Borehole Images	11
Characterizing Anisotropic Fracture Toughness of Shale Using Nanoindentation	11
3D Printing for Experiments in Petrophysics, Rock Physics, and Rock Mechanics: A Review	11
Integration of NMR and Conventional Logs for Vuggy Facies Classification in the Arbuckle Formation: A Machine Learning Approach	11
Experimental Analysis of Alkali-Brine-Alcohol Phase Behavior with High Acid Number Crude Oil	11
The Influence of Development Target Depletion on Stress Evolution and Infill Drilling of Upside Target in the Permian Basin	10

Classifying Lithofacies from Textural Features in Whole Core CT-Scan Images	9
Drawdown-Management and Fracture-Spacing Optimization in the Meramec Formation: Numerical- and Economics-Based Approach	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
Alkali/Polymer Flooding of High-TAN Oil: Live Oil and Dead Oil Evaluation	8
Permeability Variation and Its Impact on Oil Recovery from Unconsolidated Sand Heavy-Oil Reservoirs during Steamflooding Process	8
Decameter-Scale Flow-Unit Classification in Brazilian Presalt Carbonates	8
Demonstration and Mitigation of Spatial Sampling Bias for Machine-Learning Predictions	8
A Multisolution Optimization Framework for Well Placement and Control	8
An Extended Unified Viscoelastic Model for Predicting Polymer Apparent Viscosity at Different Shear Rates	8
Studying Phase Behavior of Oil/Natural-Gas Systems for Designing Gas-Injection Operations: A Montney Case Study	8
Optimization of Polymer Flooding in a Heterogeneous Reservoir Considering Geological and History Matching Uncertainties	8
Assessing the Efficiency of Saturating Shale Oil Cores and Evaluating Hydrocarbon Gas Huff ‘n’ Puff Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance	7
Condensing Solvent Processes: In Search of the Production Function	7
Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Selection Using Field-Flow Fractionation	7
Predicting Reservoir Fluid Properties from Advanced Mud Gas Data	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
Polymer Transport in Low-Permeability Carbonate Rocks	7
Impacts of Competitive Water Adsorption of Kerogen and Clay Minerals on Wettability of Organic-Rich Mudrocks	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
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
Electromagnetic Heating for Heavy-Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Experimental, Numerical, and Pilot Studies	6
Field Application of Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer Flood with Novel Mixtures of Anionic/Cationic Surfactants for High-Temperature and High-Water-Cut Mature Sandstone Reservoir	6
Robust and Efficient Identification of Hydraulic Flow Units using Differential Evolution Optimization and Two-Stage Clustering Techniques	6
Impact of Digitalization on the Way of Working and Skills Development in Hydrocarbon Production Forecasting and Project Decision Analysis	5
Optimization of Water-Alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-Learning-Assisted Workflow	5
Multifrequency Analytical Forward Modeling of Dielectric Permittivity Dispersion in Mixed-Wet Sedimentary Rocks	5
Estimating Reservoir Permeability and Fracture Surface Area Using the Flowback DFIT (DFIT-FBA)	5
Optimization of Recovery by Huff ‘n’ Puff Gas Injection in Shale-Oil Reservoirs Using the Climbing-Swarm Derivative-Free Algorithm	5
Well Interference and Fracture Geometry Investigation Using Production and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data in an Unconventional Reservoir	5
Probabilistic Decline Curve Analysis in the Permian Basin using Bayesian and Approximate Bayesian Inference	5
Water Imbibition and Oil Recovery in Shale: Dynamics and Mechanisms Using Integrated Centimeter-to-Nanometer-Scale Imaging	5
Methods to Enhance Success of Field Application of In-Situ Combustion for Heavy Oil Recovery	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
Application of Multilateral Wells for Production and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Case Studies from Canada	5
In-Situ Combustion: Myths and Facts	5
Comparison of Intercept Methods for Correction of Steady-State Relative Permeability Experiments for Capillary End Effects	5
A Deep Learning Framework Using Graph Convolutional Networks for Adaptive Correction of Interwell Connectivity and Gated Recurrent Unit for Performance Prediction	5
Analyzing the Impacts of Meshing and Grid Alignment in Dual-Porosity Dual-Permeability Upscaling	5
Impact of Formation Dilation–Recompaction on Cyclic Steam Stimulation	5