OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Petroleum Geoscience 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
New insights into the late Palaeozoic–early Mesozoic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia	57
The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK	18
Gravity imaging of sub-Zechstein geological structures in the UK sector of the North Sea using the gravity layer stripping method	17
Timing of hydrocarbon charge in the Axial Zone of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia	14
Investigating the analytical relationship between pore geometry and other pore space properties in carbonate rocks	12
Cretaceous petroleum system elements in the Komombo Basin, Egypt	10
A new approach to investigate the effect of burial depth and clay content on fault permeabilities applied at the Njord Field	10
Seismic stratigraphy of the southern Eratosthenes High, eastern Mediterranean Sea: growth, demise and deformation of three superposed carbonate platforms (Mesozoic–Cenozoic)	9
High-resolution synthetic seismic modelling: elucidating facies heterogeneity in carbonate ramp systems	9
Impact of modelling decisions and rock typing schemes on oil in place estimates in a giant carbonate reservoir in the Middle East	9
Digitally enabled geoscience workflows: unlocking the power of our data – an introduction to the thematic collection	9
TT Transform attributes enhancing seismic interpretation: a case of thin turbidites reservoirs in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	8
Predicting fluid flow in reservoirs: analysis of fracture clustering in outcrop analogues	7
Prediction of reservoir properties using inverse rock physics modelling in the Kanywataba Exploration Area, Albertine Graben	7
Simultaneous well spacing and completion optimization using an automated machine learning approach. A case study of the Marcellus Shale reservoir, northeastern United States	7
Petroleum generation and migration through the Faroe–Shetland Basin – the role of igneous intrusions	7
Investigating the role of differential biotic production on carbonate geometries through stratigraphic forward modelling and sensitivity analysis: the Llucmajor example	6
Characterizing along- and across-fault fluid-flow properties for assessing flow rates and overburden fluid migration along faults: a case study from the North Sea	6
A quantitative study of the microstructure of Indian Gondwana shale: a fractal and algebraic topology approach	5
New insights into the structure, geology and hydrocarbon prospectivity along the central-northern Corona Ridge, Faroe–Shetland Basin	5
Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs	5
Look-ahead-while-drilling resistivity tools and their role in drilling sedimentary basins containing complex volcanic geology	5
Stress state in parts of NE India: borehole collapse modelling with sensitivity analysis	5
Seismic stratigraphy of the Cretaceous post-rift sedimentary interval in the Punta del Este Basin (offshore Uruguay) and its implications for deep-water reservoirs	5
The influence of sedimentary facies, mineralogy, and diagenesis on reservoir properties of the coal-bearing Upper Carboniferous of NW Germany	5

Natural fractures at depth in shale reservoirs: new insights from the southern Sichuan Basin marine shales	5
Synthetic seismic-stratigraphic interpretation from a sedimentological forward model in a pre-salt field in the Santos Basin	4
Shear-wave velocity estimation based on rock physics modelling of a limestone gas reservoir in the Pannonian Basin	4
Editorial comments from the incoming Chief Editor, January 2022	4
Rapid screening and probabilistic estimation of the potential for CO ₂ -EOR and associated geological CO ₂ storage in Colombian pe	4
Challenges for seismic velocity modelling of rafts and impacts for pre-salt depth estimations	4
Utilization of chemostratigraphy to the subregional scale correlation of Permo–Carboniferous sediments, eastern Saudi Arabia	4
Fracturability of shale based on rock brittleness and natural fracture tensile reactivation	4
Stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Asmari Formation in selected locations in the Persian Gulf	4
The impact of igneous intrusions on sedimentary host rocks: insights from field outcrop and subsurface data	3
Pore structure heterogeneity of Chang 7 shale in the Ordos Basin: insights from NMR and multifractal theory	3
Structural characterization and across-fault seal assessment of the Aurora CO ₂ storage site, northern North Sea	3
Hydrocarbon generation and retention potential of Chang 7 organic-rich shale in the Ordos Basin, China	3
Comparative study of CNN-based and conventional fault interpretation methods: a study of the deep-water Orange Basin, South Africa	3
Comparison of shale depth functions in contrasting offshore basins and sealing behaviour for CH ₄ and CO ₂ containment systems	3
Petroleum source-rock characterization and the depositional environment of Kimmeridgian–Tithonian sequences, Jaisalmer Basin, western Rajasthan, India	3
The design of an open-source carbonate reservoir model	3
Source-rock and petrophysical evaluation of the Late Cretaceous Haymana Formation, Haymana Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey	3
Seismic and petrophysical characterization of the Sequoia Pliocene channel reservoirs: insights into hydrocarbon potential in the West Delta Deep Marine, Egypt	3
Jasmine: the challenges of delivering infill wells in a variably depleted HPHT field	3
Impacts of solid rock components on resistivity-based reserves evaluation in organic-rich mudrocks	3
Interaction between volcanic and non-volcanic systems and its implication for prospectivity in the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic continental margin	3
New insights into the stratigraphic evolution of SW Britain: implications for Triassic salt and hydrocarbon prospectivity	3
The Sahabi ‘B’ Reef complex in the Sirt Basin, Libya: insights into the geometry and depositional architecture of a reservoir	3
The Upper Cretaceous petroleum system of the East Beni Suef Basin, Egypt: an integrated geological and 2D basin modelling approach	3
Geoscience for CO ₂ storage: an introduction to the thematic collection	3
Litho- and biostratigraphy and hydrocarbon source-rock potential of the Jurassic–Paleogene strata in the Kala Chitta Range, northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan	3