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Oil and Gas Production Techniques

Oil and Gas Production Techniques is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of various diagnostic techniques, including machine learning, fault diagnosis, and predictive maintenance, in oil wells. The topics covered include artificial lift systems, electric submersible pumps, sucker rod pumping, progressing cavity pumps, and energy-saving strategies.

  • Fault Diagnosis
  • Artificial Lift Systems
  • Electric Submersible Pumps
  • Sucker Rod Pumping
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Machine Learning
  • Downhole Conditions
  • Progressing Cavity Pump
  • Energy Saving
  • Data Analytics
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oil and Gas Production Techniques

Which countries lead Oil and Gas Production Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 793 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 793 works
  3. 3 Russia 460 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 386 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 193 works
  6. 6 India 193 works
  7. 7 Brazil 168 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 163 works
  9. 9 United Arab Emirates 160 works
  10. 10 Norway 159 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 43.8%United States: 16.7%Russia: 9.7%Indonesia: 8.1%6 others listed: 21.7%44%largest
China2,084 · 43.8%United States793 · 16.7%Russia460 · 9.7%Indonesia386 · 8.1%6 others listed1,034 · 21.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Oil and Gas Production Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, China National Petroleum Corporation (China) publishes the most Oil and Gas Production Techniques research, followed by Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) and China University of Petroleum, Beijing.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China 226 works
  2. 2 Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)Saudi Arabia 176 works
  3. 3 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 149 works
  4. 4 Abu Dhabi National Oil (United Arab Emirates)United Arab Emirates 135 works
  5. 5 Daqing Oilfield General HospitalChina 118 works
  6. 6 Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 100 works
  7. 7 Petronas (Malaysia)Malaysia 94 works
  8. 8 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 75 works
  9. 9 Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia 67 works
  10. 10 Halliburton (United Kingdom)United Kingdom 63 works

Who are the leading researchers in Oil and Gas Production Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oil and Gas Production Techniques include Kai You Wang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Oil and Gas Production Techniques?

The most cited paper in Oil and Gas Production Techniques is "Mechanics Of Hydraulic Fracturing" (M. King Hubbert, David G. Willis, 1957), with 2,132 citations. Next come "A Rapid Method of Predicting Width and Extent of Hydraulically Induced Fractures" (1,292) and "A Survey of Deep Active Learning" (1,096).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mechanics Of Hydraulic Fracturing M. King Hubbert, David G. Willis · Transactions of the AIME Dec 1957 2,132
2 A Rapid Method of Predicting Width and Extent of Hydraulically Induced Fractures J. Geertsma, F. De Klerk · Journal of Petroleum Technology Dec 1969 1,292
3 A Survey of Deep Active Learning Pengzhen Ren, Yun Xiao, Xiaojun Chang et al. · ACM Computing Surveys 8 Oct 2021 1,096
4 Condition monitoring and fault detection of wind turbines and related algorithms: A review Zafar Hameed, Youngsun Hong, Young-in Cho et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 21 Aug 2007 999
5 Time series forecasting of petroleum production using deep LSTM recurrent networks Alaa Sagheer, Mostafa Kotb · Neurocomputing 5 Oct 2018 971
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Oil and Gas Production Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Oil and Gas Production Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Houston (United States), Chengdu (China) and Daqing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Arbroath, Road Town and Cepu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 630 works
  2. 2 HoustonUnited States 252 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 182 works
  4. 4 DaqingChina 157 works
  5. 5 Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates 151 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 135 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 115 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 112 works
  9. 9 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 110 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 103 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ArbroathGB · 62.7 works381×
  2. Road TownVG · 61.9 works344×
  3. Cepu26.9 works205×
  4. San RamonUS · 20.5 works114×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oil and Gas Production Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oil and Gas Production Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China University of Petroleum, East China and Jiangsu University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 27.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Huazhong University …Jiangsu UniversityChina University of …China University of …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 68.518.4%66.9×149 +62.3%
2China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 67.522.0%28.2×75 +36.4%
3Jiangsu UniversityChina 64.837.2%5.9×27 +121.3%
4Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.044.1%1.6×17 +96.1%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.935.9%2.6×26 +95.5%
6Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 61.614.6%54.9×100 +59.0%
7Yanshan UniversityChina 58.730.9%8.3×17 +40.3%
8Yangzhou UniversityChina 56.639.1%4.1×13 +260.8%
9Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 56.513.4%21.2×46 +112.0%
10King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 55.416.1%12.2×24 -16.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Oil and Gas Production Techniques, country by country

Is Oil and Gas Production Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Oil and Gas Production Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Oil and Gas Production Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Oil and Gas Production Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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