W.W. Owens

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

W.W. Owens is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, W.W. Owens has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ocean Engineering, 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in W.W. Owens's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (12 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (12 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (11 papers). W.W. Owens is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (12 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (12 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (11 papers). W.W. Owens collaborates with scholars based in United States. W.W. Owens's co-authors include F.O. Jones, David R. Parrish, T.M. Geffen, R.A. Morse and F.F. Craig and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Petroleum Technology, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal and Transactions of the AIME.

In The Last Decade

W.W. Owens

17 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Laboratory Study of Low-Permeability Gas Sands

1980 426 citations F.O. Jones, W.W. Owens Journal of Petroleum Technology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W.W. Owens United States	12	1.1k	792	769	259	149	17	1.4k
M. M. Honarpour United States	20	1.2k 1.0×	940 1.2×	810 1.1×	298 1.2×	124 0.8×	53	1.5k
J. O. Amaefule United States	12	959 0.9×	868 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	129 0.5×	258 1.7×	17	1.4k
J.R. Kyte United States	8	710 0.6×	534 0.7×	381 0.5×	179 0.7×	58 0.4×	10	839
A. T. Watson United States	19	728 0.7×	613 0.8×	365 0.5×	212 0.8×	31 0.2×	35	938
Jacques Hagoort Netherlands	20	1.0k 0.9×	884 1.1×	332 0.4×	269 1.0×	71 0.5×	45	1.2k
F.B. Thomas Canada	23	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	724 0.9×	110 0.4×	283 1.9×	71	1.6k
Jairam Kamath Netherlands	20	950 0.8×	866 1.1×	490 0.6×	286 1.1×	58 0.4×	59	1.2k
P. E. Øren Norway	15	1.3k 1.2×	700 0.9×	987 1.3×	396 1.5×	62 0.4×	27	1.6k
Barry Rubin United Kingdom	12	829 0.7×	816 1.0×	462 0.6×	162 0.6×	73 0.5×	21	1.2k
G. Hamon France	21	1.1k 1.0×	789 1.0×	818 1.1×	216 0.8×	146 1.0×	57	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W.W. Owens

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All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1982). Steady-State Measurements of Relative Permeability for Polymer/Oil Systems. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. 22(1). 79–86. 82 indexed citations

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Jones, F.O. & W.W. Owens. (1980). A Laboratory Study of Low-Permeability Gas Sands. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 32(9). 1631–1640. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1977). Evaluation of Waterflood Residual Oil Saturations Using Log-Inject-Log Procedures. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 29(2). 178–186. 5 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1976). Relative Permeability Studies of Gas-Water Flow Following Solvent Injection in Carbonate Rocks. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. 16(1). 23–30. 45 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1973). The Use of Special Coring and Logging Procedures for Defining Reservoir Residual Oil Saturations. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 25(7). 841–850. 11 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1972). A Laboratory Evaluation of the Wettability of Fifty Oil-Producing Reservoirs. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. 12(6). 531–540. 370 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1972). A New Approach for Low-Resistivity Sand Log Analysis. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 24(11). 1302–1306. 19 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1971). The Effect of Rock Wettability on Oil-Water Relative Permeability Relationships. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 23(7). 873–878. 180 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1970). Sandstone and Carbonate Two- and Three-Phase Relative Permeability Characteristics. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. 10(1). 75–84. 49 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1966). Waterflood Pressure Pulsing for Fractured Reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 18(6). 745–752. 21 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1964). Time-Lapse Logging, A Valuable Reservoir Evaluation Technique. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 16(1). 15–19. 2 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1963). The Application Of Mapping And Statistical Methods For Defining Reservoir Heterogeneity. 1 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1961). A Scale-Model Study of Bottom-Water Drives. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 13(1). 90–98. 26 indexed citations

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Craig, F.F. & W.W. Owens. (1960). Miscible Slug Flooding - A Review. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 12(4). 11–15. 4 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1958). A Laboratory Study of Laminar and Turbulent Flow in Heterogeneous Porosity Limestones. Transactions of the AIME. 213(1). 121–126. 1 indexed citations

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Owens, W.W., et al.. (1956). An Evaluation of a Gas Drive Method for Determining Relative Permeability Relationships. Transactions of the AIME. 207(1). 275–280. 18 indexed citations

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Geffen, T.M., W.W. Owens, David R. Parrish, & R.A. Morse. (1951). Experimental Investigation of Factors Affecting Laboratory Relative Permeability Measurements. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 3(4). 99–110. 98 indexed citations

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