2026 Oliver C. Mullins: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	78	602	569	211	192	409	23031

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For developing downhole fluid analysis of oil and gas reservoirs, and elucidating the structure of asphaltenes in crude oils.
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Oliver C. Mullins is affiliated with Schlumberger in the United States, focusing research primarily in the fields of engineering and chemistry. Their work spans numerous subfields including mechanics of materials, ocean engineering, analytical chemistry, mechanical engineering, and nuclear and high energy physics. The main topics addressed in their research encompass hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, NMR spectroscopy and applications, and ion-surface interactions and analysis.

Mullins' publication record includes a significant number of contributions to well-regarded venues. These include Energy & Fuels, where they have published 15 papers, the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition with 6 papers, the International Petroleum Technology Conference with 5 papers, Petrophysics - The SPWLA Journal of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Description with 3 papers, and the SPWLA 63rd Annual Symposium Transactions with 2 papers.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mullins include Soraya S. Betancourt, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Carlos Torres-Verdín, Jesús A. Cañas, and Tarek S. Mohamed.

Recently published papers by Mullins include the following:

Overview of Asphaltene Nanostructures and Thermodynamic Applications (2020, Energy & Fuels)
Yen-Mullins Model Applies to Oilfield Reservoirs (2020, Energy & Fuels)
Structure-Dynamic Function Relations of Asphaltenes (2021, Energy & Fuels)
Structure-Solubility Relationships in Coal, Petroleum, and Immature Source-Rock-Derived Asphaltenes (2020, Energy & Fuels)
Role of Asphaltene Origin in Its Adsorption at Oil-Water Interfaces (2022, Energy & Fuels)

Oliver C. Mullins has been recognized within the scientific community with distinctions including election as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for contributions to downhole fluid analysis of oil and gas reservoirs and elucidating the structure of asphaltenes in crude oils. Mullins was also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

The Modified Yen Model

Oliver C. Mullins

1373
Citations
Advances in Asphaltene Science and the Yen–Mullins Model

Oliver C. Mullins;Hassan Sabbah;Hassan Sabbah;Hassan Sabbah;Joëlle Eyssautier;Andrew E. Pomerantz

1059
Citations
Molecular Size and Structure of Asphaltenes from Various Sources

Henning Groenzin;Oliver C. Mullins

1056
Citations
Unraveling the Molecular Structures of Asphaltenes by Atomic Force Microscopy

Bruno Schuler;Gerhard Meyer;Diego Peña;Oliver C. Mullins

755
Citations
Asphaltene Molecular Size and Structure

Henning Groenzin;Oliver C. Mullins

670
Citations
The asphaltenes.

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485
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Structures and dynamics of asphaltenes

Oliver C. Mullins;Eric Y. Sheu

440
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Molecular size and weight of asphaltene and asphaltene solubility fractions from coals, crude oils and bitumen

Sophie Badre;Cristiane Carla Goncalves;Koyo Norinaga;Gale Gustavson

362
Citations
High-Q ultrasonic determination of the critical nanoaggregate concentration of asphaltenes and the critical micelle concentration of standard surfactants.

Gaëlle Andreatta;Neil Bostrom;Oliver C. Mullins

325
Citations
The overriding chemical principles that define asphaltenes

Eduardo Buenrostro-Gonzalez;Henning Groenzin;Carlos Lira-Galeana;Oliver C. Mullins

299
Citations
Heavy Oil Based Mixtures of Different Origins and Treatments Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy

Bruno Schuler;Shadi Fatayer;Gerhard Meyer;Estrella Rogel

276
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Determination of the Nitrogen Chemical Structures in Petroleum Asphaltenes Using XANES Spectroscopy

Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley;Oliver C. Mullins;Jan Van Elp;Simon J. George

275
Citations
Asphaltenes : fundamentals and applications

Eric Y. Sheu;Oliver C. Mullins

259
Citations
The Colloidal Structure of Crude Oil and the Structure of Oil Reservoirs

Oliver C. Mullins;Soraya S. Betancourt;Myrt E. Cribbs;Francois X. Dubost

247
Citations
Nanoaggregates and Structure−Function Relations in Asphaltenes†

Gaelle Andreatta;Cristiane Carla Goncalves;Gabriel Buffin;Neil Bostrom

233
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Molecular size of asphaltene fractions obtained from residuum hydrotreatment

Louise Buch;Henning Groenzin;Eduardo Buenrostro-Gonzalez;Simon I Andersen

225
Citations
Two-step laser mass spectrometry of asphaltenes.

Andrew E. Pomerantz;Matthew R. Hammond;Amy L. Morrow;Oliver C. Mullins

224
Citations
Contrasting Perspective on Asphaltene Molecular Weight. This Comment vs the Overview of A. A. Herod, K. D. Bartle, and R. Kandiyoti

Oliver C. Mullins;Bruno Martínez-Haya;Alan G. Marshall

219
Citations
Asphaltene Precipitation from Live Crude Oil

Nikhil B. Joshi;Oliver C. Mullins;Abul Jamaluddin;Jefferson Creek

214
Citations
Fremgangsmate og apparat for pavisning av hydrogensulfid i formasjonsfluidprover

Jones Timothy Gareth John;Mullins Oliver Clinton;Jiang Li;Wu Xu

213
Citations
Molecular-weight distributions of coal and petroleum asphaltenes from laser desorption/ionization experiments

Ana R. Hortal;Paola Hurtado;Bruno Martínez-Haya, ,† and;Oliver C. Mullins

203
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Asphaltene Nanoaggregates Studied by Centrifugation

Farshid Mostowfi;Kentaro Indo;Oliver C. Mullins;Richard McFarlane

198
Citations
Diffusivity of asphaltene molecules by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

A. Ballard Andrews;Rodrigo E. Guerra;Oliver C. Mullins;Pabitra N. Sen

197
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