A lecturer from the University of Basrah published a paper indexed at Scopus/Web of Science database with cooperation two scientists from Basrah Oil Company.

Aymen A. Lazim , Maher J. Ismail , Maher M. Mahdi published a paper entitled

High resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Mishrif Formation
(Cenomanian-Early Turonian) at zubair oilfield (al-rafdhiah dome),
southern Iraq

 in the Petroleum Research which is indexed in Scopus/Web of Science database, Q1. the study aims to addresses the relationship between the sedimentology of the Mishrif Formation and the sequence stratigraphy in the Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq at the Al-Rafdhiah dome, describing the details of the sedimentological setting during the deposition of the Mishrif Formation. Transgression and regression events are correlated between this study and the previous studies.
This study aims to divide the formation into fourth-order sequence stratigraphic sequences in the Zubair oilfield by using thin sections and wireline log data.