Swept volume calculations and ranking of geostatistical reservoir models using streamline simulation

SPE/AAPG Western Regional Meetings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 301-313

  Idrobo, Eduardo A ^a   Choudhary, Manoj K ^a   Datta Gupta, A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OIL WELLS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; PRODUCTION;

FLOW FIELD; GEOSTATISTICAL RESERVOIR MODELS; STREAMLINE SIMULATION; SWEPT VOLUME;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0012053849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/62557-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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