A Generalized Well-Management Scheme for Reservoir Simulation

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 116-120

  Fang, W Y ^a   Lo, K K ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULICS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

BLACK OIL SIMULATOR; GAS HANDLING LIMITS; LIFT GAS ALLOCATION; SEPARABLE PROGRAMMING; SURFACE FACILITY CONSTRAINTS;

GAS LIFTS;

EID: 0030134534     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/29124-PA     Document Type: Article

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