Neural-network model for estimating the PVT properties of Middle East crude oils

In Situ

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 367-394

  Gharbi, Ridha B ^a   Elsharkawy, Adel M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUBBLEPOINT PRESSURE; GAS RELATIVE DENSITY; LINEAR MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONLINEAR MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OIL FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR; OIL SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SOLUTION GAS OIL RATIO;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 0030284536     PISSN: 01462520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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