Tips, tricks and traps of material balance calculations

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 34-48

  Carlson, M R ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a Applied Reservoir Engineering Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^d Home Oil Company Limited

^e Scientific Software Intercomp ^*

^f Appl Reservoir Eng and Eval Ltd   (Australia)

^g McDaniel and Assoc Consultants Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OIL WELL DRILLING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPREADSHEETS;

MATERIAL BALANCE CALCULATIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0031358752     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/97-11-04     Document Type: Article

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