Fuzziness, incompleteness and randomness: Classification of uncertainty in reservoir appraisal

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-209

  Foley, Lucy ^a   Ball, Leslie ^b   Hurst, Andrew ^a   Davis, John ^b   Blockley, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Fuzziness; Incompleteness; Randomness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FUZZINESS; INCOMPLETENESS; RANDOMNESS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0031411508     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.3.3.203     Document Type: Article

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