Simulation of permeability field conditioned to well test data

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 731-745

  Srinivasan, Sanjay ^a   Journel, Andre G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELLS; WELL LOGGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELL TESTING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; EXPECTED VALUES; HIGHER RESOLUTION; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; POWER TRANSFORMS; TEST INFORMATION; WELL LOG DATA; WELL TEST DATA;

WELL TESTING; OIL WELLS;

LINEAR POWER AVERAGING MODEL; NONLINEAR POWER TRANSFORM;

EID: 0031642470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 26386712     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/49289-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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