Identification of geological shapes in reservoir engineering by history matching production data

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 139-149

  Rahon, Daniel ^a   Edoa, Paul Francis ^a   Masmoudi, Mohamed ^b  

^a IFP Enterprises Inc   (United States)

^b Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL TESTING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

HETEROGENEOUS MODELING; INTEGRATED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; MATCHING PARAMETERS; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL FLOW SIMULATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS; HISTORY MATCHING; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031645701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 26386712     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/48969-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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