Streamline-based method with full-physics forward simulation for history-matching performance data of a North Sea field

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-180

  Agarwal, Bijan ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^b  

^a DUBAI PETROLEUM   (United Arab Emirates)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHYSICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FULL-PHYSICS FORWARD SIMULATION; HISTORY MATCHING PERFORMANCE; NORTH SEA FIELD; STREAMLINE BASED METHOD;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 0038112107     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/84952-PA     Document Type: Article

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