History matching of three-phase flow production data

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 328-340

  Li, Ruijian ^a   Reynolds, A C ^b   Oliver, D S ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

GAS-OIL RATIO; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATE; THREE-PHASE FLOW; WATER-OIL RATIO;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0346009301     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87336-PA     Document Type: Article

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