Handling Production-Data Uncertainty in History Matching: The Meren Reservoir Case Study

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2549-2559

  Kabir, C S ^a   Young, N J ^a  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; ROCK MECHANICS;

ROCK-FLUID FLOW PROPERTIES; WELLBORE FLOW CALIBRATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1142266332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/71621-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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