Lost Hills Field Trial - Incorporating New Technology for Reservoir Management

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2645-2655

  Brink, J L ^a   Patzek, T W ^b   Silin, D B ^b   Fielding, E J ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FRACTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCKS; SCADA SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EXPANDABLE CASING SYSTEMS; WATER INJECTION WELLS;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 1142266631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/77646-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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