Reconciling Time-Lapse Seismic and Production Data Using Streamline Models: The Bay Marchand Field, Gulf of Mexico

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 5263-5277

  Vasco, D W ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^b   He, Zhong ^b   Behrens, Ronald ^c   Rickett, James ^c   Condon, Patrick ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ChevronTexaco ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SEISMOLOGY;

PETROPHYSICS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 1142276409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/84568-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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