A New Tool to Make Quick Estimates of Probabilistic Reserves from Production Trends

SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 147-154

  Idrobo, E A ^a   Jimenez E A ^b   Bernal, M C ^a  

^a ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^b American Geoexploration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS (DCA); PROBABILISTIC RESERVES ESTIMATION PACKAGE (PREP);

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1142279447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/68597-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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