The quality map: A tool for reservoir uncertainty quantification and decision making

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-14

  da Cruz, Paulo S ^a   Home, Roland N ^b   Deutsch, Clayton V ^c  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FLOW SIMULATORS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MAPPING; RESERVOIR FLUID; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

DECISION MAKING; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MAPPING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 1542346771     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87642-PA     Document Type: Article

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