Inferring Interwell Connectivity from Well-Rate Fluctuations in Waterfloods

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 847-861

  Albertoni, Alejandro ^a   Lake, Larry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMECHANICS; OIL RECOVERY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LINEAR EQUATIONS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; OIL WELLS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; VISCOSITY;

WELL FLOODING;

EID: 1642476366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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