Prediction of Flow Units and Permeability Using Artificial Neural Networks

SPE Western Regional/AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 297-303

  Aminian, K ^a   Ameri, S ^a   Oyerokun, A ^b   Thomas, B ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^c MARIETTA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; POROSITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEDIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FLOW CAPACITY; PETROPHYSICS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842418510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/83586-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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