A New Approach for Reservoir Characterization

SPE Eastern Regional Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 117-126

  Aminian, K ^a   Thomas, B ^a   Ameri, S ^a   Bilgesu, H I ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OIL WELL LOGGING; PERMEAMETERS (MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY); POROSITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOPHYSICAL LOG DATA; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1842537072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/78710-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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