Combining gradual deformation and upscaling techniques for direct conditioning of fine-scale reservoir models to interference test data

SPE Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-87

  Mezghani, Mokhlès ^a   Roggero, Frédéric ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; WELL LOGGING;

COARSE SCALE FLOW SIMULATION MODEL; FINE SCALE GEOSTATISTICALLY BASED RESERVOIR MODEL; GRADUAL DEFORMATION PARAMERITIZATION; HISTORY MATCHING PROCESS; NUMERICAL FLOW SIMULATOR; UPSCALING TECHNIQUES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1942421669     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87843-PA     Document Type: Article

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