Simultaneous Estimation of Absolute and Relative Permeability by Automatic History Matching of Three-Phase Flow Production Data

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 37-46

  Reynolds, Albert C ^a,b   Li, Ruijian ^a,c   Oliver, Dean S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Department of Petroleum Engineering   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THREE-PHASE FLOW;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 1942535215     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/04-03-03     Document Type: Review

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