Automatic history matching in a Bayesian framework, example applications

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 214-223

  Zhang, Fengjun ^a   Skjervheim, Jan Arild ^b   Reynolds, Albert C ^c   Oliver, Dean S ^d  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK; GAS/OIL RATIO (GOR); MODEL PARAMETERS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ALGORITHM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

EID: 21444439649     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/84461-PA     Document Type: Article

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