Field experiences with assisted and automatic history matching using streamline models

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 315-330

  Cheng, Hao ^a   Wen, Xian Huan ^b   Milliken, William J ^b   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ChevronTexaco Energy Technology Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING (AHM); FLOW RATE; GENERALIZED TRAVEL TIME INVERSION (GTTI); GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 22044441478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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