Critical evaluation of the ensemble Kalman filter on history matching of geologic facies

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-96

  Liu, N ^a   Oliver, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER (ENKF); GEOLOGICAL FACIES; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD (MCMC); RANDOMIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (RML);

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 22244454398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/92867-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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