Hydraulic flow units resolve reservoir description challenges in a siberian oil field

Proceedings of the SPE Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Modelling for Asset Management

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 437-452

  Svirsky, Dmitry ^a   Ryazanov, Andrey ^a   Pankov, Michael ^a   Corbett, Patrick W M ^b   Posysoev, Andrey ^c  

^a Yukos EP ^*

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MINERALOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; THEOREM PROVING;

FREE WATER LEVEL (FWL); HYDRAULIC FLOW UNIT (HFU); RESERVOIR MODELS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 2942534704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/87056-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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