An evaluation of procedures to estimate uncertainty in hydrocarbon recovery predictions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 465-475

  Chewaroungroaj, Jirawat ^a   Varela, Omar J ^a   Lake, Larry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SAMPLING; TURNAROUND TIME;

CLUSTERS; OIL RECOVERY; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE SURFACE;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 3042731018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/59449-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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