Accurate estimation of the world crude oil PVT properties using graphical alternating conditional expectation

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 688-698

  Malallah, Adel ^a   Gharbi, Ridha ^a   Algharaib, Meshal ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ESTIMATION; GAS OILS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

BUBBLE-POINT PRESSURE; GRAPHICAL ALTERNATING CONDITIONAL EXPECTATION; OIL FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR; PRESSURE, VOLUME, AND TEMPERATURE (PVT) PROPERTIES;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 33645644934     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef0501750     Document Type: Article

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