A road map for improving the technical basis for the estimation of petroleum reserves

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-303

  Worthington, Paul F ^a  

^a Gaffney Cline and Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data integration; Geoengineering workplan; Petroleum reserves; Uncertainty reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MAPS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 36348982187     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-732     Document Type: Article

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