Scalability of the deterministic and Bayesian approaches to production-data integration into reservoir models

SPE Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 330-338

  Vega, Leonardo ^a   Rojas, Danny ^b   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^c  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; PRODUCTION DATA INTEGRATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 4744337763     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/88961-PA     Document Type: Article

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