Generating facies maps by assimilating production data and seismic data with the ensemble Kalman filter

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1386-1415

  Zhao, Yong ^a   Reynolds, Albert C ^a   Li, Gaoming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DENSITY; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 55149121652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113990-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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