I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong: A new approach to decision making in the petroleum exploration and production industry

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1373-1392

  Bratvold, Reidar B ^a   Begg, Steve H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MODELING LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

DECISION MAKING TOOL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVESTMENT DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; PETROLEUM EXPLORATION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REAL OPTIONS VALUATIONS; SIMPLIFIED COMPONENT MODEL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HOLISTIC APPROACH; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 55349084424     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/06040808070     Document Type: Article

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