Gravimetric monitoring of gas-reservoir water influx - A combined flow- and gravity-modeling approach

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Stenvold, Torkjell ^a,b   Eiken, Ola ^c   Landrø, Martin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b EnVision AS   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; GAS INDUSTRY; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY;

4D SEISMIC DATA; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; DRIVE MECHANISM; MATERIAL BALANCE; OBSERVATION WELLS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL; SURFACE GRAVITY; WELL MONITORING;

GASES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY SURVEY; MONITORING SYSTEM; SEISMIC DATA; SIMULATION;

EID: 57149106516     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2991104     Document Type: Article

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