Total-property modeling: Dispelling the net-to-gross myth

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 866-873

  Ringrose, Philip S ^a  

^a StatoilHydro ASA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; PROPERTY MODELS; RECOMMENDED PRACTICE; RESERVOIR DATA; RESERVOIR MODELING; RESERVOIR MODELS; SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY; UPSCALING METHODS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ALGORITHM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODELING; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 57349110613     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/106620-pa     Document Type: Article

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