History matching using the ensemble Kalman filter on a North Sea field case

SPE Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 382-391

  Haugen, Vibeke ^a   Nœvdal, Geir ^b   Natvik, Lars Jørgen ^a   Evensen, Geir ^a,c   Berg, Aina M ^b   Flornes, Kristin M ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b IRIS   (Belgium)

^c Nansen Center   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; HISTORY MATCHING; NORTH SEA FIELDS; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PRODUCTION DATA; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL; SYNTHETIC MODELS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 58149520358     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/102430-PA     Document Type: Article

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