A structured approach for probabilistic-assisted history matching using evolutionary algorithms: Tengiz field applications

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3532-3549

  Cheng, H ^a   Dehghani, K ^a   Billiter, T ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b Tengizchevroil Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OIL FIELDS;

ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; ENGINEERING JUDGMENTS; FIELD APPLICATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; STRUCTURED APPROACH; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 58849147583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/116212-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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