Streamline-assisted ensemble Kalman filter for rapid and continuous reservoir model updating

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1046-1060

  Arroyo Negrete, Elkin ^a   Devegowda, Deepak ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a   Choe, John ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; KALMAN FILTERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

CONTINUOUS RESERVOIRS; CROSS-COVARIANCE MATRIX; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FIELD APPLICATION; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HISTORY MATCHING; LOW PERMEABILITY; MODEL UPDATING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR MODELS; ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING; CROSS COVARIANCE MATRICES; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PERFORMANCE FORECASTING; TIME-LAPSE SEISMIC DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MODELING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 59649096541     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/104255-PA     Document Type: Article

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