Statistical scale-up of reservoir properties: Concepts and applications

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 27-39

  Lake, Larry W ^a   Srinivasan, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Block Kriging; Kriging; Permeability scaling; Representative elementary volume; Scale up; Scaling heterogeneity; Variance of the mean

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME (REV); RESERVOIR MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

AUTOCORRELATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; KRIGING; PERMEABILITY; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 6444238615     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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