Improving performance prediction in deep-water reservoirs: Learning from outcrop analogues, conceptual models and flow simulation

International Petroleum Technology Conference, IPTC 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2735-2743

  Stewart, Jonathan ^a   Dunn, Paul ^a   Lyttle, Colin ^a   Campion, Kirt ^a   Oyerinde, Adedayo ^a   Fischer, Ben ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b Aspen Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP LEARNING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASOLINE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

3D GEOLOGIC MODELS; DEEP WATER RESERVOIRS; DEEP-WATER CHANNEL DEPOSITS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 67650567579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/iptc-12892-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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