An integrated method for calibrating a heterogeneous/fractured reservoir model from wellbore flow measurements: Case study

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-445

  Pourpak, Hamid ^a   Bourbiaux, Bernard ^a   Roggero, Frédéric ^a   Delay, Frederick ^b  

^a Institut François du Pétrole IFP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DEFORMATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGY; GRADIENT METHODS; LIME; PETROPHYSICS; WELL PUMPS;

GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS; GRADUAL DEFORMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PETROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CALIBRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING;

EID: 67651160408     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113528-pa     Document Type: Article

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