Effective EOR decision strategies with limited data: Field cases demonstration

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 551-561

  Manrique, Eduardo ^a   Izadi, Mehdi ^a   Kitchen, Curtis ^a   Alvarado, Vladimir ^b  

^a Norwest Questa Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; OIL SANDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; QUALITY CONTROL; TABLE LOOKUP;

CONDENSATE RESERVOIRS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION AVAILABILITY; OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURES; PROPERTY EVALUATION; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

CORRELATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERT SYSTEM; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 70349663868     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113269-PA     Document Type: Article

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