Economic optimization and uncertainty assessment of commercial sagd operations

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Yang, C ^a   Card, C ^b   Nghiem, L ^a  

^a University of Calgary and Computer Modelling Group Ltd   (Canada)

^b BASIS Phoenix   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; HISTORY MATCH; PERFORMANCE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPONSE SURFACE; SURFACE GENERATIONS; THE NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV); UNCERTAINTY; WORK-FLOWS;

STEAM;

EID: 70349760305     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/09-09-33     Document Type: Article

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