Prudhoe bay: Rebuilding a giant oil and gas full field model

SPE Western Regional Meeting 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-159

  Ding, Eric ^a   Harrison, Peter ^a   Dozzo, Joe ^b   Lin, C Y ^c  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b Intl Reservoir Technologies Inc   (Australia)

^c BP ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COMPOSITIONAL MODELING; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PRESSURE MAINTENANCE; PSEUDO RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SOFTWARE AND HARDWARES; SURFACE PIPELINE NETWORKS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 70449595584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/120967-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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