Estimation of depths of fluid contacts by history matching using iterative ensemble kalman smoothers

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 750-766

  Wang, Yudou ^a   Li, Gaoming ^a   Reynolds, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; MATCHING PRODUCTION; MODEL PARAMETERS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; STATISTICAL CONSISTENCIES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 70449633012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/119056-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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