The use of capacitance-resistance models for rapid estimation of waterflood performance and optimization

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 227-238

  Sayarpour, M ^a,c   Zuluaga, E ^a   Kabir, C S ^b   Lake, Larry W ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitance modeling; history matching; waterflood assessment and optimization; waterflood prediction with analytic tools

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TOOLS; CAPACITANCE MODELING; HISTORY MATCHING; WATER FLOOD; WATERFLOOD PREDICTION WITH ANALYTIC TOOLS;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WATER INJECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 71149092529     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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