Estimation of depths of fluid contacts and relative permeability curves by history matching using iterative ensemble-Kalman smoothers

SPE Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 509-525

  Wang, Yudou ^a   Li, Gaoming ^c   Reynolds, Albert C ^b  

^a China Textile   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

DYNAMIC DATA; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; HISTORY MATCHING; KALMAN SMOOTHER; MATCHING PRODUCTION; MODELING PARAMETERS; POWER-LAW; PRODUCTION DATA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; ROCK PROPERTIES; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; STATISTICAL CONSISTENCIES;

ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77954855387     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/119056-PA     Document Type: Article

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