Integration of well-test pressure data into heterogeneous geological reservoir models

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 496-508

  Li, Gaoming ^a   Han, Mei ^a   Banerjee, Raj ^b   Reynolds, Albert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SIMULATORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WELL TESTING;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GEOLOGICAL RESERVOIRS; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTI-VARIATE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; STATISTICAL INCONSISTENCIES; TWO-LAYER RESERVOIRS;

DATA INTEGRATION;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICS; HETEROGENEITY; KALMAN FILTER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESERVOIR; STOCHASTICITY; WELL;

EID: 77955367882     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/124055-PA     Document Type: Article

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