Probabilistic subsurface forecasting-What do we really know?

JPT, Journal of Petroleum Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 86-92

  Wolff, Martin ^a  

^a HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

BROWN FIELDS; COMPANY PORTFOLIO; DECISION MAKERS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT TECHNIQUES (DOE); DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; DYNAMIC UNCERTAINTY; ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77956521007     PISSN: 01492136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/118550-jpt     Document Type: Article

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