Ensemble based characterization and history matching of naturally fractured tight/shale gas reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2010 - In Collaboration with the Joint Meetings of the Pacific Section AAPG and Cordilleran Section GSA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 996-1029

  Ghods, Parham ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; ENERGY RESOURCES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GAS SUPPLY; GASES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; TIGHT GAS;

COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; DUAL-POROSITY DUAL-PERMEABILITY MODELS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE-ERROR ESTIMATIONS; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 77958464745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/133606-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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