Use of formation pressure test results over a hydrate interval for long-term production forecasting at the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope: Implications of uncertainties

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 535-545

  Pooladi Darvish, Mehran ^a   Hong, Huifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forecast; History matching; Hydrate; MDT test; Uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

FORECAST; FORMATION PRESSURE; HISTORY MATCH; HISTORY MATCHING; HYDRATE DECOMPOSITION; LONG-TERM FORECAST; MDT TEST; MODULAR FORMATION DYNAMICS TESTERS; NONUNIQUENESS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRODUCTION FORECASTING; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; SCHLUMBERGER; SHORT-TERM TEST; T-STABILITY; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

FORECASTING; HYDRATION; MOUNTINGS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TESTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GAS HYDRATES;

FORECASTING METHOD; GAS HYDRATE; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELL TESTING;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651420093     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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