Retaining Geological Realism in Dynamic Modelling: A Channelized Turbidite Reservoir Example from West Africa

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-52

  Alpak, Faruk O ^a   Barton, Mark D ^a   Castineira, David ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; History matching; Inverse problems; Reservoir forecasting; Reservoir simulation; Turbidite reservoirs; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; HISTORY MATCHING; RESERVOIR FORECASTING; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; TURBIDITE RESERVOIRS; UNCERTAINTY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA HANDLING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MANAGEMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STRATIGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; CHANNELIZATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INVERSE PROBLEM; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; SEISMICITY; SHALE; TURBIDITE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 79751501483     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-033     Document Type: Article

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