Application of the "continuous estimation of ultimate recovery" methodology to estimate reserves in unconventional reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources and International Petroleum Conference 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2848-2908

  Currie, S M ^a   Ilk, D ^a   Blasingame, T A ^a   Symmons, D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASOLINE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; TRANSITION FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; EXPONENTIAL RELATION; EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUES; HYPERBOLIC RELATIONS; PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS; RESERVES ESTIMATIONS; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS;

PROVEN RESERVES;

EID: 79953090649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/138155-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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