Optimal well placement under uncertainty using a retrospective optimization framework

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1123-1141

  Wang, Honggang ^a   Ciaurri, David Echeverría ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a   Cominelli, Alberto ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Eni E and P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SAMPLING; CLUSTER-BASED; CUMULATIVE OIL PRODUCTION; GEOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LINE SEARCHES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NET PRESENT VALUE; OPTIMAL WELL PLACEMENT; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; OPTIMIZERS; RANDOM SAMPLING; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; SUB-PROBLEMS; SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY; WELL CONFIGURATION; WELL LOCATION;

ALGORITHMS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 79957927898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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