Probabilistic performance forecasting for unconventional reservoirs with stretched-exponential model

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Gas Conference 2011, UGC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 76-87

  Can, B ^a   Kabir, C S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROVEN RESERVES; WELL COMPLETION;

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL MODELS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 80052399684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/143666-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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