Assessing the impact of fault connectivity uncertainty in reservoir studies using explicit discretization

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Characterisation and Simulation Conference and Exhibition 2011, RCSC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 526-534

  Cherpeau, Nicolas ^a   Caumon, Guillaume ^a   Caers, Jef ^b   Lévy, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW GRAPHS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONNECTIVITY GRAPH; DYNAMIC RESERVOIR MODELS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PRODUCTION CURVE; RESERVOIR MODELING; STOCHASTIC FAULTS; STRUCTURAL MODELING; SUB-SURFACE IMAGING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84860189078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/148085-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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