Multipoint statistical characterization of geologic facies from dynamic data and uncertain training images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 206-217

  Khodabakhshi, Morteza ^a   Jafarpour, Behnam ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

MULTI-POINT STATISTICS; NON-LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEM; NONLINEAR RELATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84860194280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/146935-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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