Recovery factor and reserves estimation in the Bakken Petroleum System (analysis of the Antelope, Sanish and Parshall fields)

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2011, CURC 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2226-2240

  Dechongkit, P ^a   Prasad, M ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED WELLS; GASOLINE; HYDROCARBONS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; WELL SPACING;

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION; EXPECTED ULTIMATE RECOVERIES; HYDROCARBON PROPERTIES; INACCURATE INFORMATION; MATERIAL BALANCE EQUATION; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS;

PROVEN RESERVES;

EID: 84860618104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/149471-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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