A variable-control well placement optimization for improved reservoir development

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 871-889

  Li, Lianlin ^a   Jafarpour, Behnam ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Production optimization; Reservoir development; Reservoir engineering; Well control; Well distance constraint; Well placement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SOFTWARE; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 84866442236     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-012-9292-4     Document Type: Article

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