Joint optimization of oil well placement and controls

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1061-1079

  Bellout, Mathias C ^a   Echeverría Ciaurri, David ^b   Durlofsky, Louis J ^c   Foss, Bjarne ^a   Kleppe, Jon ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint methods; Derivative free optimization; Mixed integer nonlinear programming; Oil production optimization; Optimal oil well placement; Simulation based optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEARITY; OIL FIELD; OIL WELL; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84866461129     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-012-9303-5     Document Type: Article

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