Generalized field development optimization: Coupled well-placement and control under geologic uncertainty

ECMOR 2012 - 13th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, L ^a   Jafarpour, B ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; SIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATION; SIMULTANEOUS SOLUTION; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS; WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84896967141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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