Waterflood management using two-stage optimization with streamline simulation

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 483-504

  Wen, Tailai ^a   Thiele, Marco R ^b   Ciaurri, David Echeverría ^c   Aziz, Khalid ^b   Ye, Yinyu ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Decline model; Optimization; Reservoir management; Streamline simulation; Waterflooding

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOW MODELING; FLUID INJECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESERVOIR FLOODING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84906940799     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9404-4     Document Type: Article

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