Generalized field-development optimization with derivative-free procedures

SPE Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 891-908

  Isebor, Obiajulu J ^a,b   Ciaurri, David Echeverría ^a,c   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; FILTER-BASED TECHNIQUE; GLOBAL SEARCH PROCEDURE; MESH ADAPTIVE DIRECT SEARCH; MIXED INTEGER NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; REAL-VALUED VARIABLES; RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT;

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD;

EID: 84908095485     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/163631-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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