A fuzzy logic approach for estimation of permeability and rock type from conventional well log data: An example from the Kangan reservoir in the Iran Offshore Gas Field

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 356-369

  Ilkhchi, Ali Kadkhodaie ^a   Rezaee, Mohammadreza ^a,c   Moallemi, Seyed Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network; Fuzzy c means clustering; Fuzzy logic; Iran offshore gas field; Kangan reservoir; Permeability; Rock types

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052849114     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/3/4/007     Document Type: Article

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