Economic optimization and uncertainty assessment of commercial SAGD operations

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2007, CIPC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yang, C ^a   Card, C ^a   Nghiem, L ^a  

^a University of Calgary and Computer Modelling Group Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING; GASOLINE; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; INFILL DRILLING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; STEAM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; HEAVY OIL AND BITUMENS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; OPTIMUM OPERATING CONDITIONS; THE NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV); UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85088069173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2007-029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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