Browsing by Subject "History Matching"
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(2013-07-26)Unconventional reservoirs are typically characterized by very low permeabilities, and thus, the pressure depletion from a producing well may not propagate far from the well during the life of a development. Currently, two ...
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(2017-07-21)Finite difference based reservoir simulation is commonly used to predict well rates in these reservoirs. Such detailed simulation requires an accurate knowledge of reservoir geology. Also, these reservoir simulations may ...
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(2012-10-19)Reservoir characterization is one of the most important problems in petroleum engineering. It involves forward reservoir modeling that predicts the fluid behavior in the reservoir and inverse problem that calibrates created ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This work presents a new approach that combines the comprehensive capabilities of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and the flow path information from streamlines to eliminate and/or reduce some of the problems and limitations ...
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(2020-04-13)Pressure drawdown management plays a key technical role in reservoir management as it has an important impact on the estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) and, consequently, on the cash flow and economic viability. Thus, ...
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(2014-08-28)The use of the streamline-based method for reservoir management is receiving increased interest in recent years because of its computational advantages and intuitive appeal for reservoir simulation, history matching and ...
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An Efficient Method for Fractured Shale Reservoir Simulation & History Matching: The cEDFM Approach (2018-11-28)The intricate physics of unconventional reservoir fluid transportation has posed great challenges to traditional simulation approaches. Resources such as shale are usually associated with complex fracture networks generated ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Reconciling high-resolution geologic models to field production history is still a very time-consuming procedure. Recently streamline-based assisted and automatic history matching techniques, especially production data ...
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(2019-07-10)Proper characterization of heterogeneous rock properties and natural/induced fracture properties is essential for optimizing field development plan and reliable estimation of Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) in conventional ...
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(2012-02-14)Modern reservoir management typically involves simulations of geological models to predict future recovery estimates, providing the economic assessment of different field development strategies. Integrating reservoir data ...
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(2009-05-15)Uncertainty quantification involves sampling the reservoir parameters correctly from a posterior probability function that is conditioned to both static and dynamic data. Rigorous sampling methods like Markov Chain Monte ...
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(2014-12-18)Reservoir simulation models are generated by petroleum engineers to optimize field operation and production, thus maximizing oil recovery. History matching methods are extensively used for reservoir model calibration and ...
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(2011-02-22)In this thesis, we propose two novel approaches for hybrid Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) to overcome limitations of the traditional EnKF. The first approach is to swap the ensemble mean for the ensemble mode estimation to ...
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(2017-12-05)The Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm is a well-known method for estimating maximum likelihood and can be used to find missing numbers in an array. The EM Algorithm has been used extensively in Electrical and Electronics ...
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Performance of Assisted History Matching Techniques When Utilizing Multiple Initial Geologic Models (2011-11-15)History matching is a process wherein changes are made to an initial geologic model of a reservoir, so that the predicted reservoir performance matches with the known production history. Changes are made to the model ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Geologic models derived from static data alone typically fail to reproduce the production history of a reservoir, thus the importance of reconciling simulation models to the dynamic response of the reservoir. This necessity ...
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(2015-06-25)Reconciling a geological static model to the available dynamic information, known as history matching, is an essential procedure for the decision-making through predictions of fluid displacement in a reservoir. However, ...
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(2015-08-10)For field development, hydrocarbon recovery is considered as one of the main objectives through the whole life cycle of the field. The reservoir management during the field development ranges from planning for the field ...