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Authors
Kim, Jong Suk; Lake, Larry W.; Edgar, Thomas F.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3182/20120531-2-NO-4020.00009

Page Numbers:
19-24

Index Terms
Production Optimisation: Coupling of production data and transmission systems with numerical modeling and optimization and decision support applications for the reservoir and production system

Abstract
Capacitance-resistance modeling of petroleum reservoirs has been used successfully to analyze transient behavior of petroleum reservoirs both onshore and offshore. This paper presents a linear reservoir model that provides advantages over the nonlinear capacitance-resistance model: convex objective function, efficient solution, and direct estimation of confidence limits on model parameters. The proposed procedure uses a constrained linear multivariate regression to infer preferential permeability trends and fractures in a waterflooded reservoir. The relationship between interwell-connectivities and interwell-distance between injector-producer well-pairs was also investigated.

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