Quantification of Uncertainty by Combining Forecasting with History Matching

Autor: Duane A. McVay, Martin G. Alvarado, W. John Lee
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Petroleum Science and Technology. 23:445-462
ISSN: 1532-2459
1091-6466
Popis: Quantifying uncertainty in production forecasts is critical to making good reservoir management decisions, particularly for many current investment opportunities that require intensive technology and large investments, and that may have marginal profitability indicators. Reservoir studies are conducted to support decision making, but reservoir management decisions must often be made before completion of these studies. This paper presents a new approach to reservoir studies that combines production forecasting with history matching. The approach provides preliminary production forecasts much earlier in reservoir studies. More importantly, the approach provides estimates of uncertainty associated with the forecasts. This is accomplished by using the mismatch of history match runs to weight corresponding forecast runs. We illustrate application of the method to the 8-Sand reservoir in the Green Canyon 18 field, Gulf of Mexico. We observed that, as the accuracy of the model increased during the histo...
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