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Yu, Xinghe, Y. Zee Ma, David Psaila, Paul La Pointe, Ernest Gomez, and Shengli Li,
DOI:10.1306/13301421M963458
2011 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Reservoir Characterization and Modeling: A Look Back to See the Way Forward
Xinghe Yu,1 Y. Zee Ma,2 David Psaila,3 Paul La Pointe,4 Ernest Gomez,5 Shengli Li6
1School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
2Schlumberger, Greenwood Village, Colorado, U.S.A.
3WesternGeco, Gatwick, West Sussex, United Kingdom
4Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, Washington, U.S.A.
5Schlumberger, Greenwood Village, Colorado, U.S.A.
6School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the reviewers for many helpful suggestions. This work was partially supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team at the China University of Geosciences (IRT0864) and by the Key Laboratory of Marine Reservoir Evolution and Hydrocarbon Accumulation Mechanism, Ministry of Education (EEL2008-6). Correspondence author is Y. Zee Ma.
ABSTRACT
As the demand for fossil fuels continues to grow and fields mature, reservoir characterization has become increasingly important. At the same time, the maturation of many of the world's fields presents new challenges for reservoir characterization. The history of various phases of petroleum geology and reservoir characterization illustrates how these challenges were met in the past, and what new tools and techniques will be emerging in the future. Important past developments include the transition from general petroleum geology to reservoir geology, from disciplinary-focused reservoir description to integrated reservoir characterization, from two-dimensional conceptual mapping of geology to three-dimensional numerical modeling of reservoirs, and from reservoir deterministic analysis to uncertainty analysis. The challenges and perspectives for the future developments in reservoir characterization are also discussed in this chapter.
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