Recent progress on reservoir history matching: a review

DS Oliver, Y Chen - Computational Geosciences, 2011 - Springer
History matching is a type of inverse problem in which observed reservoir behavior is used
to estimate reservoir model variables that caused the behavior. Obtaining even a single …

Inversion using a new low-dimensional representation of complex binary geological media based on a deep neural network

E Laloy, R Hérault, J Lee, D Jacques… - Advances in water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Efficient and high-fidelity prior sampling and inversion for complex geological media is still a
largely unsolved challenge. Here, we use a deep neural network of the variational …

Closed-loop reservoir management

JD Jansen, SD Douma, DR Brouwer… - SPE Reservoir …, 2009 - onepetro.org
Closed-loop reservoir management is a combination of model-based optimization and data
assimilation (computer-assisted history matching), also referred to as 'real-time reservoir …

Process control in conventional oil and gas fields—Challenges and opportunities

B Foss - Control Engineering Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents some key operational challenges in the upstream petroleum industries
in which advanced control and model-based optimization has or may have a significant …

Efficient real-time reservoir management using adjoint-based optimal control and model updating

P Sarma, LJ Durlofsky, K Aziz, WH Chen - Computational Geosciences, 2006 - Springer
The key ingredients to successful real-time reservoir management, also known as a “closed-
loop” approach, include efficient optimization and model-updating (history-matching) …

A deep-learning-based geological parameterization for history matching complex models

Y Liu, W Sun, LJ Durlofsky - Mathematical Geosciences, 2019 - Springer
A new low-dimensional parameterization based on principal component analysis (PCA) and
convolutional neural networks (CNN) is developed to represent complex geological models …

History matching of three-phase flow production data

R Li, AC Reynolds, DS Oliver - SPE Journal, 2003 - onepetro.org
Adjoint equations for 3D, three-phase flow problems are developed and implemented to
calculate the sensitivity of production data to permeability fields and well skin factors …

Kernel principal component analysis for efficient, differentiable parameterization of multipoint geostatistics

P Sarma, LJ Durlofsky, K Aziz - Mathematical Geosciences, 2008 - Springer
This paper describes a novel approach for creating an efficient, general, and differentiable
parameterization of large-scale non-Gaussian, non-stationary random fields (represented by …

A new differentiable parameterization based on principal component analysis for the low-dimensional representation of complex geological models

HX Vo, LJ Durlofsky - Mathematical Geosciences, 2014 - Springer
A new approach based on principal component analysis (PCA) for the representation of
complex geological models in terms of a small number of parameters is presented. The …

History matching with an ensemble Kalman filter and discrete cosine parameterization

B Jafarpour, DB McLaughlin - Computational Geosciences, 2008 - Springer
History matching of large hydrocarbon reservoirs is challenging because of several reasons
including:(1) scarcity of available measurements relative to the number of unknowns …