TUPREP

Tulsa University Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects

Director: Albert C. Reynolds, Jr.

Associate Director: Gaoming Li

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS, 1996-2009
  1. Chaohui Chen, Yudou Wang, Gaoming Li and A. C. Reynolds: Closed-Loop Reservoir Management on The Brugge Test Case, accepted by Computational Geosciences.
  2. Gaoming Li, Mei Han, Raj Banerjee and A. C. Reynolds: Integration of Well Test Pressure Data Into Heterogeneous Geological Reservoir Models, accepted by SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering.
  3. Yudou Wang , Gaoming Li and A.C. Reynolds: Estimation of Depths of Fluid Contacts by History Matching Using Iterative Ensemble Kalman Smoothers, accepted by SPE Journal, 2009.
  4. Eydinov D., Gao, G., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Simultaneous estimation of relative permeability and porosity/permeability fields by history matching production data, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 48(12), December 2009.
  5. Boughrara A. A. and Reynolds, A. C.: Practical Analysis of Injection/Falloff Data of Horizontal Wells, SPE Journal, December 2009.
  6. Sigurd I. Aanonsen, Geir Nævdal, Dean S. Oliver, Albert C. Reynolds, and Brice Vall`es: Review paper: Ensemble Kalman Filter to Petroleum Engineering, SPE Journal (September 2009) 393-412.
  7. Gaoming Li, and Reynolds, A. C.: Iterative ensemble Kalman filters for data assimilation, SPE Journal (September 2009) 496-505.
  8. Chunhong Wang, Gaoming Li, and Reynolds, A. C.: Production optimization in closed-loop reservoir management, SPE Journal (September 2009) 506-523.
  9. Zhao, Y. and Reynolds, A. C.: Estimation and removal of tidal effects from pressure data, SPE Journal (March 2009) 144-152.
  10. Shi Chen , Gaoming Li, Alvaro Peres and A. C. Reynolds: A Well Test for In-Situ Determination of Relative Permeability Curves, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, Feburary 11(1), 2008.
  11. Mohammad Zafari and A. C. Reynolds: Assessing the Uncertainty in Reservoir Description and Performance Predictions With the Ensemble Kalman Filter, SPE Journal (Sept. 2007) 382-391.
  12. Boughrara A. A. Peres A., Chen Shi, Machado, A. and Reynolds, A. C.: Approximate Analytical Solutions for the Pressure Response at a Water-Injection Well, SPE Journal (March 2007) 19-34.
  13. Guohua Gao, and Gaoming Li and A. C. Reynolds: "A Stochastic Optimization Algorithm for Automatic History Matching," SPE Journal (June 2007) 196-208.
  14. Zhao, Y., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Characterizing measurement error in time-lapse seismic data and production data with an EM algorithm, Oil & Gas Science and Technology , Vol. 62, No. 2, p181-193, 2007.
  15. Guohua Gao, Mohammad Zafari and A. C. Reynolds: "Quantifying Uncertainty for the PUNQ-S3 Problem in a Bayesian Setting With RML and EnKF," SPE J (Dec, 2006) 506-515.
  16. Peres, A. M. M., Boughrara, A. and Reynolds, A. C.: Rate superposition for generating pressure falloff solutions for vertical and horizontal wells, SPE J (Sept, 2006) 364-374.
  17. Guohua Gao and A. C. Reynolds: "An Improved Implememntation of the LBFGS Algorithm for Automatic History Matching," SPE J (March 2006) 5-17.
  18. Zhang, F., Skjervheim, J.A., Reynolds, A.C. and Oliver, D.S.: “Automatic History Matching in a Bayesian Framework: Example Applications,” SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering (2005) 8, 214.
  19. Reynolds, A. C., Ruijian Li, and D. S. Oliver: "Simultaneous Estimation of Absolute and Relative Permeability by Automatic History Matching of Three-Phase Flow Production Data," J. Canadian Pet. Tech. (March 2004) 37-46.
  20. Liu, Ning and Dean S. Oliver: "Experimental assessment of gradual deformation method," Mathematical Geology , 36(1), pp 65-77, 2004 .
  21. Li, R., Reynolds, A. C., and Oliver, D. S.: "History Matching of Three-Phase Flow Production Data," SPE J (Dec, 2003) 328-340.
  22. Oliver, D. S.: "Gaussian Co-Simulation: Modeling of the Cross-Covariance," Mathematical Geology , 35(4), pp 181-197, 2003.
  23. Liu, Ning and Dean S. Oliver: "Evaluation of Monte Carlo methods for assessing uncertainty," SPE Journal 8(2), pp 188-195, 2003.
  24. Zhang, F., Reynolds, A. C., and Oliver, D. S.: “An initial guess for the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for conditioning a stochastic channel to pressure data”, Mathematical Geology , 35(1), pp 67-88, 2003.
  25. Peres, A. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Theory and Analysis of Injectivity Tests on Horizontal Wells," SPE J (June 2003) 147-159.
  26. Li, Ruijian, A. C. Reynolds, and D. S. Oliver: "Sensitivity Coefficients for Three-Phase Flow History Matching," J. Canadian Pet. Tech. (April 2003) 70-77.
  27. Zhang, F., Reynolds, A. C., and Oliver, D. S.: "The Impact of Upscaling Errors on Conditioning a Stochastic Channel to Pressure Data," SPE J (March 2003) 13-21.
  28. Onur, M. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Nonlinear Regression: The Information Content of Pressure and Pressure-Derivative Data," SPE J (Sept. 2002) 243-249.
  29. Oliver, D. S.: "Conditioning Channel Meanders to Well Observations," Mathematical Geology, 34(2), 181-197, 2002.
  30. Zhang, F., Reynolds, A. C., and Oliver, D. S.: "Evaluation of the Reduction in Uncertainty Obtained by Conditioning a 3D Stochastic Channel to Multiwell Pressure Data," Mathematical Geology, Vol. 34, No. 6 (August 2002) 715-742.
  31. Abacioglu, Y., Oliver, D. S., and Reynolds, A. C.: "Efficient History-Matching Using Subspace Vectors," Computational Geosciences, 5, 151-172, 2001.
  32. Oliver, D. S., Reynolds, A. C., Abacioglu, Y. and Bi, Z.: "Integration of production data," Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 7, No. SUPP, S65-S73, 2001.
  33. Bi, Z., Oliver, D. S., and Reynolds, A. C.: "Conditioning 3D stochastic channels to pressure data", Soc. Petrol. Eng. J., Vol. 5, No. 4 (2000) 474-484.
  34. He, N., Oliver, D. S. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Conditioning stochastic reservoir models to well-test data," SPE Res. Eng. and Eval., Vol. 3, No. 1, 74-79 (Feb. 2000)
  35. Wu, Z., Reynolds, A. C. and Oliver, D. S.: "Conditioning geostatistical models to two-phase production data," Soc. Petrol. Eng. J. Vol. 3, No. 2 (1999) 142-155.
  36. Reynolds, A. C., He, N. and Oliver, D. S.: "Reducing uncertainty in geostatistical description with well testing pressure data," in Reservoir Characterization-Recent Advances, R. A. Schatzinger and J. F. Jordan, eds., AAPG (1999) 149-162.
  37. Banerjee, R., Thompson, L. G. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Injection/falloff testing in heterogeneous reservoirs," SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Dec. 1998) 519-527.
  38. Oliver, D. S.: "Calculation of the inverse of the covariance," Mathematical Geology, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1998) 911-933.
  39. Oliver, D. S.: "The sensitivity of tracer concentration to nonuniform permeability and porosity," Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Feb. 1998) 155-175.
  40. He, N., Reynolds, A. C., and Oliver D. S.: "Three-dimensional reservoir description from multiwell pressure data," Soc. Pet. Eng. J., Vol. 2, No. 3 (Sept. 1997) 312-327.
  41. Onur, M. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Well testing applications of the numerical Laplace transform of sampled data," SPE Res. Evaluation and Eng. (June 1998) 268-277.
  42. Bonet-Cunha, L., Oliver, D. S., Redner, R. A., and Reynolds, A. C.: "A hybrid Markov chain Monte Carlo method for generating permeability fields conditioned to multiwell pressure data and prior information," Soc. Pet. Eng. J., Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sept. 1998) 261-271.
  43. Oliver, D. S., Cunha, L., and Reynolds, A. C.: "Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for conditioning a permeability field to pressure data," Mathematical Geology, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1997) 61-91.
  44. Thompson, L. G. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Well testing for radially heterogeneous reservoirs under single and multiphase flow conditions," SPE Formation Evaluation, Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 1997) 57-64.
  45. Thompson, L. G. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Pressure transient analysis for gas condensate reservoirs," In Situ, Vol. 21, No. 2 (1997) 101-144.
  46. Oliver, D. S.: "A comparison of the value of interference and well-test data for mapping permeability and porosity," In Situ, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1996) 41-59.
  47. Oliver, D. S.: "Multiple realizations of the permeability field from well test data," Soc. Petrol. Eng. J., Vol. 1. No. 2 (June 1996) 145-154.
  48. Reynolds, A. C., He, N., Chu, L. and Oliver, D. S.: "Reparameterization techniques for generating reservoir descriptions conditioned to variograms and well-test pressure data," Soc. Pet. Eng. J., Vol. 1, No. 4 (Dec. 1996) 413-426.
  49. Carvalho, R., Thompson, L. G., Redner, R. A. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Simple procedures for imposing constraints for Nonlinear Least Squares Optimization," Soc. Petrol. Eng. J., Vol. 1, No. 4 (Dec. 1996) 395-402.
  50. Oliver, D. S.: "On conditional simulation to inaccurate data," Mathematical Geology, Vol. 28, No. 1 (1996) 811-817.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 1996-2009

  1. Reza Tavakoli and A.C. Reynolds: History Matching with Parameterization Based on the SVD of a Dimensionless Sensitivity Matrix, paper SPE 118952, Proceedings of the 2009 SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium.
  2. Yudou Wang , Gaoming Li and A.C. Reynolds: Estimation of Depths of Fluid Contacts by History Matching Using Iterative Ensemble Kalman Smoothers, paper SPE 119056, Proceedings of the 2009 SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium.
  3. Yong Zhao, A.C. Reynolds and Gaoming Li: Generating Facies Maps by Assimilating Production Data and Seismic Data With the Ensemble Kalman Filter, paper SPE 113990, Proceedings of the 16th SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium.
  4. Chunhong Wang, Gaoming Li, and Reynolds, A. C.: Optimal Well Placement for Production Optimization, paper SPE 111154, Proceedings of the 2007 SPE Eastern Regional Meeting.
  5. Kristian Thulin, Gaoming Li, Sigurd Ivar Aanonsen and Albert C. Reynolds: Estimation of Initial Fluid Contacts by Assimilation of Production Data With EnKF, paper SPE 109975, Proceedings of the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  6. Gaoming Li,. and Reynolds, A. C.: An Iterative Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data Assimilation, paper SPE 109808, Proceedings of the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  7. Chunhong Wang, Gaoming Li, and Reynolds, A. C.: Production Optimization in Closed-Loop Reservoir Management, paper SPE 109805, Proceedings of the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  8. Boughrara A. A. and Reynolds, A. C.: Practical Analysis of Injection/Falloff Data of Horizontal Wells, paper SPE 109799, Proceedings of the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  9. Eydinov D., Gao, G., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Simultaneous estimation of relative permeability and porosity/permeability fields by history matching production data, Proceedings of the 2007 Canadian International Petroleum Conference June, 2007.
  10. Li, G., Gao, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Uncertainty quantification of relative permeability and porosity/permeability fields with RML method, Proceedings of China special EOR Forum , 2006.
  11. Zhao, Y. and Reynolds, A. C.: Estimation and removal of tidal effects from pressure data, Proceedings of the SPE ATCE, San Antonio, 24-27 Sept 2006.
  12. Chen, S., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Analytical solution for injection-falloff-production test, Proceedings of the SPE ATCE, San Antonio, 24-27 Sept 2006.
  13. Zhao, Y., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Characterizing data measurement errors with the EM algorithm, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Amsterdam, 4-7 Sept 2006.
  14. Reynolds, A. C., Zafari, M. and Li, G. : Iterative forms of the ensemble Kalman filter, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Amsterdam, 4-7 Sept 2006.
  15. Shi Chen , Gaoming Li, Alvaro Peres and A. C. Reynolds: " A Well Test for In-Situ Determination of Relative Permeability Curves " paper SPE 96414, Proceedings of the 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference.
  16. Mohammad Zafari and A. C. Reynolds: " Assessing the Uncertainty in Reservoir Description and Performance Predictions With the Ensemble Kalman Filter ," paper SPE 95750 , Proceedings of the 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  17. Guohua Gao, Mohammad Zafari and A. C. Reynolds: "The Tengiz Field History Matching Problem Revisited ," paper SPE 90896, Proceedings of the 2004 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
  18. Liu, Ning and Dean S. Oliver: "Automatic history matching of geologic facies," SPE 84594, 2003 SPE ATCE , Denver, 4-7 October.
  19. Dong, Yannong and Dean S. Oliver: "Quantitative Use of 4D Seismic Data for Reservoir Description," SPE 84571, 2003 SPE ATCE , Denver, 4-7 October.
  20. Liu, Ning and Dean S. Oliver: "Conditional simulation of truncated random fields using gradient methods," presented at the 2003 IAMG annual conference, 7-12 September, Portsmouth, UK.
  21. Zhang, Fengjun, Skjervheim, J. A. and Reynolds, A. C.: "An Automatic History Matching Example," Proceedings of the EAGE 65th Conference and Exhibition, Stavanger, Norway, June 2003.
  22. Zhang, Fengjun and Reynolds, A. C.: "E48: Optimization algorithms for automatic history matching of production data," 8th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Freiberg, Germany, 3-6 September 2002.(Download pdf file)
  23. Liu, N., Betancourt, S. and Oliver, D. S.: "Assessment of Uncertainty Assessment Methods (SPE 71624)," (presented at the 2001 SPE Annual Technical Conference).
  24. Reynolds, A. C., Ruijian Li, and D. S. Oliver: "Simultaneous Estimation of Absolute and Relative Permeability by Automatic History Matching of Three-Phase Flow Production Data," (presented at the 2001 Canadian International Petroleum Meeting) June 2001.
  25. Bi, Z., Oliver, D. S., and Reynolds, A. C.: "Conditioning 3D Stochastic Channels to Pressure Data," SPE 56682, Proceedings of the 1999 SPE Annual Technical Conf. and Exhib.
  26. Oliver, D. S.: "Calculation of the inverse covariance on bounded grids," Proceedings of Sixth European Conf. on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-11 Sept. 1998.
  27. Abacioglu, Y., Reynolds, A. C. and Oliver, D. S.: "Estimating heterogeneous anisotropic permeability fields from multiwell interference tests: A field example," SPE 38654, Proceedings of the 1997 SPE Annual Technical Conf. and Exhib.
  28. Brekke, K. and Thompson, L. G.: "Horizontal well productivity and risk assessment," SPE 36578, presented at the SPE 71st Annual Tech. Conf., 6-9 October 1996.
  29. Oliver, D. S., He, N. and Reynolds, A. C.: "Calibration of permeability fields to head data." Presented at 5th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Leoben, Austria, 3-6 Sept. 1996.

 

OTHER REPORTS, 2001-2004

  1. Final Report to DOE Project: "Mapping Reservoir Properties and Facies Through Integration of Static and Dynamic Data" 2004. (Download pdf file)
  2. Annual Report to DOE Project, 2003. (Download pdf file)
  3. Annual Report to DOE Project, 2002. (Download pdf file)
  4. Annual Report to DOE Project, 2001. (Download pdf file)

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