In the area of reservoir engineering, the optimization of oil and gas production is a complex task involving a myriad of interconnected decision variables shaping the production system's …
We consider a technique to estimate an approximate gradient using an ensemble of randomly chosen control vectors, known as Ensemble Optimization (EnOpt) in the oil and …
As the crucial step in closed-loop reservoir management, robust life-cycle production optimization is defined as maximizing/minimizing the expected value of a predefined …
Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is a popular procedure for waterflooding optimization under geological uncertainty that maximizes the expectation of net present value (NPV) over …
With the energy demand arising globally, geothermal recovery by Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) becomes a promising option to bring a sustainable energy supply and …
DO Schulte, D Arnold, S Geiger, V Demyanov, I Sass - Geothermics, 2020 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy has a high potential to contribute to a more sustainable energy system if the associated economic risks can be overcome in the design process. The development …
B Chen, AC Reynolds - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract CO 2 water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection is an enhanced oil recovery method designed to improve sweep efficiency during CO 2 injection with the injected water to control …
Production optimization under geological uncertainty is computationally expensive, as a large number of well control schedules must be evaluated over multiple geological …
Hydraulic fracturing is the most widely used technology for the commercial exploitation of shale-gas reservoirs, yet still faces high cost and development risk caused by many …