Optimal Multilateral Well Placement

The oil industry is often faced with the problem of finding the optimal location and trajectory for an oil well. Increasingly this includes the additional complication of optimising the design of a multilateral well. We present a new approach based on the theory of expensive function optimisation....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Farmer, C, Fowkes, J, Gould, N
Format: Report
Published: EAGE 2010