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An improved multiscale method for life-cycle production optimization

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Abstract

This work proposes a new hierarchical multiscale optimization technique to improve the performance of life-cycle production optimization. This approach represents a combination of two previous multiscale approaches presented in the literature and is theoretically motivated by the concept of refinement indicators. The new algorithm is applied to two example problems, and its performance is compared with other life-cycle production optimization algorithms that have been proposed in the literature including the two hierarchical multiscale optimization methods on which it is based. In a separate paper (Oliveira and Reynolds 2015), the proposed algorithm is successfully applied to a field case.

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  1. Petrobras Research Center, Av. Horácio de Macêdo, 950, Cd. Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-915, Brazil

    Diego F. B. Oliveira

  2. Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa, 800 South Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK, 74104, USA

    Albert C. Reynolds

  3. Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600, GA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jan Dirk Jansen

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Oliveira, D.F.B., Reynolds, A.C. & Jansen, J.D. An improved multiscale method for life-cycle production optimization. Comput Geosci 19, 1139–1157 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-015-9530-7

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