Statistical Methods for Estimating Petroleum Resources

摘要

Given the importance of petroleum resources it is not surprising that their extraction has deployed significant statistical effort. This ranges from the prediction of global and national peak oil production to geostatistical characterization of single reservoirs. This book is concerned with the analysis of existing data on the sizes of known single reservoirs within a given region to estimate that region's total resource potential. The book is primarily concerned with the suite of methods for resource estimation that comprises the late P.-J. Lee's PETRIMES software.