Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists

Statistics and geology form a powerful partnership. Practicing engineers, geoscientists and hydrologists who are comfortable with both disciplines can understand and model geosystems much more accurately. With both sets of tools at their disposal, professionals can have much greater success in solving difficult interwell property distribution problems—and achieving higher recovery.
This text has two goals: to help practicing professionals and students understand the diagnostic potential of statistics for modeling fluid flow in reservoirs and to introduce the important features of statistical modeling.
The book first presents extensive coverage of diagnostic topics from the geoscientists point of view. This coverage includes histograms, averages, and confidence intervals.