Introduction
摘要
This chapter introduces the book and cites other relevant monographs and review papers. It briefly discusses the formation of and some properties of petroleum reservoirs and provides some background on the reservoir-characterization problem. After that, it presents a review and timeline for using ensemble methods to history-match petroleum reservoirsPetroleum reservoirs. It also briefly introduces localization methods as such methods have become essential in ensemble-based history matching before outlining the book’s content.