Throughout my career, I have witnessed some funny moments concerning reservoir modeling and history matching. Here, I will talk about two of them. The first one is an adaptation of something I read: “History matching is the process of torturing a model until it confesses.” Despite the obvious anecdotal nature, this sentence is actually an interesting analogy. Torture makes the victim say anything you want to hear, even if it is not the truth.
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