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Petroleum Forecasts under Risk and Uncertainty

Viewable copy of the PowerPoint slides,
excepting several figures copied from books:

           Sipes20080925.pdf

Books and paper referred to in the presentation:

Mandelbrot, Benoit, 1982, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W. H. Freeman, New York, 468 p.

Mandelbrot, Benoit, and Richard L. Hudson, 2004, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward, Basic Books, New York, 328 p.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, New York, 366 p.

Schuyler, John and Steven M. Hochanadel, 1991, “Simulation Demonstrates Economics of Minnelusa Polymer Floods,” Oil & Gas Journal, May 27, 1991, pp. 90-93.

Additional selected bibliography
from John Schuyler     bibljs.htm

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