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The material balance equation was first formulated by Schilthuis14 and introduced in 1936. Until well into the 1950s it was the only means of determining the production drive mechanism in oil and gas reservoirs, and of predicting their behaviour.
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Chierici, G.L. (1994). The Material Balance Equation. In: Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02964-0_10
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