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"Geostatistical Prediction of Sand Distribution of Gas Reservoir in Jilin, China", Li-Wei Qiu ,SINOPEC, An-Ping Yang, Applied Computer Engineering, Sheng-Xiang Long and Zhi-Jiang Kang, SINOPEC, SPE84055, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition to be held  in Denver, Colorado,5-8 October 2003 .

"The Use of an Integrated Approach in Estimation of Water Saturation and Free Water Level in Tight Gas Reservoirs: Case Studies";, Sheng Ding and Tai Pham, SPE, Elpaso Production Company, AnPing Yang, SPE, Applied Computer Engineering, SPE84390, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Denver, Colorado, 5-8 October 2003 .

"Fault Identification and Modeling for Production Enhancement", An-Ping Yang , SPE; J. C. Eacmen, Jr., ChevronTexaco, SPE83495, SPE Western Regional/AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting held in LONG Beach, California, U.S.A., 19-24 May 2003.

"Applying Curvature and Fracture Analysis for the Placement of Horizontal Wells - Example from the Mabee (San Andres) Reservoir, Texas", Yuan Qiu, Mark Holtz, and Anping Yang, SPE 70010, 2001 SPE Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference.

"Geostatistical Modeling of Porosity with Seismic Data - A Case History", A.P. Yang, T.G. Harris, and C. Li, AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on Applied Reservoir Characterization Using Geostatistics, Dec. 3-6, 2000, The Woodlands, Texas. See Case1 in Case Studies.

"Geostatistical Evaluation of QHD 32-6 Oil Field: a DRO in China", Tai-chang Shih, An-Ping Yang, Charles T. Cheng, Youli Quan, Gou Fan Lu, Ben Wang, D. Lee Martin, and Eric M. Hussey, SPE 48879, SPE International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, Beijing, China, 2-6 November 1998

"Simulation of a CO2 Flood in the Slaughter Field with Geostatistical Reservoir Characterization", Prieditis, J., Yang, A.P., and Wilkins, M.D., SPE 49168, SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27-30, 1998

"Integration of Production History in Geostatistical Reservoir Description", An-Ping Yang, SPE 39741, 1998 SPE Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Modeling for Asset Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 23-24, 1998

"Flexible Spectral Methods for the Generation of Random Fields with Power-Law Semivariograms", Johannes Bruining, Diederik van Batenburg, Larry W. Lake, and An-Ping Yang, Mathematical Geology, Vol. 29, No. 6, 1997

"Integrated Reservoir Description from Seismic, Well Log, to Production Data", An-Ping Yang, SPE 38381, SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Casper, Wyoming, U.S.A., May 18-21, 1997

"Reservoir Characterization by Integrating Well Data and Seismic Attributes", An-Ping Yang, Yaming Gao, and Steve Henry, SPE 30563, SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Dallas, U.S.A., October 22-25, 1995

"Application of Well Production Data to Reservoir Characterization", Huade Yang, Yaming Gao, and An-Ping Yang, SPE 30708, SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Dallas, U.S.A., October 22-25, 1995

"Mapping Temperature with Geostatistics Can Help Identify Steam-Chest and Optimize Oil Production", An-Ping Yang, SPE 30254, SPE International Heavy Oil Symposium, Calgary, Canada, June 19-21, 1995

"Normalizing Neutron Logs to Porosity for Carbonates", An-Ping Yang, International Symposium on Well-Logging Technology, Xian, China, May 17-20, 1994

"New Geostatistical Methods for Mapping Faults with Well Logs", An-Ping Yang, Proceedings Indonesian Petroleum Association, Twenty Second Annual Convention, October 12-14, 1993

"Modelling Faults with Geostatistical Gridding", An-Ping Yang, Third CODATA conference on Geomathematics and Geostatistics, I.T.C. Enschede, the Netherlands, June 7-11, 1993

"Three Dimensional Conditional Simulation of Schneider (Buda) Field", R.D. Ravnaas, R.F. Strickland, L.W. Lake, A.P. Yang, Mohammad Malik, D.R. Prezbindowski, and Tom Mairs, SPE 23970, SPE Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, Midland, Texas, U.S.A., March 19-20, 1992

"A Geostatistical Well Correlation Method That Can Identify Faults", An-Ping Yang, SPE 22448, SPE International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, Beijing, China, March 24-27, 1992

"A Geostatistical Interpolation Method from only Two or Three Wells", An-Ping Yang, SPE 22346, SPE International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, Beijing, China, March 24-27, 1992

"The Accuracy of Autocorrelation Estimates", An-Ping Yang and Larry. W. Lake, In Situ, 12(4), 227-274 (1988-1989)