Enhanced group method of data handling (GMDH) for permeability prediction based on the modified Levenberg Marquardt technique from well log data

Alvin K. Mulashani, Chuanbo Shen, Baraka M. Nkurlu, Christopher N. Mkono and Martin Kawamala

Energy, 2022, vol. 239, issue PA

Abstract: Permeability is the key variable for reservoir characterization used for estimating the flow patterns and volume of hydrocarbons. Modern computer advancement has highlighted the use of machine learning approaches such as group method of data handling (GMDH) in predicting permeability. However, the widely employed GMDH has intrinsic problems in its application. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present an enhanced GMDH based modified Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) as an improved alternative to conventional GMDH in predicting permeability from well logs. The study used natural gamma-ray, standard resolution formation density, limited effective porosity, shale volume of rock, and thermal neutron porosity well logs as input variables. Results show that an enhanced method has a reasonable reduction in processing time with high accuracy. Compared to conventional GMDH and backpropagation neural networks (BPNN), the GMDH-LM used 30% less computation time and performed excellently during training with the least error values of 0.092 and 0.018 for RMSE and MAE. Likewise, good results were observed during testing, obtaining the least error values of 0.679 and 0.056 for RMSE and MAE respectively. The modified generalization performance of GMDH-LM makes it an improved form of GMDH and can be adopted as an improved alternative in predicting permeability.

Keywords: Artificial neural network; permeability; Well logs; Group method of data handling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121915

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