Well-Logging Prediction Based on Hybrid Neural Network Model

Lei Wu, Zhenzhen Dong, Weirong Li, Cheng Jing and Bochao Qu
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Lei Wu: Petroleum Engineering Department, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
Zhenzhen Dong: Petroleum Engineering Department, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
Weirong Li: Petroleum Engineering Department, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
Cheng Jing: Petroleum Engineering Department, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
Bochao Qu: Petroleum Engineering Department, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 24, 1-19

Abstract: Well-logging is an important formation characterization and resource evaluation method in oil and gas exploration and development. However, there has been a shortage of well-logging data because Well-logging can only be measured by expensive and time-consuming field tests. In this study, we aimed to find effective machine learning techniques for well-logging data prediction, considering the temporal and spatial characteristics of well-logging data. To achieve this goal, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and the long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks were combined to extract the spatial and temporal features of well-logging data, and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm was used to determine hyperparameters of the optimal CNN-LSTM architecture to predict logging curves in this study. We applied the proposed CNN-LSTM-PSO model, along with support vector regression, gradient-boosting regression, CNN-PSO, and LSTM-PSO models, to forecast photoelectric effect (PE) logs from other logs of the target well, and from logs of adjacent wells. Among the applied algorithms, the proposed CNN-LSTM-PSO model generated the best prediction of PE logs because it fully considers the spatio-temporal information of other well-logging curves. The prediction accuracy of the PE log using logs of the adjacent wells was not as good as that using the other well-logging data of the target well itself, due to geological uncertainties between the target well and adjacent wells. The results also show that the prediction accuracy of the models can be significantly improved with the PSO algorithm. The proposed CNN-LSTM-PSO model was found to enable reliable and efficient Well-logging prediction for existing and new drilled wells; further, as the reservoir complexity increases, the proxy model should be able to reduce the optimization time dramatically.

Keywords: well-logging; convolutional neural network; long short-term memory; particle swarm optimization; hybrid model; deep learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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