Synthesizing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Outputs for Clastic Rocks Using Machine Learning Methods, Examples from North West Shelf and Perth Basin, Western Australia

Reza Rezaee
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Reza Rezaee: Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6151, Australia

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging tool can provide important rock and fluid properties that are necessary for a reliable reservoir evaluation. Pore size distribution based on T 2 relaxation time and resulting permeability are among those parameters that cannot be provided by conventional logging tools. For wells drilled before the 1990s and for many recent wells there is no NMR data available due to the tool availability and the logging cost, respectively. This study used a large database of combinable magnetic resonance (CMR) to assess the performance of several well-known machine learning (ML) methods to generate some of the NMR tool’s outputs for clastic rocks using typical well-logs as inputs. NMR tool’s outputs, such as clay bound water (CBW), irreducible pore fluid (known as bulk volume irreducible, BVI), producible fluid (known as the free fluid index, FFI), logarithmic mean of T 2 relaxation time ( T 2 LM ), irreducible water saturation ( S wirr ), and permeability from Coates and SDR models were generated in this study. The well logs were collected from 14 wells of Western Australia (WA) within 3 offshore basins. About 80% of the data points were used for training and validation purposes and 20% of the whole data was kept as a blind set with no involvement in the training process to check the validity of the ML methods. The comparison of results shows that the Adaptive Boosting, known as AdaBoost model, has given the most impressive performance to predict CBW, FFI, permeability, T 2 LM , and S Wirr for the blind set with R2 more than 0.9. The accuracy of the ML model for the blind dataset suggests that the approach can be used to generate NMR tool outputs with high accuracy.

Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logs; CMR; log generation; clastic rocks; machine learning; AdaBoost; permeability; free fluid index; bulk volume irreducible; Western Australia (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: 2022
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