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Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) Prediction for Eagle Ford Shale Using Integrated Datasets and Artificial Neural Networks

C. Özgen Karacan (), Steven T. Anderson and Steven M. Cahan
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C. Özgen Karacan: U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA
Steven T. Anderson: U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA
Steven M. Cahan: U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-21

Abstract: The estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) is an important parameter for forecasting oil and gas production and informing decisions regarding field development strategies. In this study, we combined site-specific geologic, completion, and operational parameters with the predictive capabilities of machine learning (ML) models to predict EURs of the wells for the Eagle Ford Marl Continuous Oil Assessment Unit. We developed an extensive dataset of wells that have produced from the lower and upper Eagle Ford Shale intervals and reduced the model complexity using principal component analysis. We tested the ML models and estimated the sensitivities of ML-predicted EURs to changes in the values of different input variables. The results of applying the optimized ML model to the Eagle Ford suggest that the approach developed in this study could be promising. The ML estimates of the EURs fit the DCA-based values with an R 2 ~ 0.9 and a mean absolute error of ~36 × 10 3 bbl. In the lower Eagle Ford Shale, the EUR estimates were found to be most sensitive to changes in porosity, net thickness of the interval, clay volume, and the API gravity of the oil; and that in the upper Eagle Ford Shale they were most sensitive to changes in the total organic carbon and water saturation, which suggests that it could be important to consider these parameters in assessing these intervals or close analogs.

Keywords: estimated ultimate recovery; Eagle Ford Shale; machine learning; artificial neural networks (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: 2025
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