Prediction and Optimization of WAG Flooding by Using LSTM Neural Network Model in Middle East Carbonate ReservoirShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Society of Petroleum Engineers - Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, ADIP 2021, Society of Petroleum Engineers , 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Production prediction continues to play an increasingly significant role in reservoir development adjustment and optimization, especially in water-alternating-gas (WAG) flooding. As artificial intelligence continues to develop, data-driven machine learning method can establish a robust model based on massive data to clarify development risks and challenges, predict development dynamic characteristics in advance. This study gathers over 15 years actual data from targeted carbonate reservoir and establishes a robust Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network prediction model based on correlation analysis, data cleaning, feature variables selection, hyper-parameters optimization and model evaluation to forecast oil production, gas-oil ratio (GOR), and water cut (WC) of WAG flooding. In comparison to traditional reservoir numerical simulation (RNS), LSTM neural networks have a huge advantage in terms of computational efficiency and prediction accuracy. The calculation time of LSTM method is 864% less than reservoir numerical simulation method, while prediction error of LSTM method is 261% less than RNS method. We classify producers into three types based on the prediction results and propose optimization measures aimed at the risks and challenges they faced. Field implementation indicates promising outcome with better reservoir support, lower GOR, lower WC, and stabler oil production. This study provides a novel direction for application of artificial intelligence in WAG flooding development and optimization.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Society of Petroleum Engineers , 2021.
Keywords [en]
Computational efficiency, Floods, Large dataset, Long short-term memory, Numerical methods, Numerical models, Reservoirs (water), Risk assessment, Carbonate reservoir, Gas flooding, Gas oil ratios, Model-based OPC, Numerical simulation method, Oil-production, Optimisations, Reservoir numerical simulation, Water alternating gas, Water cuts, Forecasting
National Category
Water Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316263DOI: 10.2118/207584-MSScopus ID: 2-s2.0-85127009749OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316263DiVA, id: diva2:1688878
Conference
2021 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, ADIP 2021, 15 November 2021 through 18 November 2021
Note
Part of book: 978-1-61399-834-2
QC 20220819
2022-08-192022-08-192024-01-09Bibliographically approved