Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine

Permeability is a key parameter associated with the characterization of any hydrocarbon reservoir. In fact, it is not possible to have accurate solutions to many petroleum engineering problems without having accurate permeability value. The conventional methods for permeability determination are cor...

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Main Authors: Gholami, Raoof, Shahraki, A., Jamali Paghaleh, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24559
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author Gholami, Raoof
Shahraki, A.
Jamali Paghaleh, M.
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Shahraki, A.
Jamali Paghaleh, M.
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description Permeability is a key parameter associated with the characterization of any hydrocarbon reservoir. In fact, it is not possible to have accurate solutions to many petroleum engineering problems without having accurate permeability value. The conventional methods for permeability determination are core analysis and well test techniques. These methods are very expensive and time consuming. Therefore, attempts have usually been carried out to use artificial neural network for identification of the relationship between the well log data and core permeability. In this way, recent works on artificial intelligence techniques have led to introduce a robust machine learning methodology called support vector machine. This paper aims to utilize the SVM for predicting the permeability of three gas wells in the Southern Pars field. Obtained results of SVM showed that the correlation coefficient between core and predicted permeability is 0.97 for testing dataset. Comparing the result of SVM with that of a general regression neural network (GRNN) revealed that the SVM approach is faster and more accurate than the GRNN in prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability. Copyright © 2012 R. Gholami et al.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-245592017-09-13T15:11:56Z Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine Gholami, Raoof Shahraki, A. Jamali Paghaleh, M. Permeability is a key parameter associated with the characterization of any hydrocarbon reservoir. In fact, it is not possible to have accurate solutions to many petroleum engineering problems without having accurate permeability value. The conventional methods for permeability determination are core analysis and well test techniques. These methods are very expensive and time consuming. Therefore, attempts have usually been carried out to use artificial neural network for identification of the relationship between the well log data and core permeability. In this way, recent works on artificial intelligence techniques have led to introduce a robust machine learning methodology called support vector machine. This paper aims to utilize the SVM for predicting the permeability of three gas wells in the Southern Pars field. Obtained results of SVM showed that the correlation coefficient between core and predicted permeability is 0.97 for testing dataset. Comparing the result of SVM with that of a general regression neural network (GRNN) revealed that the SVM approach is faster and more accurate than the GRNN in prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability. Copyright © 2012 R. Gholami et al. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24559 10.1155/2012/670723 unknown
spellingShingle Gholami, Raoof
Shahraki, A.
Jamali Paghaleh, M.
Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title_full Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title_fullStr Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title_full_unstemmed Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title_short Prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
title_sort prediction of hydrocarbon reservoirs permeability using support vector machine
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24559