Artificial Neural Networks Usefulness In Oil, Gas and Petroleum Engineering

Fractures provide the place for oil and gas to be reserved and they also can provide the pathway for them to move into the well, so having a proper knowledge of them is essential and every year the companies try to improve the existed softwares in this technology. In this work, the new technique is introduced to be added as a new application to the existed softwares such as Petrel and geoframe softwares. The data used in this work are image logs and the other geological logs data of tree wells located in Gachsaran field, wells number GS-A, GS-B and GS-C. The new technique by using the feed-forward artificial neural networks (ANN) with back-propagation learning rule can predict the fracture dip data of the third well using the data from the other 2 wells. The result obtained showed that the ANN model can simulate the relationship between fractures dips in these 3 wells which the multiple R of training and test sets for the ANN model is 0.95099 and 0.912197, respectively.

Keywords:

Fracture characterization and modelling technology , Oil and gas reservoirs , Feed-forward artificial neural networks , Fractures dip