Prediction Of Petroleum Reservoir Properties Using Nonlinear Feature Selection And Ensembles Of Computational Intelligence Techniques
Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have been applied in the prediction of various petroleum reservoir properties but with ample room for improvement. The major objective of the reservoir characterization process is to provide accurate estimates of the reservoir properties to populate full...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9327/1/Fatai%20Adesina%20Anifowose%20ft.pdf |
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| Summary: | Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have been applied in the prediction of various
petroleum reservoir properties but with ample room for improvement. The major objective of
the reservoir characterization process is to provide accurate estimates of the reservoir
properties to populate full-field simulation models. The recent use of advanced and
sophisticated data acquisition tools has led to a data explosion accompanied by very high
dimensional data and increased uncertainties. There is the need for robust techniques that will
utilize the strengths of some to overcome the weaknesses of others to produce the best results.
Despite the persistent quest for better prediction accuracies in the prediction of petroleum
reservoir properties, the application of advanced CI methodologies of hybrids and ensembles
has either been slowly embraced or not adequately applied.
In this thesis, new non-linear feature-selection assisted methods and ensemble learning
models are proposed. The algorithms were implemented with optimized tuning parameters
and validated with real-life porosity and permeability datasets obtained from diverse and
heterogeneous petroleum reservoirs after they have passed on testing them with a benchmark
dataset from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. Common metrics were used to evaluate
the performance of the proposed models. The standard machine learning paradigm of
dividing datasets into training and testing subsets was employed.
When implemented on real petroleum engineering datasets, the proposed Functional
Networks-Support Vector Machine assisted model attained the highest R-Square performance
of 0.96 and 0.87 on the porosity and permeability datasets respectively (compared to the
benchmark of 0.90 and 0.82 respectively) and a total execution time of less than 5 seconds.
The ensemble models of Artificial Neural Networks with sequentially searched number of
hidden neurons, Support Vector Regression with diverse number of the regularization parameter and Extreme Learning Machine assisted with feature selection and randomized
assignment of the number of hidden attained the highest R-Square of 0.99 on the porosity and
permeability datasets respectively (compared to the benchmark of 0.89 and 0.90
respectively). A thorough analysis of the comparative results showed that our proposed
methods and algorithms outperformed the benchmarks.
It was concluded that the proposed assisted and ensemble models will significantly increase
petroleum exploration efficiency. A number of hybrid and ensemble possibilities have been
recommended for future study. |
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