Automatic fracture density update using smart well data and artificial neural networks

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-347

  Al Anazi, A ^a   Babadagli, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ANN; Fracture networks; Production data; Smart wells; Static data; Static model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SOURCE; DOWNHOLES; FLOW-SENSORS; FORWARD SELECTION; FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HYPOTHETICAL MODELS; INPUT DATAS; INTELLIGENT WELLS; INVERSE MODELING; PREDICTION MODEL; PRODUCTION DATA; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE ERRORS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SMART WELLS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC MODEL; WELL LOGS; WELL PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; WELL LOGGING;

WELL STIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WELL; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 75749155353     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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