Predicting temperature profiles in producing oil wells using artificial neural networks

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1999-January, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Farshad, F ^a   Garber, J D ^a   Lorde, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CORROSION; FORECASTING; GASOLINE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NEURAL NETWORKS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; MEASURED TEMPERATURES; NETWORK-BASED MODELING; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

FLOWING WELLS;

EID: 84940883831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/53738-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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