An integrated approach for estimating static Young’s modulus using artificial intelligence tools

Salaheldin Elkatatny, Zeeshan Tariq, Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Ibrahim Mohamed

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Abstract

Elastic parameters play a key role in managing the drilling and production operations. Determination of the elastic parameters is very important to avoid the hazards associated with the drilling operations, well placement, wellbore instability, completion design and also to maximize the reservoir productivity. A continuous core sample is required to be able to obtain a complete profile of the elastic parameters through the required formation. This operation is time-consuming and extremely expensive. The scope of this paper is to build an advanced and accurate model to predict the static Young’s modulus using artificial intelligence techniques based on the wireline logs (bulk density, compressional time, and shear time). More than 600 measured core data points from different fields were used to build the AI models. The obtained results showed that ANN is the best AI technique for estimating the static Young’s modulus with high accuracy [R2 was 0.92 and the average absolute percentage error (AAPE) was 5.3%] as compared with ANFIS and SVM. For the first time, an empirical correlation based on the weights and biases of the optimized ANN model was developed to determine the static Young’s modulus. The developed correlation outperformed the published correlations for static Young’s modulus prediction. The developed correlation enhanced the accuracy of predicting the static Young’s modulus. (R2 was 0.96 and AAPE was 6.2%.) The developed empirical correlation can help geomechanical engineers determine the static Young’s modulus where laboratory core samples are not available.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4123-4135
Number of pages13
JournalNeural Computing and Applications
Volume31
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2019
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software

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