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nonlinear relations and performs well in variables. A principal component analysis was
situations in which the mathematical model carried out in order to reduce the dimension of
related to the problem to be solved is very data space variables. The variables were chosen
complex to obtain (Haykin, 1999; Mohaghegh, among seismic attributes, well logs and
2000). geological properties of reservoir. This strategy
Artificial neural networks are becoming has the advantage of assigning neural networks
increasingly popular in areas such as geology for each spatial region of the reservoir for more
and geophysics. They are used, for instance, in accuracy in prediction.
the characterization of petroleum reservoirs, for In general, the prediction of geological
geological properties forecasting and well logs properties by neural networks or by any other
prediction, for seismic inversion and fractures prediction model are subject to errors due to
modeling (Mohaghegh and Ameri, 1995; Van possible criteria disregarded in the forecast, such
der Baan and Jutten, 2000; Calderón-Macías et as geological faults, fractures, data quality, very
al., 2000; Mohaghegh, 2005; Baddari et al. thin facies layers and heterogeneity in the field.
(2010) and Darabi et al., 2010). To correct possible errors in the prediction, a
Huang et al. (1996) used back-propagation system with fuzzy logic is used to infer the result
artificial neural networks (BP-ANN) to model of the prediction model.
the interrelations between spatial position, six Lin and Cunningha (1995) have proposed the
different well logs, and permeability. The BP- use of fuzzy logic to model the identification of
ANN produced permeability values that nonlinear systems. Subsequently, other studies
compared well to measured values in the cored used this strategy for reservoir characterization
intervals. Fung et al. (1996) used neural (Bhuiyan, 2001; Weiss et al., 2001). Lim and
networks and Learning Vector Quantization Kim (2004) proposed a model that uses fuzzy
(LVQ) for forecasting rock properties. Saggaf et logic to select the best reservoir properties,
al. (2003) used BP-NN to estimate the which will be used by the neural network for the
distribution of reservoir porosity using 3D prediction of permeability and porosity. Taghavi
seismic in the field of Ghawar, Saudi Arabia. (2005) used linear regression and fuzzy logic in
Wang et al. (1998) modeled porosity the prediction of permeability and concluded that
distribution through the integration of techniques the fuzzy logic produced better results.
of neural networks and kriging in the field of Kadkhodaie-Ilkhchi et al. (2009) used seismic
A'nan, north of China. The association of attributes as decision variables in a committee
geostatistics and neural network can also be fuzzy inference system for estimating water
found in Niu et al. (2000) and Nakayama (2000). saturation and porosity parameters. The model
Studies involving the relation between reservoir proposed in this paper is divided in two stages.
properties and seismic attributes to estimate 3D The first stage is the prediction of properties
reservoir parameters can be found in Arzuman using neural networks and the second stage is to
(2009). Although seismic attributes assist in use fuzzy logic to correct possible errors in the
predicting the geological properties, they add prediction, using expert knowledge. Next, we
more complexity to the forecasting operation, present the theoretical framework of the theories
due to nonlinearities of seismic attributes and used herein such as neural networks, fuzzy logic
large amount of seismic 3D data. and principal component analysis. The proposed
Most studies mentioned above use a single method is described afterwards followed by the
neural network for predicting properties in the description of the application of the method to
well and 3D field. This paper proposes a model predict sonic logs at a field case. Finally, we
of multi-neural networks in which each neural present some conclusions regarding the method,
network is designed for each geological zone of its potential and possible developments for its
the subsurface. For this purpose, a study of the application are drawn.
different types of input variables in each neural
network appropriate for each zone was carried
out. This study implied working with many
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2 THEORY Neural network modeling process comprises
three basic steps related to experimental data:
2.1 Neural Networks training, testing and predicting. Network training
is the process of adjusting the network
The Rumelhart-Hinton-Williams multilayer connection weight so that explanatory and
network that we consider here is a feed-forward response values match the data as closely as
type network with connections between possible. Testing data are used for checking the
adjoining layers only. Networks generally have training. Finally, validating data are used for
hidden layers between the input and output studing model accuracy. A comprehensive
layers. Each layer consists of computational reference on neural networks can be found in
units as it can be seen in Figure 1. Haykin (1999).
The input-output relationship of each unit is
represented by inputs 𝑥𝑖 , output 𝑦, connection 2.2 Fuzzy Logic
weights 𝑤𝑖 , threshold 𝜃, and differentiable
function 𝜑 as follows: Fuzzy logic is a logic based on fuzzy set theory
which aims to model the approximate mode of
𝑦 = 𝜑(∑𝑘𝑖=1 𝑤𝑖 𝑥𝑖 − 𝜃) (1) reasoning, mimicking human ability to make
decisions in an environment of uncertainty and
Usually, the function φ is called the activation imprecision (Zadeh, 1976; Pedrycz and Gomide,
function, which is a bounded and monotone 1998). It allows intelligent control and decision
differentiable function such as the sigmoid support systems to deal with imprecise
function represented by Equation (2), where 𝑎 is information. A fuzzy logic system is able to
the slope parameter of the function (Funahashi, simultaneously process numerical data and
1989). linguistic knowledge (Mendel, 1995). In fuzzy
set theory, each element may belong to a set of
1 degree (μ), which can take values ranging from
𝑓(𝑥) = (2)
1+𝑒 −𝑎𝑥 0 to 1. Each fuzzy set is represented by a
membership function (MF). MFs can present
The learning rule of the neural network is several types, such as Gaussian, triangular,
known as backpropagation algorithm trapezoidal and sigmoidal, see Figure 2.
(Rumelhart et al., 1986) and consists in the use
of the gradient descent method to find a set of
weights so that the error between the desired
output and the output signal network is
minimized.
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using fuzzy logic. A FIS has 4 main parts, The process of Mamdani method is
presented in Figure 2, which are (a) illustrated in Figure 4 and more details on this
fuzzification, (b) rules, (c) inference engine and method can be obtained from Kadkhodaie-
(d) defuzzification. Ilkhchi (2009).
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petroleum reservoirs. Figure 5 shows the block
diagram of the proposed model. The model is
divided into three steps. The first step is called
data preparation; it includes the division of the
model field in 𝑛 geological zones and the
evaluation of decision variables that the neural
network will use in predicting properties in each
zone. The decision variables include the seismic
attributes due to its 3D nature (seismic cube),
which helps predicting properties (Taner, 2001),
the facies observed at the drilled wells that
provide the geological lithology in each zone, the
well log at drilled wells and the normalized
coordinates x, y, z for each well. Finally, data
dimensionality is reduced using PCA. Figure 6. Neural Networks Strategy.
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In this first example, the objective is to design according to equation 3, where 𝑥 is the value of
the proposed model to predict the cube of property DTC in well validation 𝑝4 , 𝑥̂ is the DTC
compressional sonic log, DTC, in the field. As estimated by the proposed model. Using this
explained in the previous section, the set of input error measure, a MAPE of 6.10% was obtained.
variables for each neural network is selected
|𝑥−𝑥̂|
using studies such as Taner (2000), Arzuman 𝑀𝐴𝑃𝐸 = × 100 (3)
𝑥
(2009) and Azevedo et al. (2009) that show the
usefulness of each seismic attribute for detecting The same exercise was done for the shear
geological properties. The selected variables are sonic log, DTS, following the same procedure.
presented in Table 1, where A is amplitude, AI is Table 2 shows the input variables for the neural
the acoustic impedance, IV is interval velocity, F networks. The result of the prediction model is
is the facies and ‖𝑧‖ is the normalization of shown in Figure 8, with a MAPE regarding well
depth. validation of 6.80%.
The input variables of each network is shown
in Table 1 and the results of the proposed model Table 2. Selecting inputs by neural networks - DTS.
of DTC prediction in the 3D field is shown in Zone NN A AI IV F ‖𝑍‖
Figure 7, where the vertical arrow is the location
of the well validation 𝑝4 1 1 X - X X X
2 2 X X - X X
3 3 - X X X X
4 4 X X - X X
Table 1. Selecting inputs by neural networks - DTC. 5 5 - X X X X
Zone NN A AI IV F ‖𝑍‖ 6 6 - X X X X
7 7 X X - X X
1 1 X - X X X
2 2 X - X X X
3 3 X - X X X
4 4 X X - X X
5 5 - X X X X
6 6 - X X X X
7 7 X X - X X
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Ray and DTS, were generated as follows: Applying the fuzzy system in prediction made
by the neural network in thinner layers can
1. If RG is low and RHOB is high then DTS is reduce the approximation error of the neural
low. network. This can be seen in Figure 11. Using
2. If RG is high and RHOB is medium then this strategy, the MAPE is reduced to 5.94%.
DTS is medium.
3. If RG is low and RHOB is medium then DTS
is medium.
5 CONCLUSIONS
Figure 9. Fuzzy Sets Gamma Ray, respectively low,
medium and high GR. This paper presents a method for 3D geological
modeling of oil fields using artificial neural
The fuzzy system accepts two inputs: the networks for forecasting geological properties
Gamma Ray GR and Resistivity RHOB. Then, and a system of fuzzy logic to improve the
the input data are normalized (fuzzification prediction performance.
step), followed by the application of fuzzy The proposal for designing one neural
inference system and denormalization of data network for each different geological unit
output (desfuzzication), resulting in a DTS real improves the evaluation of the performance of
value. This process can be seen in Figure 10. each neural network as well as facilitates the
selection of input parameters for each geological
zone. The use of fuzzy logic in order to make the
prediction of properties more accurate indicated
that the technique is quite promising. As future
work, it is proposed to study de fuzzy inference
rules that can help predict specific properties;
possibly rules that include the degree of rock
fracturing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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