Title: Application of neural networks in synthetic log generation

Authors: Pham Son Tung; Nguyen Ninh Giang; Nguyen Dac Nhat; Ta Quoc Dung

Addresses: Department of Drilling and Production Engineering, Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Hochiminh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Vietnam ' Department of Drilling and Production Engineering, Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Hochiminh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Vietnam ' Department of Drilling and Production Engineering, Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Hochiminh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Vietnam ' Department of Drilling and Production Engineering, Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Hochiminh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Vietnam

Abstract: This paper aimed to study the application of artificial neural network in solving the problem of missing logs, a problem frequently encountered in petroleum industry. Firstly, fully connected neural network (feed-forward neural network) and long-short-term memory network (recurrent neural network) were used to generate synthetic logs in order to determine the most suitable approach to the missing log issue. Secondly, various methods of data pre-processing, such as normalisation, outlier, and principal component analysis, were also analysed so that their effect on the application of neural network in solving incomplete log problem can be evaluated. Finally, the influence of number of stratigraphy layers on the accuracy of using neural networks to solve missing logs problem was equally considered in this research. The results showed that the most accurate way to generate synthetic logs is to use feed-forward neural network for one stratigraphy layer while the data pre-processing method should be normalisation. [Received: August 17, 2020; Accepted: June 21, 2021]

Keywords: synthetic logs; neural networks; data pre-processing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2022.122644

International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, 2022 Vol.30 No.2, pp.157 - 174

Received: 14 Aug 2020
Accepted: 21 Jun 2021

Published online: 04 May 2022 *

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