Facies Classification: Combining Domain Knowledge with Machine Learning Solutions

Autor: H. Williams, S. Hageraats-Ponomareva, T. Krasznavolgyi, W. Epping, R. Lamens, S. Davey, J. Przybysz-Jarnut, R. Newport, E. Link
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: First EAGE Digitalization Conference and Exhibition.
Popis: Summary Automated facies identification workflows which use Machine Learning (ML) are publicly available but perform sub-optimally (accuracy in the order of 60%) due to a lack of integration with geological domain knowledge. Existing tools consider well log values mostly on a depth-by-depth basis, using only very basic feature engineering. Our solution aims to integrate ML with well-established geoscience principles (also referred to as geo-rules) such as sequence stratigraphy, proximal-distal trends, and log-trend patterns. Geological knowledge is incorporated into ML to improve the quality and robustness of facies prediction and is captured as additional geologically-inspired features added to the dataset. These features include the mean value and other derived properties of intervals, density-neutron separation, segmentation and wavelet transform. All ML algorithms tested with this augmented set of features show significant improvement in performance metrics as compared to solutions with basic logs only.
Databáze: OpenAIRE