Parameter Evaluations for Vertical Wells with Hydraulic Fracture Using Well-Testing and Deep Learning Method
Abstract The reliability of well-testing interpretation largely depends on the experience of reservoir engineers, which make the issue of non-unique solution serious and increase its application threshold. Virtually, deep learning assistive techniques are good strategies in well-testing interpretation. Although some work has been done based on automatic interpretation techniques, there is still a lack of an automatic interpretation model with wide applicability and fast interpretation on parameter evaluation of vertically fractured well. To improve this situation and make the well-testing interpretation easier to apply, this paper uses deep learning methods to build an automatic interpretation model of well-testing data for vertically fractured well. The model can automatically identify the corresponding parameters. The results in the validation set show that the median relative error of the curve parameter inversion is less than 10%. In addition, the accuracy of parameter prediction can be improved by increasing the weight of some important parameters in deep learning model training, such as permeability and fracture half-length. Finally, the automatic interpretation model is tested on a field case. The test results prove that the model has high accuracy and interpretation speed.