Selection of candidate wells for re-fracturing in tight gas sand reservoirs using fuzzy inference

Artun E., Kulga B.

PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT, vol.47, no.2, pp.413-420, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 47 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s1876-3804(20)60058-1
  • Journal Name: PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Compendex
  • Page Numbers: pp.413-420
  • Keywords: tight gas sands, re-fracturing, horizontal wells, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, fuzzy rule, hydraulic fracture quality, refracturing potential
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

An artificial-intelligence based decision-making protocol is developed for tight gas sands to identify re-fracturing wells and used in case studies. The methodology is based on fuzzy logic to deal with imprecision and subjectivity through mathematical representations of linguistic vagueness, and is a computing system based on the concepts of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy if-then rules, and fuzzy reasoning. Five indexes are used to characterize hydraulic fracture quality, reservoir characteristics, operational parameters, initial conditions, and production related to the selection of re-fracturing well, and each index includes 3 related parameters. The value of each index/parameter is grouped into three categories that are low, medium, and high. For each category, a trapezoidal membership function all related rules are defined. The related parameters of an index are input into the rule-based fuzzy-inference system to output value of the index. Another fuzzy-inference system is built with the reservoir index, operational index, initial condition index and production index as input parameters and re-fracturing potential index as output parameter to screen out re-fracturing wells. This approach was successfully validated using published data.