March 2019

Prediction of the water saturation around wells with bottom water drive using artificial neural networks

This study is concerned with the water coning phenomenon that takes place around production wells of hydrocarbon reservoirs. In this paper, the development of artificial neural networks to predict the water saturation buildup around vertical and horizontal wells with a good level of accuracy is described. In the development of expert systems, it is assumed that water encroachment originates from an active aquifer which...

Author(s): Muhammad Alrumah and Turgay Ertekin  

March 2019

Quantitative research on the influence of interlayer to thermal recovery horizontal wells in thick oil reservoir

At present, the effect of different development patterns of interlayer like the length and the longitudinal position of interlayer on thermal recovery modes such as steam stimulation (CSS) and steam flooding (SF) is still a qualitative understanding, and there is no systematic study yet. Therefore, it is difficult to control the thermal production of thick oil reservoirs according to different interlayer patterns. In...

Author(s): Dong Liu, Zong-Bin Liu, Jun-Ting Zhang, Jian-Min Zhu and Li-Lei Wang