Machine learning for drilling applications: A review

R Zhong, C Salehi, R Johnson Jr - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past several decades, machine learning has gained increasing interest in the oil and
gas industry. This paper presents a comprehensive review of machine learning studies for …

Machine learning methods applied to drilling rate of penetration prediction and optimization-A review

LFFM Barbosa, A Nascimento, MH Mathias… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drilling wells in challenging oil/gas environments implies in large capital expenditure on
wellbore's construction. In order to optimize the drilling related operation, real-time decisions …

Application of hybrid artificial neural networks for predicting rate of penetration (ROP): A case study from Marun oil field

SB Ashrafi, M Anemangely, M Sabah… - Journal of petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rate of Penetration (ROP) can be considered as a crucial factor in optimization and cost
minimization of drilling operations. In order to predict ROP with satisfactory precision, some …

Prediction of drilling rate of penetration (ROP) using hybrid support vector regression: A case study on the Shennongjia area, Central China

C Gan, WH Cao, M Wu, X Chen, YL Hu, KZ Liu… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rate of penetration (ROP) prediction is crucial for the optimization and control in drilling
process due to its vital role in maximizing the drilling efficiency. This paper proposes a novel …

Real-time prediction of rate of penetration by combining attention-based gated recurrent unit network and fully connected neural networks

C Zhang, X Song, Y Su, G Li - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Data-driven models are widely used to predict rate of penetration. However, there are still
challenges on real-time predictions considering influences of formation properties and bit …

Half a century experience in rate of penetration management: Application of machine learning methods and optimization algorithms-A review

M Najjarpour, H Jalalifar… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rate of penetration (ROP) management is a matter of importance in drilling operations and it
has been considered in different studies. Different machine learning methods such as …

Prediction of the rate of penetration in offshore large-scale cluster extended reach wells drilling based on machine learning and big-data techniques

X Chen, C Weng, X Du, J Yang, D Gao, R Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-scale cluster extended reach wells (ERWs) are usually drilled from one platform to
target distant multiple reservoirs in offshore oil & gas development. Due to the complicated …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid data driven drilling and rate of penetration optimization

AM Alali, MF Abughaban, BM Aman… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Optimizing the drilling process for cost and efficiency requires faster drilling with a higher
rate of penetration (ROP). A high ROP usually indicates fast and cost-efficient drilling …

Using machine learning methods to identify coal pay zones from drilling and logging-while-drilling (LWD) data

R Zhong, RL Johnson Jr, Z Chen - Spe Journal, 2020 - onepetro.org
Accurate coal identification is critical in coal seam gas (CSG)(also known as coalbed
methane or CBM) developments because it determines well completion design and directly …

Fully coupled end-to-end drilling optimization model using machine learning

C Hegde, M Pyrcz, H Millwater, H Daigle… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drilling optimization has been studied extensively given its impact on an oil and gas project–
especially in a low-price environment. This is generally approached by optimizing the rate of …