A holistic review on artificial intelligence techniques for well placement optimization problem

J Islam, PM Vasant, BM Negash, MB Laruccia… - … in engineering software, 2020 - Elsevier
Well placement optimization is one of the major challenging factors in the field development
process of oil and gas industry. The objective function of well placement optimization is …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient well placement optimization based on theory-guided convolutional neural network

N Wang, H Chang, D Zhang, L Xue, Y Chen - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Well placement optimization is important in reservoir management, but it is challenging to
implement due to the high-dimensional solution space and large number of reservoir …

A comparative evaluation of global search algorithms in black box optimization of oil production: A case study on Brugge field

T Foroud, A Baradaran, A Seifi - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We evaluate the application of eight different global search algorithms to the optimization of
oil production from a mature field. Our focus is on algorithms that treat the reservoir simulator …

A comprehensive evaluation of dimension-reduction approaches in optimization of well rates

AA Awotunde - SPE Journal, 2019 - onepetro.org
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of six dimension‐reduction approaches. The
approaches considered are the constant‐control (Const) approach, the piecewise‐constant …

A maximum entropy deep reinforcement learning method for sequential well placement optimization using multi-discrete action spaces

K Zhang, Z Sun, L Zhang, G Xin, Z Wang… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Well placement optimization is a crucial method to solve the planar conflicts in reservoir
development, mainly to determine the optimal well locations and drilling sequence to …

Analysis of Key Sweetspot Identification Methods and Their Significance for Hydrocarbon Well Placement

MA Al-Ismael, AM Al-Baiz - SPE Gas & Oil Technology Showcase and …, 2023 - onepetro.org
Sweetspot identification methods are of significant value in optimizing well placement in
reservoir simulation studies. These methods vary in their approaches due to the wide …

A closer look at differential evolution for the optimal well placement problem

GLC Carosio, TD Humphries, RD Haynes… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Energy demand has increased considerably with the growth of world population, increasing
the interest in the hydrocarbon reservoir management problem. Companies are concerned …

Well Placement Optimization Using Mixed Integer Programming

FF Abouheit, MA Al-Ismael, RR Baig - SPE Symposium: Production …, 2024 - onepetro.org
Placement and design of wells in high potential regions within hydrocarbon reservoirs is a
critical step in field development planning. Identification of high potential regions, serving as …