A critical review on intelligent optimization algorithms and surrogate models for conventional and unconventional reservoir production optimization

L Wang, Y Yao, X Luo, CD Adenutsi, G Zhao, F Lai - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Aiming to find the most suitable development schemes of conventional and unconventional
reservoirs for maximum energy supply or economic benefits, reservoir production …

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 …

Black hole particle swarm optimization for well placement optimization

A Harb, H Kassem, K Ghorayeb - Computational Geosciences, 2020 - Springer
Well placement optimization is a very challenging task in field development planning as it
involves a large number of optimization variables resulting from the multidimensional space …

Self-adapt reservoir clusterization method to enhance robustness of well placement optimization

D Janiga, R Czarnota, J Stopa… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the most crucial tasks in hydrocarbon field development, it is an optimal wells
placement. Simulation-based well placement optimization can be intricate to implement or …

Optimal producer well placement and multiperiod production scheduling using surrogate modeling

A Moolya, A Rodríguez-Martínez… - Computers & Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main objective of this paper is to determine the optimal placement of oilfield producer
wells while accounting for surface infrastructure constraints. To accomplish this objective, we …

Well placement optimization using an analytical formula-based objective function and cat swarm optimization algorithm

H Chen, Q Feng, X Zhang, S Wang, W Zhou… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Well placement optimization is a crucial and complex task in oil field development. Well
placement is usually optimized by coupling reservoir numerical simulator with optimization …

Effective treatment of geometric constraints in derivative-free well placement optimization

A Zou, T Ye, O Volkov, LJ Durlofsky - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A robust workflow for optimizing the placement of multiple deviated wells subject to
challenging geometric constraints is presented and applied. The workflow entails the use of …

Ensemble-based optimization of hydraulically fractured horizontal well placement in shale gas reservoir through Hough transform parameterization

L Xue, SH Gu, XE Jiang, YT Liu, C Yang - Petroleum Science, 2021 - Springer
Shale gas reservoirs have been successfully developed due to the advancement of the
horizontal well drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing techniques. However, the …

Application of hybrid adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system in well placement optimization

A Karkevandi-Talkhooncheh, M Sharifi… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Well placement optimization as a key factor in field development, is one of the reservoir
management cycles, which aims to economize oil and gas production from the reservoir …

[HTML][HTML] A novel approach to optimising well trajectory in heterogeneous reservoirs based on the fast-marching method

Z Lyu, Q Lei, L Yang, C Heaney, X Song… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
To achieve efficient recovery of subsurface energy resources, a suitable trajectory needs to
be identified for the production well. In this study, a new approach is presented for …