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 …

Robust optimization of the locations and types of multiple wells using CNN based proxy models

J Kim, H Yang, J Choe - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
For the cost-effective optimization of well locations and types under geologic uncertainty,
proxy modeling or surrogate modeling of reservoir simulation is required. Recently, a …

Well placement optimization: A review

HA Mahmood, O Al-Fatlawi - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Optimization of well placement plays a considerable role in the production and maximizing
the net present value of the investment of oil field developments. However, the application of …

A new approach in well placement optimization using metaheuristic algorithms

S Raji, A Dehnamaki, B Somee… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The need to determine the optimum well placement which causes maximum cumulative oil
production has dramatically raised in recent years. Hence, there is a need for a reliable and …

An efficient infill well placement optimization approach for extra-low permeability reservoir

Q Dai, L Zhang, K Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The objective of infill well placement optimization is to determine the optimal well locations
that maximize the net present value (NPV). The most common method of well infilling in oil …

Toward investigating the application of reservoir opportunity index in facilitating well placement optimization under geological uncertainty

R Yousefzadeh, M Ahmadi, A Kazemi - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
There have been several attempts to reduce the computational costs associated with well
placement optimization under geological uncertainty by selecting a representative subset of …

[HTML][HTML] Application of particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm for optimization of a southern Iranian oilfield

M Razghandi, A Dehghan, R Yousefzadeh - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Springer
Optimization of the placement and operational conditions of oil wells plays an important role
in the development of the oilfields. Several automatic optimization algorithms have been …

Enhancement of SPSA algorithm performance using reservoir quality maps: Application to coupled well placement and control optimization problems

B Pouladi, A Karkevandi-Talkhooncheh… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Determination of optimal well location is a vital step in the design of an efficient field
development plan which aims to maximize the hydrocarbon recovery and profits from the …

(μ+ λ) Evolution strategy algorithm in well placement, trajectory, control and joint optimisation

Z Alrashdi, M Sayyafzadeh - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Field development optimisation is a critical task in the modern reservoir management
processes. The optimum setting provides the best exploitation strategy and financial returns …

A time-bounded approach for reducing runtime of well placement optimization using PSO and PSOGA algorithms

M Asadian-Pakfar, B Sedaee, A Nakhaee - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining the optimal drilling locations and well production/injection rates is a highly
complex decision in reservoir development. The present study aims to optimize well …