Fuzzy classifier based support vector regression framework for Poisson ratio determination

Poisson ratio is considered as one of the most important rock mechanical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Determination of this parameter through laboratory measurement is time, cost, and labor intensive. Furthermore, laboratory measurements do not provide continuous data along the reservoir in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of applied geophysics 2013-09, Vol.96, p.7-10
Hauptverfasser: Asoodeh, Mojtaba, Bagheripour, Parisa
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Poisson ratio is considered as one of the most important rock mechanical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Determination of this parameter through laboratory measurement is time, cost, and labor intensive. Furthermore, laboratory measurements do not provide continuous data along the reservoir intervals. Hence, a fast, accurate, and inexpensive way of determining Poisson ratio which produces continuous data over the whole reservoir interval is desirable. For this purpose, support vector regression (SVR) method based on statistical learning theory (SLT) was employed as a supervised learning algorithm to estimate Poisson ratio from conventional well log data. SVR is capable of accurately extracting the implicit knowledge contained in conventional well logs and converting the gained knowledge into Poisson ratio data. Structural risk minimization (SRM) principle which is embedded in the SVR structure in addition to empirical risk minimization (EMR) principle provides a robust model for finding quantitative formulation between conventional well log data and Poisson ratio. Although satisfying results were obtained from an individual SVR model, it had flaws of overestimation in low Poisson ratios and underestimation in high Poisson ratios. These errors were eliminated through implementation of fuzzy classifier based SVR (FCBSVR). The FCBSVR significantly improved accuracy of the final prediction. This strategy was successfully applied to data from carbonate reservoir rocks of an Iranian Oil Field. Results indicated that SVR predicted Poisson ratio values are in good agreement with measured values. •SVR is a fast, precise, and cheap way of predicting Poisson ratio.•FCBSVR significantly enhances accuracy of prediction compared with individual SVR.•FCBSVR breaks down data space into subspaces and solves them separately.•Implementation of proposed strategy saves time and considerably reduces costs.
ISSN:0926-9851
1879-1859
DOI:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.06.006