In the process of oil and natural gas exploration and development, density logging curves play a crucial role, providing essential evidence for identifying lithology, calculating reservoir parameters, and analyzing fluid properties. Due to factors such as instrument failure and wellbore enlargement, logging data for some well segments may become distorted or missing during the actual logging process. To address this issue, this paper proposes a density logging curve reconstruction model that integrates the multi-head self-attention mechanism (MSA) with temporal convolutional networks (TCN) and bidirectional gated recurrent units (BiGRU). This model uses the distance correlation coefficient to determine curves with a strong correlation to density as a model input parameter and incorporates stratigraphic lithology indicators as physical constraints to enhance the model’s reconstruction accuracy and stability. This method was applied to reconstruct density logging curves in the X depression area, compared with several traditional reconstruction methods, and verified through core calibration experiments. The results show that the reconstruction method proposed in this paper exhibits high accuracy and generalizability.
Compressional and shear wave velocities (Vp and Vs, respectively) are important elastic parameters to predict reservoir parameters, such as lithology and hydrocarbons. Due to acquisition technologies and economy, the shear wave velocity is generally lacking. Over the last few years, some researchers proposed deep learning algorithms to predict the shear wave velocity using conventional logging data. However, these algorithms focus either on spatial feature extraction for different physical properties of rocks or on sequential feature extraction in the depth direction of rocks. Only focusing on feature extraction in a direction of rocks might lead to a decrease in prediction accuracy. Therefore, we propose a hybrid network of a two-dimensional convolutional neural network and the gated recurrent unit (2DCNN-GRU), which can establish more complex nonlinear relationships between the input and output data based on the spatial features extracted by 2DCNN and the sequential features extracted by GRU. In this study, two cases are used to validate the reliability and prediction accuracy of the proposed network. Comparing the prediction results of 2DCNN, GRU, and the proposed network, the proposed network shows better performance. Meanwhile, for improving the prediction accuracy of the proposed network, the relationship is analyzed between the prediction accuracy of the proposed network and the length of the input sample.
30 March 2025 in Geoenergy Science and Engineering
Shear wave velocity is one of the important parameters reflecting the lithological and physical properties of reservoirs, and it is widely used in the fields of lithology and fluid property identification, reservoir evaluation, seismic data processing, and interpretation. However, due to the high cost and challenge of obtaining shear wave velocity, only a few key wells are measured. Considering the intricate nonlinear mapping relationship between shear wave velocity and conventional logging data, an integrated network incorporating an attention mechanism, a convolutional neural network, and a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (STACBiN) is proposed for predicting shear wave velocity. The impact of conventional logging data on shear wave velocity is analyzed, thus employing the attention mechanism to focus on data correlated with shear wave velocity, which can enable the prediction results of the method proposed superior to those of conventional methods. Additionally, the prediction results of this method are compared with the prediction results of the two-dimensional convolutional neural network (2DCNN) and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU). It is verified that the network proposed can effectively predict the shear wave velocity, with minimal error between predicted and true values.
Compression-wave velocity and shear-wave velocity are important elastic parameters describing deeply tight sandstone. Limited by cost and technical reasons, the conventional logging data generally lack shear-wave velocity. In addition, the existing rock physics theory is difficult to accurately establish the rock physics models due to the complex pore structure of tight sandstone reservoir. With the rapid development of the artificial intelligence, the attention mechanism that can increase the sensitivity of the network to important characteristics has been widely used in machine translation, image processing, and other fields, but it is rarely used to predict shear-wave velocity. Based on the correlation between the shear-wave velocity and the conventional logging data in the spatiotemporal direction, a gate recurrent unit (GRU) fusion network based on the spatiotemporal attention mechanism (STAGRU) is proposed. Compared with the convolutional neural network (CNN) and gate recurrent unit (GRU), the network proposed can improve the sensitivity of the network to important spatiotemporal characteristics using the spatiotemporal attention mechanism. It is analyzed that the relationship between the spatiotemporal characteristics of the conventional logging data and the attention weights of the network proposed to verify the rationality of adding the spatiotemporal attention mechanism. Finally, the training and testing results of the STAGRU, CNN, and GRU networks show that the prediction accuracy and generalization of the network proposed are better than those of the other two networks.
In the production development stages of volatile oil reservoirs and condensate gas reservoirs, especially in the early stages of production, the phenomenon of high gas–oil ratio often occurs. As a result, the prediction results of oil and gas are greatly deviated from the actual situation, which seriously affects the implementation of potential excavation and increases production operation for condensate gas reservoirs. Therefore, the accurate identification of condensate gas and volatile oil is the key to improve the development efficiency in condensate reservoirs. However, due to the similar geophysical logging response characteristics for condensate gas, volatile oil, and light oil reservoirs, the qualitative identification effect only based on conventional logging is not ideal. Therefore, we propose a method to calculate the gas–oil ratio by introducing gas logging information and use the gas–oil ratio quantitative calculation results to identify condensate gas and volatile oil layers. First, we establish a physical model of the formation components of the condensate gas reservoir. Based on this physical model, we establish the response equations of various logging tools and evaluate the correlation between the gas logging information and the production gas–oil ratio to establish the response equation of gas logging. Then, we comprehensively use the well logging and gas logging response equations to establish an optimization mathematical model, solve the optimization objective function, obtain the relative content of natural gas and movable oil in the formation to calculate the gas–oil ratio parameters, and finally use this calculation result of the gas–oil ratio to quantitatively identify the fluid type. The application results show that the gas–oil ratio quantitative calculation method that we proposed can calculate the gas–oil ratio parameter accurately, and the calculation results are consistent with the formation testing data, which provides technical support for the identification of complex fluid properties in condensate gas reservoirs.