Application of artificial intelligence in predicting the dynamics of bottom hole pressure for under-balanced drilling: Extra tree compared with feed forward neural network model

• Published in: Petroleum Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 227 - 236
• Main Authors: Okoro, Emmanuel E., Obomanu, Tamunotonjo, Sanni, Samuel E., Olatunji, David I., Igbinedion, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.06.2022; KeAi Communications Co., Ltd
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Bottom hole pressure; Extra tree; Feed forward algorithms; Oil and gas; Predictive model; Bottom hole pressure; Extra tree; Oil and gas; Artificial intelligence; Feed forward algorithms; Predictive model
• ISSN: 2405-6561
• DOI: 10.1016/j.petlm.2021.03.001

This study used six fields data alongside correlation heat map to evaluate the field parameters that affect the accuracy of bottom hole pressure (BHP) estimation. The six oil field data were acquired using measurement while drilling device to collect surface measurements of the downhole pressure data while drilling. For the two case studies, measured field data of the wellbore filled with gasified mud system was utilized, and the wellbores were drilled using rotary jointed drill strings. Extremely Randomized Tree and feed forward neural network algorithms were used to develop models that can predict with high accuracy, BHP from measured field data. For modeling purpose, an extensive data from six fields was used, and the proposed model was further validated with two data from two new fields. The gathered data encompasses a variety of well data, general information/data, depths, hole size, and depths. The developed model was compared with data obtained from two new fields based on its capability, stability and accuracy. The result and model’s performance from the error analysis revealed that the two proposed Extra Tree and Feed Forward models replicate the bottom hole pressure data with R2 greater than 0.9. The high values of R2 for the two models suggest the relative reliability of the modelling techniques. The magnitudes of mean squared error and mean absolute percentage error for the predicted BHPs from both models range from 0.33 to 0.34 and 2.02%–2.14%, for the Extra tree model and 0.40–0.41 and 3.90%–3.99% for Feed Forward model respectively; the least errors were recorded for the Extra Tree model. Also, the mean absolute error of the Extra Tree model for both fields (9.13–10.39 psi) are lower than that of the Feed Forward model (10.98–11 psi), thus showing the higher precision of the Extra Tree model relative to the Feed Forward model. Literature has shown that underbalanced operation does not guarantee the improvement of horizontal well’s extension ability, because it mainly depends on the relationship between the bottomhole pressure and its corresponding critical point. Thus, the application of this study proposed models for predicting bottomhole pressure trends.