Surrogate-assisted inversion for large-scale history matching: comparative study between projection-based reduced-order modelling and deep neural network

Main Author: Cong Xiao
Format: info software
Bahasa: aig
Terbitan: , 2021
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4504405
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  • History matching can play a key role in improving geological characterization and reducing the uncertainty of reservoir model predictions. Application of reservoir history matching is restricted by the huge computational cost by amongst others the many runs of the full model. Surrogate models with a reduced complexity are therefore used to reduce the computational demands. This paper presents an efficient surrogate-assisted deterministic inversion framework to primarily explore the possibility of applying deep neural network (DNN) surrogate to approximate the gradient of large-scale history matching by using auto-differentiation (AD). In combination with the deep neural network model, the AD enables us to evaluate the gradients efficiently in a parallel manner. Furthermore, the benefits of using stochastic gradient optimizers in the deep learning practice, instead of full gradient optimizers in conventional deterministic inversions, is investigated as well. Numerical experiments are conducted on a 3D benchmark reservoir model in the context of a water-flooding production scenario. The quantity of interest, e.g., dynamic saturation for an ensemble of test models, can be accurately predicted. The proposed surrogate-assisted inversion with stochastic gradient optimizer obtains a very quick convergence rate against the model and data noise for the high-dimensional history matching problem with a large number of data and parameters. This type of surrogate model has demonstrated great potential in solving large-scale history matching problem. The DNN surrogate is particularly useful to generate multiple posteriors for model uncertainty quantification. You can download the dataset from my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LF7HIwwDVi9cox1GkhIIP2pIIjb3OafL?usp=sharing. This paper has been submitted to Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.