RESEARCH ARTICLE
Predicting the Oil Well Production Based on Multi Expression Programming
Xin Ma*, Zhi-bin Liu
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2016Volume: 9
First Page: 21
Last Page: 32
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-9-21
DOI: 10.2174/1874834101609010021
Article History:
Received Date: 17/11/2014Revision Received Date: 03/04/2015
Acceptance Date: 26/08/2015
Electronic publication date: 9/3/2016
Collection year: 2016
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Predicting the oil well production is very important and also quite a complex mission for the petroleum engineering. Due to its complexity, the previous empirical methods could not perform well for different kind of wells, and intelligent methods are applied to solve this problem. In this paper the multi expression programming (MEP) method has been employed to build the prediction model for oil well production, combined with the phase space reconstruction technique. The MEP has shown a better performance than the back propagation networks, gene expression programming method and the Arps decline model in the experiments, and it has also been shown that the optimal state of the MEP could be easily obtained, which could overcome the over-fitting.
