Artificial Neural Network Application to Permeability Prediction from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Log

Reservoir permeability plays a crucial role in characterizing reservoirs and predicting the present and future production of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Data logging is a good tool for assessing the entire oil well section's continuous permeability curve. Nuclear magnetic resonance logging measurements are minimally influenced by lithology and offer significant benefits in interpreting permeability. The Schlumberger-Doll-Research model utilizes nuclear magnetic resonance logging, which accurately estimates permeability values. The approach of this investigation is to apply artificial neural networks and core data to predict permeability in wells without a nuclear magnetic resonance log. The Schlumberger-Doll-Research permeability is used to train the model, where the model prediction result is validated with core permeability. Seven oil well logs were used as input parameters, and the model was constructed with Techlog software. The predicted permeability with the model compared with Schlumberger-Doll-Research permeability as a cross plot, which results in the correlation coefficient of 94%, while the predicted permeability validated with the core permeability of the well, which obtains good agreement where R2 equals 80%. The model was utilized to forecast permeability in a well that did not have a nuclear magnetic resonance log, and the predicted permeability was cross-plotted against core permeability as a validation step, with a correlation coefficient of 77%. As a result, the low percentage of matching was due to data limitations, which demonstrated that as the amount of data used to train the model increased, so did the precision.