Paper Review: Machine-Learning-Based Petrophysical Property Modeling

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Paper Review: Machine-Learning-Based Petrophysical

Property Modeling
1. Paper summary:
This paper aims to provide a method to overcome the challenges for developing real-time
reservoir management, which is very difficult to implement because updating the reservoir
requires plenty of time to be completed. More specifically, the model introduced in this paper
enable a real-time or near-real-time decision making which helps update the porosity in the 3D
static reservoir models. This machine learning model integrates 3D spatial availability of seismic
data with petrophysical properties.
The machine learning model in this paper complies with the normal process of building a
machine learning model. The data is collect and QA/QC to remove the outliers in log data. The
quality of seismic data is also evaluated. After evaluating the dataset, the authors select relevant
features with input from geostatistician, which will be filtered again when combining statistics
with science.
The main part is model building, using algorithms for modeling porosity using the data at well
locations. Then several models will be compared based on accuracy and computational
efficiency.
The last step is to validate the model. The results of the models will be compared to the results
from the conventional geostatistical method.
2. Review and Conclusion:
The idea given in this paper is an innovative one, it enables real-time decision making, which is
very important in the industry. The methodology is also standard and comprehensible, complies
to the standard process of building a machine learning model. However, this paper is not well-
organized. Firstly, the authors did not mention all the references that they used in their paper.
Secondly, it would be more professional if the authors use the flowchart to describe the model A
and model B.
The results are relatively good for both model A and model B, and the authors also explained
why their models cannot capture the sharp variations in the actual petrophysical log. However,
the authors did not show the RMSE and correlation value for the model B. They could not
explain the disparity between the predicted and actual porosity.
The authors said that there are several hyper-parameters that need fine-tuning, but no detail is
given about the hyper-parameters, what they are, and how they affect the model. The selected
features are not listed neither, so the readers cannot have a concept what input the machine
learning models capture. If these details are given, this paper could be an idea-prolific one for
further researches.
Although there are some relatively good results, this paper should not be published on the journal
due to several above-mentioned limits.

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