Print Email Facebook Twitter Ensemble-based hierarchical multi-objective production optimization of smart wells Title Ensemble-based hierarchical multi-objective production optimization of smart wells Author Fonseca, R.M. Leeuwenburgh, O. Van den Hof, P.M.J. Jansen, J.D. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Geoscience & Engineering Date 2014-08-01 Abstract In an earlier study two hierarchical multi-objective methods were suggested to include short-term targets in life-cycle production optimization. However this earlier study has two limitations: 1) the adjoint formulation is used to obtain gradient information, requiring simulator source code access and an extensive implementation effort, and 2) one of the two proposed methods relies on the Hessian matrix which is obtained by a computationally expensive method. In order to overcome the first of these limitations, we used ensemble-based optimization (EnOpt). EnOpt does not require source code access and is relatively easy to implement. To address the second limitation, we used the Broyden-Flecther-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) algorithm to obtain an approximation of the Hessian matrix. We performed experiments in which a water flood was optimized in a geologically realistic multi-layer sector model. The controls were inflow control valve settings at pre-defined time intervals. Undiscounted Net Present Value (NPV) and highly discounted NPV were the long-term and short-term objective functions used. We obtained an increase of approximately 14% in the secondary objective for a decrease of only 0.2-0.5% in the primary objective. The study demonstrates that ensemble-based hierarchical multi-objective optimization can achieve results of practical value in a computationally efficient manner. Subject ensemble optimizationmulti-objective optimizationsmart wellshierarchical optimizationnull-spaceBFGS To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4f94b5d7-e2da-4285-8a7a-71be28085038 Publisher Springer Embargo date 2015-08-01 ISSN 1420-0597 Source Computational Geosciences, 18 (3-4), 2014; Revised manuscript Other version https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-013-9399-2 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 SpringerThe Author(s) Files PDF FonsecaEtAl2014_CG_Ensemb ... eprint.pdf 209.19 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4f94b5d7-e2da-4285-8a7a-71be28085038/datastream/OBJ/view