Clustering Techniques for Value-of-information Assessment in Closed-loop Reservoir Management
E. Goncalves Dias De Barros (TU Delft - Reservoir Engineering)
E Insuasty (Eindhoven University of Technology)
PMJ Van den Hof (Eindhoven University of Technology)
J. D. Jansen (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences, TU Delft - Geoscience and Engineering)
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Abstract
Closed-loop reservoir management (CLRM) is a combination of life-cycle optimization and computerassisted history matching. The application of the CLRM framework to real field cases can be computationally demanding. An even higher computational load results from procedures to assess the value of information (VOI) in CLRM. Such procedures, which are performed prior to field operation, i.e. during the field development planning (FDP) phase, require extreme amounts of simulations. Therefore, we look for alternatives to reduce this computational cost. In particular we compare various clustering techniques to select a limited number of representative members from an ensemble of reservoir models. Using K-means clustering, multi-dimensional scaling and tensor decomposition techniques, we test the effectiveness of different dissimilarity measures such as distance in parameter space, distance in terms of flow patterns and distance in optimal sets of controls. As a first step towards large-scale application we apply several of these measures to a VOI-CLRM exercise using a simple 2D reservoir model which results in a reduction of the necessary number of forward reservoir simulations from millions to thousands