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An Efficient and Practical Workflow for Probabilistic Forecasting of Brown Fields Constrained by Historical Data
Brown fields are fields with significant production history. Probabilistic forecasting for brown fields requires multiple history-matched models that are conditioned to available field production data. This paper presents a systematic and practical workflow to generate an ensemble of simulation models that is able to capture uncertainties in forecasts, while honoring the observed production data.
The proposed workflow employs the Bayes theorem to define a posterior Probability Density Function (PDF) that represents model forecast uncertainty by incorporating the misfit between simulation results and measured production data. Previous workflows use the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling method, which requires an extremely large number (thousands) of simulation runs. To alleviate this drawback, a Proxy-based Acceptance-Rejection (PAR) sampling method is developed in this study to generate representative simulation models that characterize the posterior PDF using hundreds of simulation runs. The proposed workflow is summarized in five key steps […].
Results of the workflow are compared to those obtained using the Metropolis-Hasting MCMC sampling method. The comparison shows that the proposed workflow only requires 800 simulation runs to obtain results as accurate as the MCMC method with 8000 simulation runs. This translates into a 10- times speedup, which makes the proposed workflow practical for many real reservoir simulation studies.
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Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 28-30 September 2015, Houston, Texas, USA