Abstract
Water saturation assessment is recognized as one of the most critical aspects of formation evaluation, reserve estimation, and prediction of the production performance of any hydrocarbon reservoir. Water saturation measurement in a core laboratory is a time-consuming and expensive task. Many scientists have attempted to estimate water saturation accurately using well-logging data, which provides a continuous record without information loss. As a result, numerous models have been developed to relate reservoir characteristics with water saturation. By expanding the use and advancement of soft computing approaches in engineering challenges, petroleum engineers applied them to estimate the petrophysical parameters of the reservoir. In this paper, two techniques are developed to estimate the water saturation in terms of porosity, permeability, and formation resistivity index through the use of 383 data sets obtained from carbonate core samples. These techniques are the nonlinear multiple regression (NLMR) technique and the artificial neural network (ANN) technique. The proposed ANN model achieved outstanding performance and better accuracy for calculating the water saturation than the empirical correlation using NLMR and Archie equation with a high coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.99, a low average relative error of 1.92, a low average absolute relative error of 13.62, and a low root mean square error of 0.066. To the best of our knowledge, the current research establishes a novel foundation using the ANN model in the estimation of water saturation.
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