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PRODUCTIVITY PREDICTION OF SHALE RESERVOIRS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING METHODS
ABSTRACT
With increasing difficulty in oil and gas field development, accurate prediction of well productivity has become crucial. Traditional methods such as analytical solutions and numerical simulations have limited accuracy under heterogeneous and complex flow conditions. This study develops a CNN-LSTM model combining convolutional neural networks (CNN) and long short-term memory networks (LSTM) based on measured data from well J-1 in a shale oil block in eastern China for short-term multi-dimensional time series production forecasting. The model integrates CNN's feature extraction with LSTM's temporal modeling, using inputs including production rate, oil pressure, casing pressure, and production time. Compared with the traditional random forest (RF) model, the CNN-LSTM outperforms across R², MAE, MAPE, and RMSE metrics, achieving an R² of 0.9707 and MAPE below 5.1% on the test set. Results demonstrate strong fitting and predictive capabilities, indicating good applicability and potential for broader use in shale oil production forecasting.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2025-08-20
PAPER REVISED: 2025-09-29
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2025-10-30
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2026-07-25
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI250820127Y
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