TY - JOUR
T1 - Fuzzy expert system for solving lost circulation problem
AU - Sheremetov, Leonid
AU - Batyrshin, Ildar
AU - Filatov, Denis
AU - Martinez, Jorge
AU - Rodriguez, Hector
N1 - Funding Information:
Partial support for this research work was provided by the IMP, within the project D.00006 and by PEMEX within the project F.53995. Special thanks to our domain expert, Juan Jose Camacho, to David Lugo and all the colleagues participating in the development of the expert system.
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - Lost circulation is the most common problem encountered while drilling oil wells. This paper describes a distributed fuzzy expert system, called Smart-Drill, aimed in helping petroleum engineers to diagnose and solve lost circulation problems. To represent and manipulate perception-based evaluations of uncertainties of facts and rules, the expert system uses an uncertainty model with qualitative scales of plausibility values and multi-set-based fuzzy algebra of strict monotonic operations. Its realization in inference procedures permits taking into account the change of plausibility of premises in expert systems rules. Original tools like CAPNET Expert System Shell, Knowledge Acquisition Tool and WITSML Converter implementing the proposed model were used for the development of the Smart-Drill. Overall, the system architecture is discussed and implementation details are provided. Both desktop and Web-based implementations permit petroleum engineers benefit from the system working out in the field. The system is currently at field testing phase in PEMEX, Mexican Oil Company.
AB - Lost circulation is the most common problem encountered while drilling oil wells. This paper describes a distributed fuzzy expert system, called Smart-Drill, aimed in helping petroleum engineers to diagnose and solve lost circulation problems. To represent and manipulate perception-based evaluations of uncertainties of facts and rules, the expert system uses an uncertainty model with qualitative scales of plausibility values and multi-set-based fuzzy algebra of strict monotonic operations. Its realization in inference procedures permits taking into account the change of plausibility of premises in expert systems rules. Original tools like CAPNET Expert System Shell, Knowledge Acquisition Tool and WITSML Converter implementing the proposed model were used for the development of the Smart-Drill. Overall, the system architecture is discussed and implementation details are provided. Both desktop and Web-based implementations permit petroleum engineers benefit from the system working out in the field. The system is currently at field testing phase in PEMEX, Mexican Oil Company.
KW - Finite ordinal scales
KW - Fuzzy algebra
KW - Fuzzy expert system
KW - Knowledge representation
KW - Lost circulation problem
KW - Multi-sets
KW - Oil well drilling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.11.003
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1568-4946
VL - 8
SP - 14
EP - 29
JO - Applied Soft Computing Journal
JF - Applied Soft Computing Journal
IS - 1
ER -