Nowadays different methods of soft computing to reduce time and calculation content are widely used in oil and gas industry. One of the main applications of these methods is prediction of the results of different processes in oil industry which their estimation with usual methods is too difficult and has either no single response or their response finding need more time and cost due to their nonlinear of the related problems. Because of much uncertainty on information which used in simulators, the results of these simulation models may have lot errors so production data (Pressure, Production Rate, Water Oil Ratio (WOR), Gas Oil Ratio (GOR) and etc.) during reservoir life is used to historical accommodation between simulator results and actual data.
The main purpose of this study is investigation and feasibility study of a usual method of artificial intelligence in oil industry, which is based on the soft computing. In this study, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to make a predicting model for bottom hole pressure and for one of the fractured oil reservoirs with the seven years history of production. Some unconditional parameters such as fracture porosity, horizontal and vertical fracture permeability, height of matrix and matrix-fracture dual porosity were applied as input data of the networks, and pressure was applied as an output in network making. Applied data in network making is achieved from the 50 runs with simulator.
The conclusion of this study showed that predicting model of ANN with error less than 4% and reduces the time of process, has a good ability to history matching.
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