The major oil fields
are currently in the middle and late stages
of waterflooding. The water channels between the wells are serious,
and the injected water does little effect. The importance of profile
control and water blocking has been identified. In this paper, the
decision-making technique for water shutoff is investigated by the
fuzzy evaluation method, FEM, which is improved using a random forest,
RF, classification model. A machine learning random forest algorithm
was developed to identify candidate wells and to predict the well
performance for water shutoff operation. A data set consisting of
21 production wells with three-year production history is used, where
out of the mentioned well data, 70% of them are implemented for training
and the remaining are used for testing the model. After fitting the
model, the new weights for the factors are established and decision-making
is made. Accordingly, 16 wells out of 21 wells are selected by the
FEM where 8 wells out of 21 wells are selected by the new factor weight
created by RF for water shutoff. A numerical simulation model is established
to plug the selected wells by both methods after which the influence
of plugging on water cut, daily oil production, and cumulative oil
production is compared. The paper shows that the reservoir had a better
performance after eight wells were selected using a new weighting
system created by RF instead of the 16 wells that were selected using
the FEM model. The paper also states that the new weighting model’s
accuracy improved the decision-making abilities of the wells.