Abstract:It is normally understood in the industry that permeability and porosity are related but relationship can be strong or weak based on heterogeneity, anisotropy and lithology of the reservoir. So far linear models have been arbitrarily being tried to fit and matched with the data thereby resulting in a poor relationship. This paper seeks to explore data mining techniques for pattern recognition including Kohonen self-organizing maps and other unsupervised learning techniques.
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