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Record W4409381784 · doi:10.3390/pr13041162

Integrated Data-Driven Framework for Forecasting Tight Gas Production Based on Machine Learning Algorithms, Feature Selection and Fracturing Optimization

2025· article· en· W4409381784 on OpenAlex
Fuyu Yao, Gang Hui, Dewei Meng, Chenqi Ge, Ke Zhang, Yili Ren, Ye Li, Yujie Zhang, Xing Yang, Penghu Bao, Zhiyang Pi, Dan Wu, Fei Gu

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Bibliographic record

VenueProcesses · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersScience Foundation of China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina University of Petroleum, BeijingNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsFeature selectionProduction (economics)Feature (linguistics)Selection (genetic algorithm)Computer scienceMachine learningArtificial intelligenceTight gasData miningEngineeringPetroleum engineeringHydraulic fracturing

Abstract

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A precise assessment of tight gas operational efficiency is critical for investment decisions in unconventional reservoir development. However, quantifying production efficiency remains challenging due to the complex relationships between geological and operational factors. This study proposes a novel data-driven framework for predicting tight gas productivity, effectively integrating computing algorithms, machine learning algorithms, feature selection, production prediction and fracturing parameter optimization. A dataset of 3146 horizontal wells from the Montney tight gas field was used to train six machine learning models, aiming to identify the most significant factors. Results indicate that fluid-injection volumes, burial depth, number of stages, Young’s modulus, formation pressure, saturation, sandstone thickness and total organic carbon are the key variables for tight gas production. The Random Forest-based model achieved the highest accuracy of 88.6%. Case studies for the test demonstrate well that gas production could be nearly doubled by increasing fracturing fluid injection by 97.5%. This work provides evidence-based recommendations to refine development strategies and maximize reservoir performance.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.258
Threshold uncertainty score0.596

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it