A Novel Cementing Quality Evaluation Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

The quality of cement in cased boreholes is related to the production and life of wells. At present, the most commonly used method is to use CBL-VDL to evaluate, but the interpretation process is complicated, and decisions associated with significant risks may be taken based on the interpretation results. Therefore, cementing quality evaluation must be interpreted by experienced experts, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To improve the efficiency of cementing interpretation, this paper used VGG, ResNet, and other convolutional neural networks to automatically evaluate the cementing quality, but the accuracy is insufficient. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-scale perceptual convolutional neural network with kernels of different sizes that can extract and fuse information of different scales in VDL logging. In total, 5500 datasets in Tarim Oilfield were used for training and validation. Compared with other convolutional neural network algorithms, the multi-scale perceptual convolutional neural network algorithm proposed in this paper can evaluate cementing quality more accurately by identifying VDL logging. At the same time, this model’s time and space complexity are lower, and the operation efficiency is higher. To verify the anti-interference of the model, this paper added 3%, 6%, and 9% of white noise to the VDL data set for cementing evaluation. The results show that, compared with other convolutional neural networks, the multi-scale perceptual convolutional neural network model is more stable and more suitable for the identification of cementing quality.

Keywords

• cementing quality evaluation
• artificial intelligence
• convolutional neural network
• image feature extraction