arXiv Machine Learning By M. A. Fernandes, E. Gildin, M. A. Sampaio

Soft Sensor for Bottom-Hole Pressure Estimation in Petroleum Wells Using Long Short-Term Memory and Transfer Learning

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The paper presents a machine‑learning soft sensor that estimates bottom‑hole pressure (BHP) in petroleum wells using wellhead and topside data. It employs a Long Short‑Term Memory (LSTM) model, compares it with Multi‑Layer Perceptron and Ridge Regression, and introduces transfer learning to adapt the model across different operational settings. Tested on offshore datasets from Brazil’s Pre‑salt basin, the LSTM achieved a mean absolute percentage error below 2%, outperforming the benchmarks.

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