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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Biswas, Kallol
• Vasant, Pandian M.
• Vintaned, Jose Antonio Gamez
• Watada, Junzo

Titel

A Review of Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimizing 3D Well-Path Designs

Ist Teil von

• Archives of computational methods in engineering, 2021-05, Vol.28 (3), p.1775-1793

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Due to a variety of possible good types and so many complex drilling variables and constraints, optimization of the trajectory of a complex wellbore is very challenging. There are several types of well such as directional wells, horizontal wells, redrilling wells, complex structure wells, cluster wells, and extended reach wells etcetera. Over the past few years, the number of unconventional well including deviated well, highly deviated well is steadily increasing. Directional drilling has some advantages over vertical drilling though it is more expensive. In drilling engineering optimization of wellbore plays an important role, which can be optimized based on the minimization of the length of wellbore, minimization of mud pressure, critical pressure etcetera. Till today so many approaches or methods used to optimize this wellbore trajectory. From those methods here in this study we focused on metaheuristic approaches that used to optimize wellbore trajectory. This reduction of the wellbore length helps to establish cost-effective approaches that can be utilized to resolve a group of complex trajectory optimization challenges. For efficient performance (i.e.; quickly locating global optima while taking the smallest amount of computational time) we have to identify flexible control parameters. Later this parameter can be effectively fixed to tune different algorithms. This research will develop a review of the various algorithm used to optimize deviated wellbore trajectories. In the environment of challenging commodity prices, engineers and commercial firms bound to utilize technology to find out a low-cost solution. Technology is also helpful for the automatic solution of a complex problem, which also allows for the better utilization of resources. This review paper helps to find out optimal wellbore trajectory optimization algorithms that can close the technology gap by giving a useful method. This method can generate a solution automatically. Before establishing a different algorithm, those previous authors considered a number of factors and limitations. Safety is one of them. Before drilling depleted zones should be well studied, otherwise, it may be the reason for so many problems. The heuristic approach builds up solutions through the trial and error method. Those methods take a decent amount of time for solving a complex problem. For a single known problem, different metaheuristic approaches take a different amount of time to find the optimal solution. Among different metaheuristic algorithm which was used to find minimum true measured depth (TMD), we try to make a review where we focused on their computational time, minimization of length, method, etcetera.