New patent application published for: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION

An apparatus for computing includes an input interface configured to receive a base reservoir simulation representative of a geological oil reservoir, and a processor. The processor is configured to cluster the reservoir into a plurality of sub-regions, generate, in a first optimization process, a candidate pool of well positions in the reservoir by screening and pruning a search space of possible well trajectories, each candidate well position being geologically plausible and satisfying one or more operational constraints; and optimize, in a second optimization process, the candidate pool of well positions to determine an optimized pool of wells that maximizes a dynamic variable of the reservoir. The apparatus further includes an output interface configured to output the optimized pool of wells to a user.