Use of neural networks in log's data processing: prediction and rebuilding of lithologic facies
Résumé
When a log is missing in a drilling hole, geologists hope to deduce it
from others logs available in another part of the hole or in a
neighbouring hole, in order to define the lithologic facies of the hole.
This paper presents a neural network method to predict the missing log's
measure from the other available log's measures. This method, based on
Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) acts as a non linear regression method for
the prediction task and as a probability density distribution
approximation for the outlier rejection task. The result obtained when
applied to actual log's data for prediction and rejection are presented
in a separate section. The last section is dedicated to a non supervised
neural method in order to reconstruct the lithologic facies of the
concerned hole. This last experiment allows to validate and interpret
the different results of the proposed methods.