A fuzzy optimization model to select the fracturing layers

Abstract

Fracturing is an effective way to enhance oil recovery and widely used in the oil field. A good fracturing result relies on proper selection of target well and target layer. Traditionally, the method to selecting target wells and target layers is always done artificially and imprecisely. As a result, fracturing does not perform as well as it can. This paper proposes a fuzzy method of optimizing the selection of target wells and target layers for fracturing. This study successfully applies the fuzzy theory to the job to fracturing. It is an important technique of fracturing.