Research Progress and Prospects of Data-Driven Reservoir History Matching Methods

作者：Haoxi Shi, Lu Yang, Zengyun Hu, Ming Zhang, Liyang Wang, Botao Liu · 发表于：Mathematical Modeling and Algorithm Application · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.54097/jzxdmx11 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods、Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis、Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Reservoir history matching is a crucial process in oilfield development, aiming to calibrate geological models, characterize reservoir parameters, and enhance predictive accuracy. Traditional manual history matching relies heavily on human expertise, extensive computational effort, and subjective judgment, which can no longer meet the demands posed by increasingly complex geological structures and massive data volumes. In recent years, data-driven and machine learning approaches have shown great potential in reservoir inversion and production forecasting. Emerging models such as proxy models, deep neural networks, graph neural networks (GNNs), and Transformers provide new paradigms for achieving automatic reservoir history matching. This paper reviews the historical evolution of history matching methods, tracing their progression from early numerical simulation and optimization algorithms to modern data-driven modeling techniques. From the perspective of machine learning, it further investigates the performance of these methods in dynamic reservoir prediction and discusses the application prospects of spatio-temporal fusion models based on GNNs and Transformers. Finally, the paper outlines the current challenges and future directions in this field, aiming to contribute to the advancement of intelligent reservoir modeling and the development of digital twin reservoirs.