L2-SSA-LSTM Prediction Model of Steering Drilling Wellbore Trajectory

The high-speed vibration rotation of the drill bit during drilling causes the logging tool to be damaged or distorted, resulting in inaccurate or lost data collection. Traditional prediction methods such as dynamic modeling and geological modeling have problems such as incomplete data and difficult modeling, which cannot meet the accuracy and stability requirements of wellbore trajectory prediction. The long short-term memory neural network (LSTM) for predicting time series can achieve accurate prediction, but there are problems such as difficulty in adjusting the hyperparameters of the LSTM model, slow convergence speed, and easy overfitting. This paper absorbs the advantages of the LSTM algorithm, ridge regression (L2 regularization), and sparrow optimization algorithm (SSA) in machine learning and proposes a well trajectory prediction model of steerable drilling based on L2 regularization and SSA optimized LSTM (L2-SSA-LSTM). The model takes the LSTM hyperparameter as the parameter optimization goal of SSA and adds L2 regularization to the model to prevent model overfitting to complete modeling and prediction. The experiment was conducted using measured data sets from directional drilling in two different oilfields. The results show that compared with the back propagation algorithm (BP), consolidated memory gated recurrent unit (CMGRU), dual-thread gated recurrent unit (DTGRU), Attention-based Spatiotemporal Graph Recurrent Neural Network (ASTG-RNN), LSTM, and the L2-SSA-LSTM prediction model has significantly higher accuracy in predicting directional drilling trajectories than other models and has the better predictive ability.