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SegLog: Geophysical Logging Segmentation Network for Lithofacies Identification

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Identifying borehole lithofacies through geop- hysical loggings is a fundamental task in petroleum exploration industry. Recent interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the feasibility of applying machine learning to lithofacies identification. Most… Click to show full abstract

Identifying borehole lithofacies through geop- hysical loggings is a fundamental task in petroleum exploration industry. Recent interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the feasibility of applying machine learning to lithofacies identification. Most of these studies establish a mapping from the logging values at one depth point to the lithofacies type. However, due to the intrinsic properties of geophysical loggings, the logging shape should be taken into consideration, apart from the absolute values. In this article, we present the attempt to predict the lithofacies by feeding logging segments, and for the first time model the logging lithofacies identification problem as 1-D semantic segmentation. Such a logging segmentation task is challenging due to two reasons, strong spatial heterogeneity of lithofacies subsurface distribution and the explicit physical significance of geophysical loggings. To solve these challenges, we propose a novel geophysical logging segmentation network entitled SegLog. Specifically, we develop a global statistics pooling subnetwork and a statistics fusion subnetwork to generate statistical embeddings of geophysical loggings. Based on these statistical embeddings, we design a pixel-enhanced convolutional subnetwork to learn the microdetailed features, indicated by pixel-level logging values. These features are fused with the macrosemantic features extracted by a backbone U-Net to constitute the representations that can simultaneously describe the logging spatial correlation and pixel specificity. Experimental results on two logging datasets from the Jiyang Depression verify the effectiveness of our modeling strategy and its state-of-the-art performance on the lithofacies identification problem.

Keywords: logging segmentation; lithofacies identification; geophysical logging; segmentation; segmentation network

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Year Published: 2022

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