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Deep-learning-based Early Fixing for Gas-lifted Oil Production Optimization: Supervised and Weakly-supervised Approaches

Abstract

Maximizing oil production from gas-lifted oil wells entails solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs). As the parameters of the wells, such as the basic-sediment-to-water ratio and the gas-oil ratio, are updated, the problems must be repeatedly solved. Instead of relying on costly exact methods or the accuracy of general approximate methods, in this paper, we propose a tailor-made heuristic solution based on deep learning models trained to provide values to all integer variables given varying well parameters, early-fixing the integer variables and, thus, reducing the original problem to a linear program (LP). We propose two approaches for developing the learning-based heuristic: a supervised learning approach, which requires the optimal integer values for several instances of the original problem in the training set, and a weakly-supervised learning approach, which requires only solutions for the early-fixed linear problems with random assignments for the integer variables. Our results show a runtime reduction of 71.11% Furthermore, the weakly-supervised learning model provided significant values for early fixing, despite never seeing the optimal values during training.

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