Robustness and Transferability of Pix2Geomodel for Bidirectional Facies Property Translation in a Complex Reservoir

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Autori principali: Al-Fakih, Abdulrahman, Sariah, Nabil, Koeshidayatullah, Ardiansyah, Hanafy, Sherif, Kaka, SanLinn I.
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author Al-Fakih, Abdulrahman
Sariah, Nabil
Koeshidayatullah, Ardiansyah
Hanafy, Sherif
Kaka, SanLinn I.
author_facet Al-Fakih, Abdulrahman
Sariah, Nabil
Koeshidayatullah, Ardiansyah
Hanafy, Sherif
Kaka, SanLinn I.
contents Reservoir geomodeling is central to subsurface characterization, but it remains challenging because conditioning data are sparse, geological heterogeneity is strong, and conventional geostatistical workflows often struggle to capture nonlinear relationships between facies and petrophysical properties. This study evaluates the robustness and transferability of Pix2Geomodel on a different and more complex reservoir dataset with reduced vertical support. The new case includes a heterogeneous reservoir-quality classification and only 54 retained layers, providing a stricter test of whether Pix2Pix-based image-to-image translation can preserve facies-property relationships under constrained data conditions. Facies, porosity, permeability, and clay volume (VCL) were extracted from a reference reservoir model, exported as aligned two-dimensional slices, augmented using consistent geometric transformations, and assembled into paired image datasets. Six bidirectional tasks were evaluated: facies to porosity, facies to permeability, facies to VCL, porosity to facies, permeability to facies, and VCL to facies. The Pix2Pix model, consisting of a U-Net generator and PatchGAN discriminator, was evaluated using image-based metrics, visual comparison, and variogram-based spatial-continuity validation. Results show that the model preserves the dominant geological architecture and main spatial-continuity trends. Facies to porosity achieved the highest pixel accuracy and frequency-weighted intersection over union of 0.9326 and 0.8807, while VCL to facies achieved the highest mean pixel accuracy and mean intersection over union of 0.8506 and 0.7049. These findings show that Pix2Geomodel can transfer beyond its original case study as a practical framework for rapid bidirectional facies-property translation in complex reservoir modeling.
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spellingShingle Robustness and Transferability of Pix2Geomodel for Bidirectional Facies Property Translation in a Complex Reservoir
Al-Fakih, Abdulrahman
Sariah, Nabil
Koeshidayatullah, Ardiansyah
Hanafy, Sherif
Kaka, SanLinn I.
Geophysics
Computational Complexity
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Physics
Reservoir geomodeling is central to subsurface characterization, but it remains challenging because conditioning data are sparse, geological heterogeneity is strong, and conventional geostatistical workflows often struggle to capture nonlinear relationships between facies and petrophysical properties. This study evaluates the robustness and transferability of Pix2Geomodel on a different and more complex reservoir dataset with reduced vertical support. The new case includes a heterogeneous reservoir-quality classification and only 54 retained layers, providing a stricter test of whether Pix2Pix-based image-to-image translation can preserve facies-property relationships under constrained data conditions. Facies, porosity, permeability, and clay volume (VCL) were extracted from a reference reservoir model, exported as aligned two-dimensional slices, augmented using consistent geometric transformations, and assembled into paired image datasets. Six bidirectional tasks were evaluated: facies to porosity, facies to permeability, facies to VCL, porosity to facies, permeability to facies, and VCL to facies. The Pix2Pix model, consisting of a U-Net generator and PatchGAN discriminator, was evaluated using image-based metrics, visual comparison, and variogram-based spatial-continuity validation. Results show that the model preserves the dominant geological architecture and main spatial-continuity trends. Facies to porosity achieved the highest pixel accuracy and frequency-weighted intersection over union of 0.9326 and 0.8807, while VCL to facies achieved the highest mean pixel accuracy and mean intersection over union of 0.8506 and 0.7049. These findings show that Pix2Geomodel can transfer beyond its original case study as a practical framework for rapid bidirectional facies-property translation in complex reservoir modeling.
title Robustness and Transferability of Pix2Geomodel for Bidirectional Facies Property Translation in a Complex Reservoir
topic Geophysics
Computational Complexity
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03919