Oil Production Decline Prediction: A Comparative Study of Conventional Machine Learning, Ensemble Residual Learning, and Sarima Models
32 Pages Posted: 9 Feb 2025 Publication Status: Under Review
Abstract
Oil production forecasting is a key phase in the life of an oilfield. Unfortunately, the conventional empirical and statistical predictive models exhibit several lapses. Also, traditional machine learning model training fails to capture the high non-linearity in the time series dataset. In this current work, the performance of ensemble residual machine learning models is compared to conventional machine learning and SARIMA models which have been largely used for time series forecasting. A monthly production data composed of 72 characteristics and 3 observations was used in this study. Hybrid models developed from the ensemble residual learning, especially the ridge plus the XGBoost/Decision Tree models showed enhanced performance. Their metrics were better than the best-performing conventional model with 11.30% RMSE, 14.13% MAPE, and the SARIMA model with 21.11% RMSE, 23.00% MAPE.
Keywords: oil production forecasting, time series forecasting, machine learning, residual modeling, ARIMA, SARIMA
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