Gradient Boosting to Boost the Efficiency of Hydraulic Fracturing

Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Abstract In this paper we present a data-driven model for forecasting the production increase after hydraulic fracturing (HF). We use data from fracturing jobs performed at one of the Siberian oilfields. The data includes features, characterizing the jobs, and a geological information. To predict an oil rate after the fracturing machine learning (ML) technique was applied. The MLbased prediction is compared to a prediction based on the experience of reservoir and production engineers responsible for the HFjob planning.