EGU26-2220, updated on 13 Mar 2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-2220
EGU General Assembly 2026
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Poster | Thursday, 07 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST), Display time Thursday, 07 May, 14:00–18:00
 
Hall X4, X4.69
Data-efficient enhanced Pix2Geomodel.v2 for complex facies settings
Abdulrahman Al-Fakih1,2, Sherif Hanafy1,2, Nabil Saraih1,2, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah1,2, and SanLinn Kaka1,2
Abdulrahman Al-Fakih et al.
  • 1Geosciences Department, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
  • 2Center for Integrative Petroleum Research, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

Reservoir modelling in heterogeneous carbonate systems is often constrained by sparse well control and labor-intensive interpretation, which increases uncertainty when extrapolating between wells. We present an enhanced Pix2Geomodel.v2 workflow that reframes facies and petrophysical modelling as paired image-to-image translation. Facies and petrophysical properties are exported from a reference reservoir model, converted into paired 2D training images, and used to train a Pix2Pix-style conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN). The architecture couples a U-Net generator with a PatchGAN discriminator, enabling the model to learn spatial relationships directly from examples. To reduce data requirements while retaining geological heterogeneity, the workflow operates on a streamlined grid of 54 vertical layers and targets complex facies distributions. Preliminary results show stable training and predictions that reproduce the main geological patterns of the reference data. In facies-to-property translation, the network learns meaningful mappings to porosity, permeability, and volume of shale.

How to cite: Al-Fakih, A., Hanafy, S., Saraih, N., Koeshidayatullah, A., and Kaka, S.: Data-efficient enhanced Pix2Geomodel.v2 for complex facies settings, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-2220, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-2220, 2026.