Reliable identification of a fracture flowrate is essential to successful reservoir exploration and optimization.
We developed a machine learning approach to identify fracture flowrate from spatiotemporal
wellbore temperature measurements. A long short-term memory fully convolutional network
was employed to jointly detect fractures intersecting the wellbore and quantify their contribution to
the overall flow during fluid injection. Training data for the algorithm were generated by a wellbore
and fractured-reservoir thermal model. The machine learning algorithm trained on single injectionstage
temperature shows high fracture flowrate estimation accuracy on synthetic validation cases. It
outperforms an optimization-based particle swarm optimization method on a real field case. For the
machine learning method, the fusion of various-stage temperature as the input feature set improves
the robustness of fracture detection and flowrate estimation to noise interference.