The Simultaneous Determination of Archie's Parameters by Application of Modified Genetic Algorithm and HDP Methods: A Comparison with Current Methods via Two Case Studies

Although different procedures have been proposed to calculate the parameters of Archie's (1942) equation, most of them suffer from lack of accuracy because these are not solved simultaneously In this article, by applying two novel methods, a modified genetic algorithm (MGA) and homogeneous distribution of parameters (HDP), the above-mentioned unknown parameters were determined simultaneously. Furthermore, for two case studies using two data sets from Permian Glerito and Permian Clearfork reservoirs, a comparison is made between other methods (e.g., traditional graphical method and SmnaM; Frailey et al., 2001) and the proposed methods that demonstrated the greater accuracy of the two newly proposed methods, though they showed more sensitivity to random scattering of data. Consequently, reliable accuracy of the proposed methods makes their application for solving similar engineering problems attractive.