Author(s)

Olugbenga Falode¹, Christopher Udomboso²

¹Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
²Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Since the discovery of oil and gas in Nigeria in 1956, much gas has been flared because the operators pay little or no concern to its utilization, and as such, trillions of dollars have been lost. In this paper, a model is proposed using Time Series Regression Model (TSRM) and Time Series Neural Network (TSNN) to model the production, utilization and flaring of natural gas in Nigeria with the ultimate aim of observing the trend of each activity. The results show that TSNN has better predictive and forecasting capabilities compared to TSRN. It is also observed that the higher the hidden neurons, the lower the error generated by the TSNN.

Natural Gas, Production, Utilization, Flaring, TSRM, TSNN, Model Selection

Falode, O. and Udomboso, C. (2016) Predictive Modeling of Gas Production, Utilization and Flaring in Nigeria using TSRM and TSNN: A Comparative Approach. Open Journal of Statistics, 6, 194-207. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2016.61017.