Determination of representative wells to characterize subsurface regions

A system for determining wells to represent a subsurface region, the system comprising:

• one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
• obtain subsurface representation information defining a subsurface representation, the subsurface representation defining simulated subsurface configuration of a simulated subsurface region, the simulated subsurface region including simulated wells;
• determine properties of interest for the simulated subsurface region based on the simulated subsurface configuration of the simulated subsurface region;
• determine extent of similarity between individual ones of the simulated wells and other ones of the simulated wells based on comparison of the simulated subsurface configuration of the simulated wells, wherein spatial representative coverage of an individual simulated well for the simulated subsurface region is determined based on thresholding the extent of similarity between the individual simulated well and other simulated wells;
• and
• select representative wells from the simulated wells, the representative wells selected based on the properties of interest for the simulated subsurface region and the spatial representative coverage of the simulated wells, wherein the representative wells are selected to achieve desired spatial representative coverage for the simulated subsurface region and to achieve desired representation of the properties of interest for the simulated subsurface region.