Knowledge map
Two decades, mapped.
The fields, methods and publications behind the writing: what I have worked on, where, and what I have published.
Domains
What the work covers
Reservoir engineering & simulation
- Gas condensate and tight gas
- Mature-field redevelopment and infill
- History matching and uncertainty
- Naturally fractured and dual-porosity systems
- Open-source simulation
Fracturing & well performance
- Hydraulic fracture evaluation (PhD)
- Net-pressure and well-test integration
- Well placement and path optimisation
Decisions & capital
- Unitisation and equity
- Value of information and pilot design
- FDP benchmarking
- Investor-grade risk framing
Energy transition
- Natural hydrogen appraisal
- CO2 storage in depleted fields
- Modular gas-to-power
- Reservoir souring
Health systems
- Regenerative-medicine regulation
- Hospital investment cases
- Evidence and registries
Where
Basins and regions
UK Southern, Central and Northern North Sea; Dutch offshore; North Africa; Spain; the Middle East; US onshore fractured-reservoir workflows. With SLB, Eni, E.ON, RWE, Premier Oil, Cepsa and INEOS, plus independent advisory work.
Standing
Credentials
- SPEMember, SPE International Reservoirs Directorate Committee; working on subsurface and FDP benchmarking standards
- UofGHonorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
- PhDPetroleum Engineering, Teesside University: integrated evaluation of hydraulic fracturing
- MBAExecutive MBA, Quantic School of Business and Technology
- MScMSc and BSc, Petroleum University of Technology: gas condensate reservoirs
- 2015Presented research at the UK Parliament (SET for Britain)
Published research
Selected publications
Full and current list on Google Scholar and ORCID.
- 2018Modeling the risk of commercial failure for hydraulic fracturing projects due to reservoir heterogeneityEnergies 11(1), 218
- 2018A comprehensive integrated approach to evaluation of hydraulic fracturingPhD thesis, Teesside University
- 2017Robust and flexible hydrocarbon production forecasting considering the heterogeneity impact for hydraulically fractured wellsEnergy & Fuels 31(8), 8481–8488
- 2017Evaluation of heterogeneity impact on hydraulic fracturing performanceJournal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 154, 344–353
- 2015Hydraulic fracturing performance evaluation in tight sand gas reservoirs with high-permeability streaks and natural fracturesSPE EUROPEC, Madrid
- 2015A practical workflow for offshore hydraulic fracturing modelling, focusing on the Southern North SeaSPE EUROPEC, Madrid
- 2014A global optimization technique using gradient information for history matchingEnergy Sources, Part A 36(13)
- 2013Dynamic matrix-fracture transfer behaviour in dual-porosity modelsEAGE/SPE EUROPEC, London
- 2012Automatic history matching using response surface modelling and a genetic algorithmPetroleum Science and Technology 30(4)
- 2012Optimization of wellhead location selection and well path designPetroleum Science and Technology 30(21)
- 2012Pseudo relative permeability compensation for numerical dispersionPetroleum Science and Technology 30(15)
- 2011Well path optimization workflow based on reservoir opportunity indexWorld Heavy Oil Congress
- 2008Analysis of capillary number effects on gas condensate reservoir performanceGas Field Development Symposium, Kuwait