Bryn Stenhouse

• Managing Director at StenhouseSimulations Ltd

Recent technological advances in the oil and gas industry such as extended reach drilling, subsea processing and tiebacks from satellite fields have added to the complexity of daily operations. With a myriad of flow conditions, the dynamic interactions between different components of the gathering system can be significant. Deciphering these flow i...

Managing and optimising BP's integrated operations presents an increasingly complex challenge with the move to deeper- water production and the use of sub-sea processing and multiphase tiebacks from satellite fields. Production system optimisation requires the simultaneous assessment of flow stability and well draw-down maximisation whilst honourin...

This paper discusses the role of modelling and optimisation in BP's FIELD OF THE FUTURE Short-Loop optimisation programme. The focus is on the short-term optimisation of oil and gas production subject to the constraints imposed by hydrocarbon reservoir management and the associated protection of reserves. Reservoir modelling itself is not discussed...

Full field optimisation is a key element of BP's FIELD OF THE FUTURE technology strategy aimed at delivering a capability for remote operation and remote performance management of BP's upstream producing assets. Field of today, Valhall, is a BP operated asset in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea with a track record of applying model-based optim...

A model structure of amorphous carbon is investigated incorporating layered domains connected by means of a random network, the relative proportions of the two regions being a variable of the model. It is shown that for a certain relative proportion of the two regions there is good agreement between the predicted and experimentally observed electro...

The linear combination of atomic orbitals description of a covalent bond has been modelled as a superposition of two (identical) spherical charge distributions centred on the nuclei and a third (different) spherical distribution at the bond centre. Using this model of the covalent bond density, plus nuclear-nuclear, nuclear-bond centre and bond cen...

Random network structure factors for SiO2 are presented, with scattering intensities. For amorphous silicon a chemical bond description plus “scaling” of SiO2 correlations shows that neutron and X-ray data can be combined to extract Si-bond centre correlations.