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Get the physics right. Genuinely integrated hydraulic fracture and reservoir simulation.
- 2022 ResFrac Annual Symposium
- A shale booster shot: ‘Re-fracs’ rise as cheap way to lift U.S. oil output
- Why Multistage Stimulation Could Transform the Geothermal Industry
- TWA Energy Influencers 2021
- Frac Tech: Simulation Sheds Light On Complex Relationships Between Parent-Child Wells
- Obserintelligence Podcast interviews ResFrac CEO Mark McClure
- Hart Energy Profiles ResFrac as Innovative, Disruptive Technology
- ResFrac Office Hours: Automated history matching to fracture geometries as measured by Volume to First Response (VFR)
- Industry Insight at SPE ATCE: Practical Perspectives in Unconventional Reservoirs
- ResFrac Fundamentals Training October 5-6
The industry’s only fully coupled hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator
Fully integrated simulator
Multiphase flow, 3D fracture mechanics, proppant transport, poroelastic stresses, wellbore dynamics, and thermal effects. Mesh cracks as cracks.
Solve cutting-edge problems
Synthesize complex field-scale datasets to make practical decisions. Mitigate parent/child impacts, triple recovery factor with EOR, and design geothermal systems.
Proven impact on capital efficiency
Impacted 35+ operators by optimizing well spacing, cluster spacing, stage length, perforation design, fluid and proppant loading, and more.
Set-up for success
Industry-leading user-interface and cloud-based tools. Detailed documentation and training. Close collaboration with ResFrac’s expert team.
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Test designs in a virtual environment before implementing them in the field
- Integrate with your existing workflows Physics-based simulation is synergistic with data analytics and field data collection. Synthesize field data and accelerate the process of continuous improvement.
- Two modes of engagement We offer direct software licensing, consulting services, or a mix of both. Solutions fit for any size company - from small independents to supermajors and NOCs.
- Collaboration and experience We have worked with 35+ companies in every major shale plan in North America and co-authored 15 papers and case studies.
Physics-based simulation is synergistic with data analytics and field data collection. Synthesize field data and accelerate the process of continuous improvement.
Engineers and executives both love ResFrac
Engineers and geoscientists
ResFrac’s modeling solution couples hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulation, enabling you to simulate the full well life cycle in a single continuous simulation. Detailed, transparent technical documentation. Modern UI with built-in help content and wizards. Extensive training and user-support.
Senior leaders
Under pressure to maximize free cash flow? We help your team unlock value by iterating to the best design faster. Under pressure to increase reserves? We help mitigate parent/child problems, design enhanced oil recovery to multiply reserves, and develop cutting edge technologies.
Recent content from the ResFrac blog

Automated history matching to fracture geometries as measured by Volume to First Response (VFR): A Tutorial
In this post, I will walk through a simple example of using SWPM to calibrate the fracture geometries of a hypothetical data set leveraging the ResFrac Automated History Matching functionality to expedite the workflow. In a follow-on post, I use the model to demonstrate some intuitions on fracture geometry using the Sensitivity Analysis functionality as well as some nuances of VFR calibration.

Highlights on propagation from preexisting fractures in ResFrac
The purpose of this blog post is to cover recently developed ResFrac capability that allows investigation of the effect of natural fractures on hydraulic fracture propagation. While this option has always been available for the ‘discrete’ propagation algorithm, now it also has become available for the ‘continuous’ algorithm. There are some noticeable changes compared to the previous implementation and they are covered next.

ResFrac’s Automated Economic Optimization Tool
ResFrac’s automated optimization tool allows you to quickly and easily identify the economically best well spacing and frac design. This blog post steps through a simple demo of our built-in economics engine that is similar to those used by commercial software in the industry. It accounts for details such as working interest, different types of taxes, time-varying operations cost, etc.