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- Automated History Matching and Economic Optimization of an Eagle Ford Refrac
- ResFrac Retreat in Colorado
- Commentary on Four New DFIT Papers: (a) Direct In-Situ Measurements of Fracture Opening/Closing from the EGS Collab Project; (b) Comparison of Stress Measurement Techniques from the Bedretto Project; (c) a Statistical Summary of 62 DFITs Interpretations Across Nine Shale Plays; and (d) A Different Perspective: An Article Advocating the Use of the Tangent Method
- Notable Papers from SPE HFTC 2022
- Four ResFrac papers at HFTC 2022!
- Understanding fracture morphology
- Why Multistage Stimulation Could Transform the Geothermal Industry
- ResFrac Endurance Team takes on The Triple Bypass
- ResFrac user meeting
- ResFrac Endurance Team: Race Reports
- ResFrac Updates: New Website, New Logo, and New Crack Propagation Algorithm (MuLTipEl)
- TWA Energy Influencers 2021
- ResFrac Endurance Team
- Epistemic Challenges for Subsurface Engineering, Part II: Creating Value with a Hypothesis-Driven Workflow
- Epistemic Challenges for Subsurface Engineering, Part I: The Persistence of False Beliefs
- Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
- Why Multistage Stimulation is the Most Exciting Idea in Geothermal
- Notable Papers from HFTC 2021
- Frac Tech: Simulation Sheds Light On Complex Relationships Between Parent-Child Wells
- Recorded ARMA HFC ‘Warm-Up’ series webinar – A Continuous Fracture Front Tracking Algorithm with Multi-Layer Tip Elements (MuLTipEl)
- What’s New: HFTC, the Parent/Child Industry Study, HFTS2, Supercritical Geothermal, DFIT, and Automated History Matching
- Introducing ResFrac’s Sensitivity Analysis Tools
- The ResFrac Parent/Child Industry Study has Kicked Off!
- Why Deep Closed-Loop Geothermal Is Guaranteed To Fail
- Integrated Reservoir Modeling Supports a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- The Value of Subsurface Modeling
- Theoretical and Empirical Problems with the Holistic Permeability Correlation for DFIT Interpretation
- Calibration of Wellbore Pressure During and After Fracturing
- Best Practices in Interpretation of DFIT Tests for Shmin, Permeability, and Pore Pressure
- Obserintelligence Podcast interviews ResFrac CEO Mark McClure
- Modeling Frac Hit Damage in ResFrac
- Another Boulder on the Pile of Evidence Against the Tangent Method of Picking Fracture Closure
- 2020 ResFrac Symposium
- Hart Energy Profiles ResFrac as Innovative, Disruptive Technology
- Collaborating with whitson to Improve ResFrac’s Fluid Modeling
- With Lower Prices, Operators Need to Reoptimize Well Spacing and Frac Design
- The New ResFrac User Interface
- ResFrac Closes a Round of Equity Financing from Altira Group
- ResFrac Corporation Closes Equity Financing with Altira Group and Launches New User Interface
- Recorded ARMA ‘Robe Talk’ – The Case for Planar Fracture Modeling
- ResFrac Simulation Training
- ResFrac Office Hours
- ResFrac on the Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
- HFTC 2020
- Questions Over Permeability Prompt Producer-Led Group To Rebuild Key Fracture Diagnostic
- Joe Frantz Joins ResFrac Team
- ATCE Startup Competition Names People’s Choice and Rising Star Winners
- University Group Lists “Most Promising” Oil & Gas Startups of the Year
- The Case for Planar Fracture Models
- New Modeling Code Sees Deep Inside Fractures, May Change Thinking on Well Spacing
- Using RTA to Aid ResFrac History Matching
- DFIT Study Update
- Do fractures propagate symmetrically?
- Applying ResFrac to Optimize Cluster Spacing
- The effect of depletion on DFIT pressure and stress measurements
- A new core-across study may lead to a paradigm shift in our understanding of hydraulic fracturing in shale
- Craig et al. (2017) present data and claim it refutes the fracture compliance method – actually, it shows the exact opposite
- Fluid conduction in closed fractures and implications for DFIT interpretation
- Postclosure DFIT interpretation: Demystifying the Linear Flow Time Function
- Curving G-function plots and picking closure
- Demystifying the G-function
- How to plot a DFIT
- DFIT, LOT, XLOT, Minifrac, Microfrac, Fracture Calibration Test: Navigating the Terminology
- Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests: The Basics
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Recent content from the ResFrac blog
Automated History Matching and Economic Optimization of an Eagle Ford Refrac
In this blog post, we review a refracturing and economic optimization case study. The model and history match are loosely based on “SPE Data Repository Well #1,” a publicly available refracturing and production dataset from the Eagle Ford shale. This post extends the analysis that we presented at a recent SPE workshop, “What New for PTA and RTA”.
ResFrac Retreat in Colorado
For the first time in more than two years, the entire (almost!) ResFrac team gathered in Denver. We mixed education (thank you to our friends at Liberty Services for showing us the nuts and bolts of frac’ing)…… with fun.
Commentary on Four New DFIT Papers: (a) Direct In-Situ Measurements of Fracture Opening/Closing from the EGS Collab Project; (b) Comparison of Stress Measurement Techniques from the Bedretto Project; (c) a Statistical Summary of 62 DFITs Interpretations Across Nine Shale Plays; and (d) A Different Perspective: An Article Advocating the Use of the Tangent Method
This post provides commentary on recent four papers on diagnostic fracture injection testing (DFIT). The first paper uses in-situ deformation measurements to directly observe fractures opening and closing during fracture injection-falloff tests (Guglielmi et al., 2022). The second compares various stress measurement techniques in a series of fracture/injection tests from the Bedretto project (Bröker and Ma, 2022). The third statistically reviews results from applying the interpretation procedure from McClure et al. (2019) to 62 DFITs across nine different shale plays (McClure et al., 2022). The fourth is an op-ed written in JPT (Journal of Petroleum Technology) by an advocate of the tangent method for estimating DFIT closure stress (Buijs, 2021; 2022). This article presupposes that the reader already has familiarity with these topics. If you would like more background, please refer to McClure et al. (2019).
