Sadeq Shahamat

Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer

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Sadeq Shahamat is a Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer at ResFrac, where he helps energy companies maximize asset value and operational performance through reservoir characterization, and integrated fracture, geomechanics and reservoir modeling.

With over 15 years of academic and industry experience, Sadeq blends traditional reservoir engineering with ML and advanced analytics. Prior to ResFrac, Sadeq held technical roles and led initiatives at Birchcliff Energy – characterizing the Montney asset, applying predictive/prescriptive analytics, and automating analytical/simulation workflows and processes to reduce CapEx, streamline decision-making and optimize asset development. Earlier in his career, he worked at IHS Global Canada and Fekete Associates Inc. as a subject matter expert in pressure and rate transient analysis (PTA & RTA), and welltest interpretation.

Sadeq holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary, along with dual MSc and MEng degrees from the Petroleum University of Technology and University of Calgary. He has published over 15 papers in various SPE conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Outside of work, Sadeq is passionate about lifelong learning, particularly in data science and finance, and enjoys spending quality time outdoors and at home with family.

Sadeq's posts

$Horizontal fracture initiated along weak bedding plane or frictional interface in ResFrac$

Horizontal hydraulic fractures in ResFrac

Horizontal hydraulic fracture propagation is believed to be widespread in shale plays where the frac gradient approaches the overburden – such as the Vaca Muerta, Utica, and Montney. However, horizontal propagation is nearly always ignored in hydraulic fracture modeling. In ResFrac, we are obsessed with ‘getting the physics right’, and so naturally, we extended our simulator to handle horizontal fracturing. The first version of this new capability was released earlier this year. We are eager to start collecting feedback from users, which will help us to fine tune the algorithm and workflow.

Advanced ‘proppant transport in the well’ capabilities are now implemented in ResFrac!

Proppant transport in the well is an intriguing topic that has attracted a lot of interest in recent years [1-8]. Proppant transport processes determine the uniformity of proppant placement, which has a direct impact on productivity. Cipolla et al. estimate that the difference between poor and excellent proppant uniformity is about $2.5M in net present value per well.

Digesting the Bonkers, Incredible, Off-the-Charts, Spectacular Results from the Fervo and FORGE Enhanced Geothermal Projects

I’m out of superlatives – I used them all up in the title. But seriously – Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) projects have had a really, really good summer. In this article, I summarize the results that have been recently presented by Fervo and FORGE. At their annual Tech Day and in a white paper posted this week (Norbeck et al., 2024), Fervo Energy provided their first update on Project Cape, a Utah project where they are developing 400 MWe of new production over the next two years. So far, fourteen wells have been drilled, and three of them have been stimulated.