Development of continuous estimates of the least principal stress with depth for application to multi‑stage hydraulic fracturing

Paper published in the February 2026 publication of Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, Volume 12, Article 49, 2026.

StageOpt technical write-up

This paper was published on arXiv on November 2, 2023.

Augmented Drainage Development (ADD) – An Evaluation of Field Development Applications in the Bakken

Paper presented at the SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, June 2025.

Case Studies Applying a Wellbore-Proppant Simulator in the Midland Basin, Montney, and Bakken Shale Plays

Paper published in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-energy and Geo-resources 11, 110 (2025).

Impacts of Variations of the Minimum Horizontal Stress on Hydraulic Fracture Growth and Microseismicity

Paper presented at the 56th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 2022.