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- What ‘company culture’ means to us
- Horizontal hydraulic fractures in shales: are they real?
- Previewing the Seven(!) ResFrac Papers to be Presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference
- Welcoming Dr. Thomas Finkbeiner to the team as a Senior Technical Advisor
- Notable papers from the 2024 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference
- Introducing StageOpt – State-of-the-Art Calculations for Optimizing Perforation Design
- Recent Recorded Talks on EGS and DFIT
- Practical guidelines for DFIT interpretation using the ‘compliance method’ procedure from URTeC-2019-123
- Thermoelastic fracturing and buoyancy-driven convection – Surprising sources of longevity for EGS circulation
- Fervo Energy’s ‘Project Red’ Results Are a Historic Breakthrough for Geothermal Energy – What Comes Next?
- ResFrac at the Comrades Marathon in South Africa (an Ultramarathon)
- Impact of well orientation on well productivity
- Recorded ARMA HFC 2023 Series Presentation– Optimization of Perforation Phasing for Improving Uniformity of Proppant Distribution Between Clusters
- ResFrac at the Breckenridge Imperial Challenge
- Technical barriers for deep closed-loop geothermal
- Modeling simulfracs and subsurface implications
- A New Approach for Interference Test Analysis: Quantifying the Degree of Production Impact
- Optimization of perforation orientation for achieving uniform proppant distribution between clusters
- Interesting papers from the 2023 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference
- Proppant distribution between perforation clusters
- Simulating ‘Fractal Fracture Swarms’ in a General-Purpose Reservoir Simulator
- How to Diagnose False Radial Flow in a Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT)
- Reflections from the 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference
- Automated history matching to fracture geometries as measured by Volume to First Response (VFR): A Tutorial
- Highlights on propagation from preexisting fractures in ResFrac
- ResFrac’s Automated Economic Optimization Tool
- 2022 ResFrac Annual Symposium
- A shale booster shot: ‘Re-fracs’ rise as cheap way to lift U.S. oil output
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Modeling Frac Hit Damage in ResFrac
- Another Boulder on the Pile of Evidence Against the Tangent Method of Picking Fracture Closure
- 2020 ResFrac Symposium
- 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
- Recorded ARMA ‘Robe Talk’ – The Case for Planar Fracture Modeling
- ResFrac Simulation Training
- ResFrac Office Hours
- HFTC 2020
- Joe Frantz Joins ResFrac Team
- The Case for Planar Fracture Models
- 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
What ‘company culture’ means to us
We recently held our annual company retreat. This is an important event because we are a fully remote company, and it gives us the chance to get together in-person and spend quality time. This year, we did the retreat in Houston, following URTeC and our annual symposium. We visited Space Center Houston, went to an Astros game, and ate BBQ and Tex-Mex. As a Houston native, I picked some of my favorite things to do in town! We also held a meeting on ‘company culture.’ I asked the group – how do you perceive our company culture? What do we do well, and what could we do better? Here are the highlights.
Horizontal hydraulic fractures in shales: are they real?
In ResFrac, we are always challenging ourselves—what should we be doing better? What new capabilities should we add to the simulator? One of our newest projects is adding horizontal fracture propagation. Under most conditions, hydraulic fractures form vertically, not laterally. However, in specific circumstances, horizontal fractures develop. Sometimes, they form in addition to vertical fractures, and sometimes, they form exclusively without any vertical fractures. Horizontal fracture propagation has not conventionally been included in commercial hydraulic fracturing simulators, but we think this is a capability well-worth developing.
Previewing the Seven(!) ResFrac Papers to be Presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference
Next week, ResFrac will be coauthoring seven papers at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC). These papers include: operator case studies in the Haynesville, Marcellus, and Bakken, a study quantifying the effect of proppant uniformity on production and economics, a new procedure generalizing the Devon Quantification of Interference (DQI) method, and an excellent paper by a University of Texas PhD student on proppant flowback.
