Library Category: Office Hours

Hydraulic fracturing has quickly become the go-to simulation method for unconventional geothermal/EGS, creating flow pathways and strong production uplift. But it’s value doesn’t stop there. For this month’s Office Hours, Julian McDowell shared insights on

Running a high-fidelity simulation of the full well life cycle takes real work! Now we’re making it easier to share that work. Our new report generator exports summaries of your simulations- you can upload your

For this month’s Office Hours, Chris Ponners continued a walkthrough of the new capabilities introduced in the ResFracPro June release. He covered new economic calculation options spanning oil and gas, geothermal, and EOR applications; expanded

For this month’s Office Hours we had Chris Ponners, our Customer Support Lead, give a presentation highlighting new capabilities introduced in our June release. There are so many updates to share that we’ll be continuing

For this month’s Office Hours, Mark McClure gave a live demonstration of FracTest, ResFrac’s soon-to-be-released web-based DFIT interpretation application. FracTest streamlines the traditionally complex DFIT workflow, guides users through critical interpretation decisions, and helps engineers

For this month’s Office Hours, Danial Zeinabady, Senior Software Developer at ResFrac, presented a new ResFracPro feature that enables modeling of full-lateral wells using a multisector approach.

This features allows users to capture completion design

For this month’s ResFrac Office Hours, we had a presentation from Jiehao Wang, Geomechanics Specialist with Chevron, titled “Drainage Fracture Height Characterization Using Rayleigh Frequency Shift Distributed Strain Sensing (RFS-DSS) in a Vertical Monitoring Well

For this month’s Office Hours, we had a discussion on how to match perforation erosion and uniformity in ResFracPro, and best practices on integrating StageOpt and ResFracPro into a single workflow.

For this month’s Office Hours, we had a presentation from Serhii Kryvenko, Reservoir Engineer on ExxonMobil’s Unconventional Tech Team, titled “Proppant Trapping and Washout in Rough Hydraulic Fractures.”

In this month’s ResFrac Office Hours, Garrett Fowler tackled a curated set of frequently asked questions from our ResFrac support threads, sharing practical troubleshooting guidance, workflow best practices, and answers to common modeling questions encountered

For December Office Hours, ResFrac User Success Lead, Chris Ponners, shared a presentation with tips and tricks for using Python to post-process simulations and create fiber-optic-style waterfall strain plots.

For our November Office Hours, ResFrac Geothermal Lead Koenraad Beckers presented “Flow Control Devices to Improve Thermal Longevity and Techno-Economics of Enhanced Geothermal Systems.” This presentation addresses the critical challenge of non-uniform fracture flow in

  For October Office Hours, Garrett Fowler and Egor Dontsov reviewed the latest updates on modeling horizontal fractures based on their paper at IHFTC two weeks ago and subsequent investigations on the production impact of

For September Office Hours, we had a presentation from Chris Ponners spotlighting some new features released so far in 2025 as well as a preview of features in the upcoming release. Historical highlights include: (a)

For ResFrac August Office Hours, we had a presentation from ResFrac Reservoir and Completions Technical Team Lead, Ankush Singh, on his recently published paper “Designing the Record-Breaking Enhanced Geothermal System at Project Cape.” This paper

For ResFrac July Office Hours, we had a presentation from ResFrac Reservoir and Completions Technical team lead, Sama Morsy, on her recently published paper, “Blind Testing Simulator Predictions of Refracturing Performance in the Bakken and

For April Office Hours, we had a presentation from Chris Ponners on recent developments in our current ResApps– IntTest and StageOpt. For interference testing, IntTest now supports both drawdown and buildup tests as well as

For March Office Hours, we had a a presentation from ResFrac Chief Scientist Egor Dontsov, titled, “Horizontal hydraulic fractures in ResFrac”. Horizontal hydraulic fractures are becoming harder to ignore, as more indisputable field evidence supports

For February Office Hours, we had a presentation from ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer Ankush Singh, on his recently published paper, “Far-field Drainage Along Hydraulic Fractures: Insights From Integrated Modeling Studies in the Bakken

For January Office Hours, we had a presentation on some upcoming new software features– advanced unit systems, black oil fluid regions, and slot flow simulations in ResFracPro.

As many of you know, we had a major ResFracPro update that went out on November 4th for both the simulator and user interface. Highlights include: (a) the advanced ‘proppant transport from the well’ capabilities

For October Office Hours, we had a presentation by Egor Dontsov, ResFrac Chief Scientist, on his recent blog post, “Advanced ‘proppant transport in the well’ capabilities are now implemented in ResFrac.”

Aggressive drawdown on unconventional wells commonly leads to the return of proppant pumped during the stimulation treatment, reducing propped fracture aperture, with potential impact on hydrocarbon production. Despite being identified by the available literature as

Recently, JPT did a write-up of Hess and ResFrac’s URTeC paper: The Perfect Frac Stage, What’s the value? For our August Office Hours, we had a presentation from Ankush Singh, taking a look back at

For July Office Hours, we had a presentation from Chris Ponners, on interpretation methodologies for interference testing in shale, including new insights in the Chow Pressure Group, the Devon Quantification of Interference (DQI) technique, and

For June Office Hours, Garrett Fowler reviews the new features in the current and previous ResFracPro releases, including the functionality to run simulations faster using more cores!

For May Office Hours, Rohan Irvin, ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, presented “Modeling of Hydraulic Stimulation and long-term circulation at the Utah FORGE Geothermal Project.” The presentation is based on and references a paper

For April Office Hours, Dave Ratcliff, ResFrac Director of User Success, presented on dashboards and visualization techniques. Dave discussed common methods of analyzing these simulations, including recommended line plots and 3D attributes. Listen in and

For this month’s Office Hours, we had a presentation by Greg Leveille, former CTO of ConocoPhillips, followed by a Q+A with participants. Greg’s presentation is titled, “Hydraulically Fractured Horizontal Wells are about to Disrupt the

For this month’s Office Hours, we had a demo (and sneak peek) of the soon-to-be-released IntTest ResApp, by ResFrac Director of ResApps Operations, John McGrath. This ResApp implements two techniques for shale-well interference test interpretation

For this month’s Office Hours, we enjoyed a presentation from ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, Chris Ponners, titled, “Generalizing the DQI Method: Predicting Production Interference for Generic Gun Barrel Configurations.”

For Office Hours this month, we had a demo of the latest and greatest features in ResFracPro.

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer Chris Ponners on setting up pressure interference tests in ResFrac.

For September Office Hours, we had presentations by Egor Dontsov and Mark McClure, introducing ResFrac’s newest app, StageOpt. StageOpt calculates proppant transport from the wellbore and helps you optimize perf design to maximize the uniformity

For this month’s Office Hours, we have a presentation on “Sampling Schemes for Sensitivity Analysis” by ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, Chris Ponners. Chris discusses the details of the various sampling schemes provided in

For this month’s Office Hours, we have a review from ResFrac COO, Garrett Fowler, of a paper he presented at last week’s URETEC 2023, “A Success Story: Screening and Optimizing Refracs in the Eagle Ford,”

For Office Hours this month, we enjoyed a presentation from Well Data Labs’ Karen Olson, reviewing her case study from HFTS-1 Phase 3, where she used SWPM to estimate volume to first response for different

This presentation discusses a model to simulate the behavior of particle-laden slurry in a horizontal perforated wellbore with the goal of quantifying particle distribution between perforations. There are two primary phenomena that influence the result.

For January Office Hours, we had a presentation from ResFrac CEO, Mark McClure, discussing his SPE paper, “Results from a Collaborative Parent/Child Industry Study: Permian Basin.”

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation from ResFrac Director of User Success, Dave Ratcliff. He presented a Complex Economic Optimization workflow where he explains how to vary stage length, cluster count, and

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation from ResFrac Director of User Success, Dave Ratcliff. He presented a Complex Economic Optimization workflow where he explains how to vary stage length, cluster count, and

For this month’s Office Hours, we had a presentation from ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, Ankush Singh, on modeling CO2 injection and long-term storage using ResFrac. The true injection capacity of a CO 2

For this Office Hours, Garrett Fowler reviews his recent blog post, “Automated history matching to fracture geometries as measured by Volume to First Response (VFR): A Tutorial.”

For Office Hours this month, ResFrac Director of User Success, Dave Ratcliff, gave a review of his 2022 HFTC paper with Devon, Modeling of Parent-Child Well Interactions.

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation from ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer, Rohan Irvin, on optimizing well spacing and completion design using simulation models calibrated to the Hydraulic Fracture Test Site

This Office Hours presentation from Mark McClure on refracturing, automated history matching, and automated economic optimization covers a ResFrac case study using a public ‘refrac’ dataset on which we perform an automated history match to

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation from Mark McClure entitled, “Direct Validation of DFIT Interpretations from In-Situ Strain Measurements,” reviewing a presentation he gave on April 11, 2022, at Saga Wisdom’s Sökkvabekkr

For this Office Hours, we continued the topic introduced by Professor Mark Zoback on the recent updates to the North American Stress Map with a presentation by ResFrac’s Ankush Singh on predicting stress profiles from

For this Office Hours, we had a presentation from Professor Mark Zoback on the recent updates to the North American Stress Map.

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation from Garrett Fowler, ResFrac Chief Operating Officer, entitled, “The Impact of Extended-time Proppant Conductivity Impairment on the Ultimate Recovery from Unconventional Horizontal Well Completions.”

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation by Charles A. Kang, ResFrac Chief Technology Officer. Charles did an intro and demo of the newly launched automated history matching tool in ResFrac.

Sama Morsy presents her 2021 paper with Chevron on Unconventional Optimized Strategy Development Workflow, discussing completion design optimization due to depletion and also the preloading process to safeguard against damage to parent and child wells

For this Office Hours, Garrett gives us a sneak peek into the newest ResFrac release, which includes the industry-leading MulTipEl algorithm (continuous fracture propagation).

This month, we had a presentation from ResFrac Senior Consulting Engineer, Dr. Ankush Singh, entitled, “Stress variations with depth and hydraulic fracture optimization”. He covers material from SPE papers “Optimization of Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing in

For Office Hours this month, we had a conversation with Mark McClure on his recent findings and observations on structured field testing, as motivated by his recent due of blog posts: “Epistemic Challenges in Subsurface

For Office Hours this month, we had a presentation on modeling cross well fiber in ResFrac, by Dr. Mojtaba Shahri. Dr. Shahri presented the findings from his HFTC paper “High Fidelity Fibre-Optic Observations and Resultant

For Office Hours this month, Garrett gives a high-level overview of geothermal modeling in ResFrac. He discusses geothermal model setup in ResFrac, and uses a base case to demonstrate principles of geothermal modeling – the

For this Office Hours, we have a presentation from Chris Hewson on using corner point models within ResFrac.

As you may have heard, we’ve got some big updates to ResFrac! Over the last year, our team has been working on ResFrac 3.0. The first phase of this is automated sensitivity analysis. For Office

For Office Hours this month, Garrett draws on his experience at ResFrac in this discussion on structuring simulation studies with regards to proppant loading. He covers the business motivations for proppant optimization, setup considerations in

For this Office Hours, Garrett discusses stage length sensitivities, how to structure those investigations within ResFrac, and common evaluation metrics to optimize stage length. He gave a short sneak preview into well spacing, which will

For this Office Hours, we have a presentation from Garrett on cluster spacing sensitivity–why it matters and best practices for optimizing it.

For this Office Hours virtual presentation, we have a talk from Dr. Egor Dontsov entitled “Hydraulic Fractures: From Petals to Pancakes”. This talk sheds the light on the possible variability of qualitative behavior of multiple

For Office Hours on 3 Nov 2020, we discussed some of the nuances of setting up well spacing sensitivities for complicated well trajectories and then went through a demonstration in ResFrac.

For Office Hours on 20 Oct 2020, we had a demonstration from Garrett Fowler on the Well Import panel in ResFrac, and how to properly set up and view a well in the model.

For Office Hours on 22 Sept 2020 we had a guest presentation by Dave Ratcliff, ResFrac Senior Consulting Engineer, and Petrophysicist, discussing the Peril of Non-unique Solutions in simulation results and how to troubleshoot common

For Office Hours on 8 Sept 2020, we began what is sure to be a longer conversation on interpreting simulations and presenting results–looking at common plots and visualizations for comparing simulations. We also answered a

For Office Hours on 25Aug2020, we had a guest presentation from petrophysicist and ResFrac Senior Consulting Engineer, Dave Ratcliff on diagnostics for fracture geometry and propped region tuning.

For Office Hours on 11 Aug 2020, we had a demo from Mark McClure on the recently added frac hit damage factor. We also review new plotting features and group plots in ResFrac.

For Office Hours on 28 July 2020, Garrett discusses advanced perforation inputs meant to help account for real-world uncertainties within the model: perforation diameter variance and perforation random initiation distance.

For Office Hours 14 July 2020, we have a guest demo from ResFrac CIO Soma on how to use the ResFrac Command Line Interface, and Garrett answers a question from a user regarding how to

This week, we followed up on what was covered at the ResFrac virtual simulation training course and answered questions from participants regarding the assigned homework and using the ResFrac model.

This week for ResFrac office hours, we talked about Mark’s latest blog post on why the optimal frac design is a function of commodity prices. We continued our discussion from last week on refrac modeling

This week we took a look a some of the considerations to keep in mind when setting up refrac models and some initial validations.

This week’s discussion previews the May 2020 ResFrac software updates from Mark McClure. This is a major update with substantial changes to both the ResFrac simulator and the user-interface, and we’re excited to show you

We had a great session this week for ResFrac Office Hours. We continued our discussion on History Matching workflow. Audio starts at 00:15. Enjoy!