Danial Zeinabady

Senior Software Developer

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Before joining ResFrac, Danial served as a reservoir engineering specialist at ShearFrac, where he spearheaded the development of a fully automated application for real-time post-fracture pressure decay analysis. He holds a PhD in petroleum engineering from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor’s degree in reservoir engineering from the Petroleum University of Technology in Iran. During his doctoral research, Danial focused on advancing the design and analysis of the diagnostic fracture injection test-flowback analysis (DFIT-FBA) method. During this time, he collaborated with leading oil and gas companies such as Ovintiv, Birchcliff Energy, ConocoPhillips, Origin Energy, TotalEnergies, and Encino Energy to implement the DFIT-FBA technique.

In his free time, Danial enjoys hiking, playing squash, volleyball, and avidly following mixed martial arts, football, and soccer.

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$Figure 2. The ResFrac model of the original completion: tall fractures that grow up into overlying benches while proppant stays mostly in the target interval.$

Targeting the reserves between clusters: modeling strategic refracs and infills in ResFrac

Older, wide-spacing Delaware Basin wells can leave high-pressure rock stranded between fractures. Devon used ResFrac to design liner refracs whose peak rates came in within 1% of forecast, and to show why an offset infill beats a refrac at tight cluster spacing.

Automatic Report Generation in ResFracPro

This month’s release has a feature that I am particularly excited about – automatic report generation. The reports are generated automatically when a simulation finishes. Also, reports can be generated on-demand for simulations that have already been completed. The reports are highly customizable, allowing the user to generate different line plots, 3D visualizations, preview plots, and tabular data. The user can provide a template PPT, so that the report is made with their preferred PPT style.

Introducing ResFrac’s New Multisector Capability

This month’s ResFrac release has a ton of new capabilities. The most important is called ‘multisector’ – the ability to split different sections of the well across different computers. This capability provides a computationally efficient and practical way to run larger models and handle complex scenarios. Hats off to Danial Zeinabady and Michael Nole, who have been the main developers on this project. Beyond them, it’s been a big team effort, pulling in folks from cloud, simulator, and user-success. First, let’s review – what is sector modeling? Why do we need a ‘multi’ version of it?

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