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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Danial'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.