Akshay Ubale

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Akshay Ubale is a DevOps Engineer with a strong cloud infrastructure, automation, and disaster recovery background. He has spent much of his career designing and maintaining high-availability and scalable application environments, focusing on security and performance. He brings a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, problem-solving, and analytical thinking, especially in high-pressure environments.

Before joining ResFrac, Akshay gained extensive experience in India’s dynamic startup ecosystem, where he explored diverse technologies and tools to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

Akshay earned his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from PES University in Bangalore.

Outside of work, Akshay is interested in space exploration and stays informed on current events, particularly geopolitics. He enjoys discovering new people and places as an outgoing person, avid traveler, and trekker. He has covered thousands of kilometers on his motorbike, often exploring hilly terrains. He also has a deep appreciation for music and enjoys listening to a wide variety of genres in his downtime.

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$Horizontal fracture initiated along weak bedding plane or frictional interface in ResFrac$

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.

Akshay Ubale

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