Benson Lamidi

Reservoir and Completions Engineer

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Benson Lamidi is a reservoir and completions engineer at ResFrac focusing on reservoir data analysis, improving workflows, and customer support.

Before joining ResFrac, Benson was a Mitacs Intern at Ovintiv Inc., where he honed his skills in developing in-house inter-well communication tools to optimize production performance in the Montney Formation. Benson holds a PhD in Geoscience from the University of Calgary and a Master of Science in Reservoir Evaluation and Management from Herriot-Watt University. He also holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering and a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Saint-Petersburg State Mining University.

Benson’s research has focused on critical areas such as flowback data analysis, quantifying inter-well communications in unconventional wells, modeling complex fracture geometries, multiphase flow in gas condensate reservoirs, rate transient analysis, three-phase relative permeability, and data-driven production optimization in naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs. His work also included software development to support these advanced modeling techniques. He has collaborated with prominent industry players like Ovintiv Inc., TotalEnergies, CNRL, Gazprom, and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.

In his free time, Benson likes playing Chess and Draught and took part in the World Draught Championship in 2015 and 2016 in Russia

Benson'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.