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