About

Carlo Peruzzo

Senior Software Engineer

Prior to joining ResFrac, Carlo worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the EPFL Geo Energy Laboratory, where he earned his Ph.D. with a thesis titled ‘Three-dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Media.’

He also played a role in developing and optimizing the EPFL Geo Energy Laboratory solver for simulating the propagation of 3D-planar hydraulic fractures. Before joining EPFL, Carlo conducted research on hydraulic fracture propagation in porous media at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences CISM-Lab.

Carlo holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering, both obtained from the University of Padua. In 2023, he was awarded the Best Paper Award at the American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium.

In his free time, Carlo enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, reading, and traveling.

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Carlo's posts

What ‘company culture’ means to us

We recently held our annual company retreat. This is an important event because we are a fully remote company, and it gives us the chance to get together in-person and spend quality time. This year, we did the retreat in Houston, following URTeC and our annual symposium. We visited Space Center Houston, went to an Astros game, and ate BBQ and Tex-Mex. As a Houston native, I picked some of my favorite things to do in town! We also held a meeting on ‘company culture.’ I asked the group – how do you perceive our company culture? What do we do well, and what could we do better? Here are the highlights.

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Horizontal hydraulic fractures in shales: are they real?

In ResFrac, we are always challenging ourselves—what should we be doing better? What new capabilities should we add to the simulator? One of our newest projects is adding horizontal fracture propagation. Under most conditions, hydraulic fractures form vertically, not laterally. However, in specific circumstances, horizontal fractures develop. Sometimes, they form in addition to vertical fractures, and sometimes, they form exclusively without any vertical fractures. Horizontal fracture propagation has not conventionally been included in commercial hydraulic fracturing simulators, but we think this is a capability well-worth developing.

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Previewing the Seven(!) ResFrac Papers to be Presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference

Next week, ResFrac will be coauthoring seven papers at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC). These papers include: operator case studies in the Haynesville, Marcellus, and Bakken, a study quantifying the effect of proppant uniformity on production and economics, a new procedure generalizing the Devon Quantification of Interference (DQI) method, and an excellent paper by a University of Texas PhD student on proppant flowback.

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