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Before joining ResFrac, he served as the Petrophysics Manager at QEP Resources and Forest Oil. Dave has extensive experience in a variety of basins throughout the U.S. including the Permian, Bakken, Haynesville, Uintah, Eagle Ford, and Cotton Valley, where he successfully used ResFrac as a tool for optimizing landing zones in multiple horizons as well as testing the variability of different frac and perforating designs. Prior to QEP and Forest Oil, Dave worked for Schlumberger for 15 years in a variety of capacities including operations manager, logging engineer, and marketing, where he gained comprehensive experience with perforating, open, and cased hole logging.
Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. When not working for ResFrac, Dave spends his free time exploring the 4WD trails of Colorado, bike riding and training (mountain, road, gravel), gardening, and making homemade ‘fruit’ wine (from strawberries and gooseberries he grows himself).
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.
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.
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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Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
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