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Eric Shulz

Eric Schulz

Senior Software Engineer

Eric Shulz is an experienced reservoir and software engineer, with experience performing reservoir modeling, financial modeling, and reserves evaluation.

Prior to joining ResFrac, Eric was a reservoir engineer at EOG Resources, primarily working in Mid-Continent unconventional assets. Eric also has experience in startups focused on software engineering and conventional oil and gas exploration.

Eric earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. While earning his Master’s degree, Eric authored a thesis covering his research on the performance of mixtures of proppants that are commonly used in hydraulic fracturing.  Eric is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and an Eagle Scout.

In his free time, Eric enjoys hiking, skiing, golf, and playing piano.

Eric'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.

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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.

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