Eric Schulz

Senior Software Engineer

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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

$Figure 2. The ResFrac model of the original completion: tall fractures that grow up into overlying benches while proppant stays mostly in the target interval.$

Targeting the reserves between clusters: modeling strategic refracs and infills in ResFrac

Older, wide-spacing Delaware Basin wells can leave high-pressure rock stranded between fractures. Devon used ResFrac to design liner refracs whose peak rates came in within 1% of forecast, and to show why an offset infill beats a refrac at tight cluster spacing.

Automatic Report Generation in ResFracPro

This month’s release has a feature that I am particularly excited about – automatic report generation. The reports are generated automatically when a simulation finishes. Also, reports can be generated on-demand for simulations that have already been completed. The reports are highly customizable, allowing the user to generate different line plots, 3D visualizations, preview plots, and tabular data. The user can provide a template PPT, so that the report is made with their preferred PPT style.

Introducing ResFrac’s New Multisector Capability

This month’s ResFrac release has a ton of new capabilities. The most important is called ‘multisector’ – the ability to split different sections of the well across different computers. This capability provides a computationally efficient and practical way to run larger models and handle complex scenarios. Hats off to Danial Zeinabady and Michael Nole, who have been the main developers on this project. Beyond them, it’s been a big team effort, pulling in folks from cloud, simulator, and user-success. First, let’s review – what is sector modeling? Why do we need a ‘multi’ version of it?