Garrett Fowler is Chief Operating Officer at ResFrac, responsible for overseeing client engagement, professional services, and software licensing.

ResFrac is a software company whose primary product is a fully-coupled hydraulic fracture, reservoir, and geomechanics simulator. Garrett has led modeling studies in every major shale basin, as well as geothermal and conventional projects. Prior to ResFrac, Garrett was a reservoir engineer at OXY and Tachyus, working on CO2 EOR, waterfloods, steamfloods, and cyclic steam injection.

Garrett attended Stanford University, where he graduated with distinction, receiving a Master of Science degree in petroleum engineering and a Bachelor of Science in energy resources engineering. Garrett was awarded a 2022 SPE Regional Completions Optimization and Technology Award, a 2023-2024 SPE Distinguished Lecturer, and authored or co-authored 21 technical papers. He is an Eagle Scout, multiple-time Ironman finisher, and a search and rescue diver.

Garrett’s professional publications include:

• Shahri, M. , Tucker, A. , Rice, C. , Lathrop, Z. , Ratcliff, D. , McClure, M. , and Garrett Fowler. 2021. High Fidelity Fibre-Optic Observations and Resultant Fracture Modeling in Support of Planarity.
• Pearson, M., Fowler, G., Stribling, K.M., McChesney, J., McClure, M., McGuigan, T. , Anschutz, D., and Pat Wildt. 2020. Near-Wellbore Deposition of High Conductivity Proppant to Improve Effective Fracture Conductivity and Productivity of Horizontal Well Stimulations.
• Fowler, G., McClure, M., and Craig Cipolla. 2020. Making Sense Out of a Complicated Parent/Child Well Dataset: A Bakken Case Study.
• Fowler, G., McClure, M., and Jeff Allen. 2020. RTA Assisted History Matching with a Combined Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Simulator. 
• McClure, M., Picone, M., Fowler, G., Ratcliff, D., Kang, C., Medam, S., and Joe Frantz. 2020. Nuances and Frequently Asked Questions in Field-Scale Hydraulic Fracture Modeling.
• Fowler, G., McClure, M., and Craig Cipolla. 2019. A Utica Case Study: The Impact of Permeability Estimates on History Matching, Fracture Length, and Well Spacing.
• Sarma, P., Fowler, G., Henning, M., Kyriacou, S., Thakur, G., Sloss, D., and Wyatt Shipley. 2017. Cyclic Steam Injection Modeling and Optimization for Candidate Selection, Steam Volume Optimization, and SOR Minimization, Powered by Unique, Fast, Modeling and Data Assimilation Algorithms.
• Sandler, J., Fowler, G., Cheng, K., and Anthony Kovscek. 2012. Solar-Generated Steam for Oil Recovery: Reservoir Simulation, Economic Analysis, and Life Cycle Assessment.