Garrett Fowler

Chief Operating Officer

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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.

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ResApps FracTest interface showing a Stress interpretation section with an Auto-interpret button and contact options, next to a Stress Diagnostic Chart.

FracTest – An Online Tool for DFIT Interpretation

This week, we are releasing FracTest, a web-based application for interpretation of diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFITs). FracTest is available at resapps.resfrac.com, alongside our other two ResApps, StageOpt and IntTest. DFITs are small-volume fracture injection tests used to estimate stress, pore pressure, and permeability. These quantities form the foundation of the fracture and reservoir engineering work that we do in ResFrac, and so we view DFIT interpretation as one of the most important parts of our workflow.

Congratulations to Fervo on their IPO!

This week, I attended ResFrac customer Fervo Energy’s IPO on the Nasdaq. The positive energy was incredible. Roughly 100 people were there: Fervo employees, family, and members of the wider Fervo-supportive community. I was invited because ResFrac provides our software and services to Fervo, and also because I have been an advisor to the company since before its founding. As Jack reminded me this week, I introduced him and Tim! They founded Fervo around the same that ResFrac was being first released commercially, and they played an important role for our company because they were one of our earliest customers, and in turn, we were one of their first partners and vendors. Ever since then, ResFrac has been a core part of Fervo’s workflow in doing stimulation design and reservoir engineering.

ResFrac, a Leader in Advancing the Future of Subsurface Simulation, Receives Platform Investment from Banneker Partners

Banneker Partners (“Banneker”) today announced a platform investment in ResFrac Corporation (“ResFrac”), the developer of the industry’s only fully integrated reservoir simulation and hydraulic fracturing platform. ResFrac uniquely couples reservoir simulation and hydraulic fracture modeling, enabling engineers to model a well’s entire life cycle, from the moment rock is fractured through years of production, in a single, continuous simulation. This precision allows energy operators to test thousands of design scenarios in a virtual environment, optimizing completion design and maximizing resource recovery while minimizing capital risk.

Garrett Fowler

Chief Operating Officer

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

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