Kevin Eslick

Software Engineer

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At ResFrac, Kevin Eslick is responsible for development work on ResApps,including implementing new capabilities, improving performance, and ensuring the reliability of the application and web service.

Kevin came to ResFrac as a software developer with four years of experience, including two years in e-commerce at Fanatics and two years in other roles. After completing Vanderbilt’s coding boot camp, he’s taken on projects that blend his love for technology with a commitment to high-quality, impactful work.

Outside of tech, Kevin enjoys coaching high school football as a hobby, sharing his passion for the game, and building team spirit. When he’s not coding or coaching, he’s often gaming, exploring new tech, and finding fulfillment through hard work and new challenges.

Kevin's posts

Interesting Papers from the 2026 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference (HFTC)

The 2026 HFTC included 50+ technical paper presentations, a special session highlighting papers from the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), and a dynamic opening session featuring the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and a diverse panel discussion with representatives from Chevron, Exxon, US Department of Energy, and Colorado School of Mines.

Production impact of horizontal fractures

At the 2025 SPE International Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, we (Dontsov, Zoback, McClure, and Fowler) presented “Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Along Bedding Planes Might Be More Prevalent Than We Think” (SPE-226637). The paper reviewed case studies with evidence of horizontal or bedding plane fractures from microseismic, fiber optics, core observations, and casing deformation.

Testing the new Kryvenko model for proppant washout

What controls proppant placement during hydraulic fracturing? As described in Chapter 8 from McClure et al. (2025), ResFrac incorporates a variety of physical processes – viscous drag, gravitational settling, hindered settling, clustered settling, bed slumping, and more. In addition, ResFrac accounts for the complex physics associated with proppant flowing out of the wellbore (Dontsov, 2023; Ponners et al., 2025).