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Koenraad Beckers

Geothermal Engineering Lead

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Koenraad is the geothermal engineering lead at ResFrac focusing on performing subsurface analyses, conducting geothermal simulation studies, creating training and support material, and teaching training courses.

Prior to Joining ResFrac, Koenraad was a research engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, where he investigated various geothermal and solar thermal technologies including shallow and deep geothermal for electricity and direct-use applications.

Koenraad holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

In his free time, Koenraad enjoys running, cycling, snowshoeing and hiking.

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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.

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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).

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