Robert Roth

Senior Software Engineer

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Robert Roth is a software engineer with a background in graphical and web design. Learning about the best ways to build software that users find easy and fun to use is his passion, and with 10 years of experience there is still a lot of room to grow.

He has worked with a variety of clients, from the Federal Aviation Administration, Finastra, to Cisco; On different platforms such as web, desktop, and mobile applications. He is skilled in different technologies, frameworks, databases, and deployments which with his focus on agility guides him to deliver maximum value.

Robert is a kid at heart and enjoys watching anime, playing JRPG and tactical RPG video games, as well as occasionally getting injured playing basketball at the Rec.

Robert'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).