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Somasekhara Reddy Medam

Somasekhar Reddy

Chief Information Officer

Somasekhar Reddy is an IT and management professional with more than 17 years of IT experience including over 12 years managing global IT projects.

He has extensive experience in data management and analytics and applied data science and more than eight years of technical project management experience. Before joining ResFrac, Soma worked for 14 years at Microsoft in Hyderabad, India, and Redmond, Washington.

He holds a Master of Arts in management from Harvard University and various certifications including PMP and the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science. Soma and his wife founded and serve as trustees for the Thulisha Reddy Foundation, which operates a school in Hyderabad that emphasizes student empowerment.

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Horizontal fracture initiated along weak bedding plane or frictional interface in ResFrac

Horizontal hydraulic fractures in ResFrac

Horizontal hydraulic fracture propagation is believed to be widespread in shale plays where the frac gradient approaches the overburden – such as the Vaca Muerta, Utica, and Montney. However, horizontal propagation is nearly always ignored in hydraulic fracture modeling. In ResFrac, we are obsessed with ‘getting the physics right’, and so naturally, we extended our simulator to handle horizontal fracturing. The first version of this new capability was released earlier this year. We are eager to start collecting feedback from users, which will help us to fine tune the algorithm and workflow.

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Digesting the Bonkers, Incredible, Off-the-Charts, Spectacular Results from the Fervo and FORGE Enhanced Geothermal Projects

I’m out of superlatives – I used them all up in the title. But seriously – Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) projects have had a really, really good summer. In this article, I summarize the results that have been recently presented by Fervo and FORGE. At their annual Tech Day and in a white paper posted this week (Norbeck et al., 2024), Fervo Energy provided their first update on Project Cape, a Utah project where they are developing 400 MWe of new production over the next two years. So far, fourteen wells have been drilled, and three of them have been stimulated.

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