Tristen Lawrence

Operations Manager

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As Operations Manager at ResFrac, Tristen helps build and support the operational infrastructure that keeps the company running and growing. Her work spans finance and people operations, compliance, internal systems, website and marketing initiatives, and customer-facing programs and events.

An early member of the ResFrac team, Tristen has helped the company scale from a small startup into an international software and engineering consulting business. Much of her work happens at the intersection of teams: translating business needs into practical workflows, coordinating internal and external partners, and helping systems and processes evolve as the organization grows.

With a background in brand management, marketing communications, and design, Tristen brings a user-centered approach to operations. She believes good operational systems should be thoughtful, intuitive, resilient, and able to evolve alongside the business. Her role moves fluidly between strategic planning and hands-on execution.

Outside of ResFrac, you can find Tristen enjoying coffee at sunrise over the Atlantic, spending evenings and weekends balancing family chaos and a wide range of hobbies, or volunteering with a marine wildlife rescue team in Virginia Beach. Fueled largely by coffee and memes, she brings energy, humor, and a bit of nonsense to most things she takes on.

Tristen's posts

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The influence of well configuration on water loss in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Recently, ‘water loss’ has been a hot topic of discussion for EGS. Fervo reported that they have been producing only 70% of the fluid volumes that they have been injecting at their Project Red. The FORGE project reported a roughly 10% water loss rate. Because projects will have finite water rights, these results have led to concern that growth of EGS will be limited by excessive water consumption. This is a valid concern, and water availability is a legitimate factor in site-selection and project engineering. However, I believe that the problem has been overstated.

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2026 ResFrac Annual Symposium Recap

On June 25, 2026, we got the ResFrac community together both in-person at the ExxonMobil campus in Spring, Texas, and virtually around the globe for our Annual Symposium. With our community growing as fast as it is, the energy in the room was absolutely buzzing. We had a jam-packed day of operator case studies, deep-dive technical sessions, and some incredible geomechanical insights from industry legends.

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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.