Tristen Lawrence

Administrative and Marketing Coordinator

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Tristen wears many hats for ResFrac, ensuring smooth, on-time, customer-focused projects and outreach efforts at ResFrac.

Prior to joining ResFrac, Tristen worked in brand management and business operations for a small marketing firm in Central CA where she developed a love of branding and marketing and began to grasp the importance of user research in all marketing and outreach efforts. Tristen is a digital product designer and WordPress site builder with a passion for creating intuitive, user-centered products. She can pretty much always be found with a laptop or tablet open to an Adobe, FIGMA, or WordPress program, tinkering around with one design or another.

In addition to her work with ResFrac, Tristen is mom to four rowdy kids and spends evenings and weekends managing family chaos, boating, enjoying live music, amazing food, and participating in athletic events (as a spectator when possible). Tristen’s love language is coffee and memes, and those who know her best make sure she’s got a steady supply of both.

Tristen's posts

What ‘company culture’ means to us

We recently held our annual company retreat. This is an important event because we are a fully remote company, and it gives us the chance to get together in-person and spend quality time. This year, we did the retreat in Houston, following URTeC and our annual symposium. We visited Space Center Houston, went to an Astros game, and ate BBQ and Tex-Mex. As a Houston native, I picked some of my favorite things to do in town! We also held a meeting on ‘company culture.’ I asked the group – how do you perceive our company culture? What do we do well, and what could we do better? Here are the highlights.

Horizontal hydraulic fractures in shales: are they real?

In ResFrac, we are always challenging ourselves—what should we be doing better? What new capabilities should we add to the simulator? One of our newest projects is adding horizontal fracture propagation. Under most conditions, hydraulic fractures form vertically, not laterally. However, in specific circumstances, horizontal fractures develop. Sometimes, they form in addition to vertical fractures, and sometimes, they form exclusively without any vertical fractures. Horizontal fracture propagation has not conventionally been included in commercial hydraulic fracturing simulators, but we think this is a capability well-worth developing.

Previewing the Seven(!) ResFrac Papers to be Presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference

Next week, ResFrac will be coauthoring seven papers at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC). These papers include: operator case studies in the Haynesville, Marcellus, and Bakken, a study quantifying the effect of proppant uniformity on production and economics, a new procedure generalizing the Devon Quantification of Interference (DQI) method, and an excellent paper by a University of Texas PhD student on proppant flowback.