Tristen Lawrence

Operations Manager

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As Operations Manager at ResFrac, Tristen keeps the back office running smoothly, ensuring efficient processes, seamless customer experiences, and well-executed outreach efforts.

Prior to joining ResFrac, Tristen worked in brand management and business operations for a small marketing firm in Central CA, where she refined her skills in branding, marketing, and business management. This experience sparked a deep appreciation for user research and the importance of intuitive, user-centered design to drive business success and measurable impact for clients. In addition to her operational expertise, Tristen is a UX/UI designer and WordPress site builder, always on the lookout for ways to enhance digital experiences.

Outside of work for ResFrac, Tristen is mom to four rowdy kids and spends her evenings and weekends balancing family chaos and many hobbies. She makes it a practice to try to catch the sunrise over the Atlantic at least twice a week, volunteers with the local aquarium’s stranding response team to rescue and rehabilitate sea turtles, and enjoys sailing, live music, and great food. Tristen’s fuel is coffee and memes, and brings energy, humor and a bit of nonsense to everything she takes on.

Tristen's posts

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

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.

Advanced ‘proppant transport in the well’ capabilities are now implemented in ResFrac!

Proppant transport in the well is an intriguing topic that has attracted a lot of interest in recent years [1-8]. Proppant transport processes determine the uniformity of proppant placement, which has a direct impact on productivity. Cipolla et al. estimate that the difference between poor and excellent proppant uniformity is about $2.5M in net present value per well.

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.