ResFrac Corporation

Huge congrats to Danial, Behnam, and Prof. Clarkson on this outstanding work!

As many of you know, we had a major ResFracPro update that went out on November 4th for both the simulator and user interface.?Highlights include: (a) the advanced ‘proppant transport from the well’ capabilities developed by Egor Dontsov for StageOpt have now been implemented in the ResFracPro simulator, (b) ‘libraries’ that allow you to save/load components of simulations (such as defined proppants, fluid models, etc.); this includes a pre-saved?database of proppant and fluid types, (c) the ability to import fluid models from the Eclipse format and the Whitson format, (d) new wizards for: well shift, mesh refinement, and proppant immobilization, (e) the ability to prespecify line plot data for history matching, (f) gunbarrel plots showing proppant placement, fracturing, and fluid leakoff, (g) the ability to set the default VM size for running simulations on the server, and (h) many minor new options, bug fixes, and improvements. For ResFrac's November?Office Hours, scheduled for TOMORROW, November 12th,?at 9:00 a.m. Central, we will have a presentation with Mark McClure, who will go through some of the new features in ResFracPro.?We'd love to have you join us! You can?use the link in the comments to register.

We have opened registration for our final ResFrac Fundamentals training course of 2024, which will take place on December 2-5, 2024. To learn more about the training or to secure your spot, please click the link below! ?www.resfrac.com/training

Please join us for a very special ARMA hydraulic fracturing event next Thursday, October 3rd. This will be our first online debate and the topic is hydraulic fracturing complexity. Feel free to think of hard questions, but be prepared to provide evidence to support your point of view. Not a member of hydraulic fracturing community? Register here for free to receive community updates and connection instructions: https://hfc.armarocks.org/.

For ResFrac's October Office Hours (scheduled for this coming Tuesday, October?1st?at 9:00 a.m. Central), we will have a presentation from Egor Dontsov, ResFrac Chief Scientist, on his recent blog post, "Advanced 'proppant transport in the well' capabilities are now implemented in ResFrac."?You can click the link in the comments to register to join us! https://lnkd.in/gP_pRpky

Registration is open at 2024 International Geomechanics Conference (#IGS2024). https://lnkd.in/gg6_3F6s. You are invited! From Educator Forum, Training with Fellows, technical sessions, President Panel, Student Presentation Contest, welcome dinner, culture activities, to 5k fun run/walk, let's celebrate #geomechanics in the era of #NetZero and #Sustainability. Particularly check out the 197 world-class presentations on CO2 Sequestration (#CCS), #EnergyStorage, #Petroleum, #Mining, #Geothermal, #Geotechnics, #Environmental, and the very FIRST session on #DeepSpaceExploration. https://lnkd.in/g9bjJWJp Hats off to the host PETRONAS, the sponsors PETRONAS, aramco, SLB, Rockfield, PTTEP, Oxy, ResFrac Corporation, Equinor, MetaRock Laboratories, Inc., the organizing societies American Rock Mechanics Association, Dhahran Geoscience Society, SEG, Society of Petroleum Engineers International, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers), China Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME), Singapore Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology (SRMEG), and Malaysia Oil, Gas &Energy Services Council (MOGSC), and all the relentlessly hardworking Organizing Committee members. What a blessing!

For Office Hours (tomorrow, September 17th, at 9:00 a.m. Central), we will have a presentation from ResFrac Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer Agustin Garbino. Agustin will present on "Modeling Proppant Flowback to Quantify its Impact on Shale Gas Production – A Vaca Muerta Case Study", a presentation he shared at our annual customer symposium and which we want to share with all of you! Abstract below, and link to sign up in comments. Abstract: Aggressive drawdown on unconventional wells commonly leads to the return of proppant pumped during the stimulation treatment, reducing propped fracture aperture, with potential impact on hydrocarbon production. Despite being identified by the available literature as a source of concern to operators, how much proppant flowback affects unconventional well production is a question that remains unanswered. This study quantifies the impact of proppant flowback on gas production under different drawdown scenarios through numerical simulations history-matched with proppant production measurements in the field. The numerical simulations were performed with a fully coupled reservoir, fracturing and geomechanics commercial simulator (ResFrac) using its module to simulate proppant flowback. The physical model employed to quantify proppant production was tested, validated, and improved with this study. Two different operators shared proppant flowback and production data from two gas wells in the Vaca Muerta Formation (Argentina) to carry out this analysis. Such field data was utilized to history-match proppant flowback data from unconventional wells for the first time. The calibrated models were used to understand the effect of drawdown management on proppant flowback and its impact on early-time gas production and its estimated ultimate recovery. A series of sensitivity analyses on critical variables in the model were also conducted to further study the potential influence of proppant flowback on gas production under different conditions. Results show that proppant flowback may not always be detrimental to gas production, and that its influence varies depending on each case.

ResFrac blog post on the latest EGS results! https://lnkd.in/gHCkfzie