Unconventional

Itasca’s unconventional oil and gas services focus on hydraulic fracturing simulation, including:

  • Optimize Stimulation Design
    • height growth
    • injection rate and volume
    • fluid type, additives, and diverters
    • proppant placement
  • Validate Completion Design
    • completion types and designs
    • stage isolation
    • stage sequencing
    • refracturing
  • Refine Well Plan
    • well orientation
    • landing point
    • well integrity
  • Improve Reservoir Management
    • well spacing
    • well placement
    • induced seismicity and fault activation
    • reservoir characterization
    • production optimization
  • Induced Microseismicity
    • survey design to find the most effective array to serve the client’s microseismic monitoring needs
    • quality control of processed microseismic data to establish confidence in results
    • reprocessing for improved interpretation, including a microseismic discrete fracture network (DFN)
    • fully coupled, 3D geomechanical modeling to get an understanding of how the reservoir is responding to fluid and proppant injection
Latest News
  • Itasca has announced the release of FLAC3D v9 Itasca has announced the release of FLAC3D v9, an advanced continuum modeling tool for solving...
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  • ARMA 2022 Student Design Competition Congratulations to the winners of the American Rock Mechanics Association's (ARMA) 2022 Student Design Competition....
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Upcoming Events
13 Jun
URTeC 2023
The Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) is a premier event focused on the latest science and technology applied to e... Read More
25 Jun
APCOM 2023
APCOM brings together both industry practitioners and academics to share ideas, innovations, and challenges.... Read More
25 Jun
ARMA 2023
The American Rock Mechanics Association invites you to its 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, on 25... Read More