Solutions

Solutions for Unconventional Reservoir Development

FracMAX provides software-driven and service-backed solutions for subsurface modeling, drilling interpretation, hydraulic fracturing design and completion optimization.

Our Products

Software-driven, service-backed

Three proprietary tools spanning seismic characterization, drilling interpretation and geomechanical fracturing design.

Fracturing Optimization

FracMAX

Integrate geology and geomechanics to maximize the return of your unconventional reservoirs. FracMAX couples geologic modeling, true-3D geomechanical modeling and fracturing design into one workflow.

Business value: optimize the key decisions across drilling, completion and operations — well location, direction and spacing, number of stages, stage spacing, perforation position and pumping parameters — to maximize stimulated rock volume and return.

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FracMAX geomechanical modeling and fracturing design

Key capabilities

  • Geologic modeling from seismic & well logs (deterministic, geostatistical, AI)
  • True-3D geomechanical modeling with Material Point Method
  • Natural–hydraulic fracture interaction & microseismic simulation
  • True-3D asymmetric fracturing design with pumping-curve output

Technical advantages

  • Unique Material Point Method (MPM) geomechanical engine
  • True-3D and asymmetric — not 2D simplifications
  • Heterogeneous geomodel & differential stress fields
  • Stimulated Rock Volume (SRV) optimization

Typical applications

  • Optimal number of fracturing stages
  • Optimal wellbore direction & well spacing
  • Optimal stage spacing & perforation position
  • Pumping parameter optimization
Rock Properties from Drilling Data

DrillPredictor

Turning drilling data into rock mechanical properties near the wellbore — real-time or post-drilling. No extra tools, no well logging, no extra cost.

Business value: continuous, along-wellbore geomechanical logs derived from existing drilling data — enabling better, balanced completion and perforation designs without added acquisition cost.

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DrillPredictor geomechanical logs derived from drilling data

Key capabilities

  • Inputs: WOB, ROP, RPM, differential pressure, mud flowrate, ECD
  • Outputs: Young’s & shear modulus, Poisson’s ratio, porosity, brittleness
  • Fracture index, in-situ stress and pore pressure estimation
  • Continuous geomechanical logs along the wellbore

Technical advantages

  • Corrected MSE (CMSE) methodology accounting for wellbore friction
  • Real-time or post-drilling operation
  • Continuous coverage — no logging-point gaps
  • Fracability balancing across completion stages

Typical applications

  • Perforation cluster positioning
  • Completion design & optimization
  • Stimulation design support
  • Unconventional well development
Seismic Inversion

ThinBED

High-resolution broadband seismic spectral inversion software that resolves thin beds below seismic tuning thickness, with geological constraints embedded in the inversion.

Business value: a sharper subsurface picture and stronger well marker–seismic horizon correlation, supporting confident thin-bed reservoir characterization and evaluation.

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ThinBED high-resolution seismic spectral inversion result

Key capabilities

  • Spectral decomposition in the time–frequency domain
  • Wavelet estimation from well or seismic data
  • Constraint setup: sparsity (L1), smoothness, geological priors
  • Least-squares inversion and final reflectivity (IFFT)

Technical advantages

  • Resolves beds thinner than the classic 1/4-wavelength limit
  • Odd/even reflection-coefficient decomposition for added resolution
  • Geology-constrained inversion, not math-only optimization
  • Improved well marker–seismic horizon correlation

Typical applications

  • Thin-bed reservoir characterization
  • Gas shale layer-by-layer evaluation
  • Standalone application or PaleoScan plug-in
  • Reservoir-scale seismic interpretation
Integrated Workflow

One closed loop, three tools

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ThinBED

Subsurface characterization

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DrillPredictor

Along-wellbore geomechanics

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FracMAX

Geomechanical modeling & fracturing

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Services

Completion & field evaluation

Discuss Your Reservoir Development Challenges

Talk with our technical team about subsurface modeling, fracturing design and completion optimization — or arrange to meet us at the exhibition.

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