StimPlan™

Advanced Hydraulic Fracture Design & Optimization

An integrated hydraulic fracturing engineering platform for designing, simulating, analyzing and optimizing stimulation treatments across complex reservoir environments.

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$StimPlan plot with a layered stress profile against true vertical depth on the left and a colour-contoured hydraulic fracture profile against fracture penetration on the right$

Fracture profile plotted against fracture penetration, alongside the layered stress profile used in the design.Image courtesy of NSI Technologies

Overview

StimPlan™ is an integrated software solution for hydraulic fracture design, analysis and optimization. Fracture geometry options range from quick-look pseudo-3D methods to fully 3D gridded finite element simulation for complex, multi-layered formations.

Data handling, treatment scheduling, post-frac production analysis and economics are combined in one environment, so engineers can evaluate treatment alternatives consistently.

Key capabilities

3D hydraulic fracture modeling: simulate fracture propagation and geometry in complex geological formations.
Treatment design & optimization: evaluate pumping schedules, fluid selection and proppant placement.
Data analysis & calibration: incorporate well logs, pressure data, minifrac analysis and treatment diagnostics.
Reservoir & production analysis: evaluate post-fracture well performance using integrated simulation and analytical methods.
Unconventional reservoir modeling: support multi-stage hydraulic fractures, natural fracture networks and stress interaction.
Economic evaluation: assess treatment alternatives by integrating fracture modeling, production estimates and economics.

$Six StimPlan fracture profile panels, each with a stress log and colour-contoured fracture width against fracture penetration, sharing one width legend$

Simulated fracture width contours for several fractures, each shown with its stress profile.Image courtesy of NSI Technologies

Applications

Hydraulic fracturing design for vertical and horizontal wells.

Multi-stage fracture optimization in unconventional reservoirs.

Treatment evaluation and post-frac analysis.

Fracture geometry and proppant placement assessment.

Production forecasting and stimulation economics.

Chart of stress shadowing influence factor against dimensionless distance d/H, comparing StimPlan results with a 1D stress intensity curve and measured data — Stress shadowing: stress change versus distance from a fracture, StimPlan compared with a 1D stress intensity solution and measured data.Image courtesy of NSI Technologies

Developer

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NSI Technologies develops StimPlan™, software for hydraulic fracture design, analysis and optimization.

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