John McGrath

Director of ResApps Operations

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John McGrath is Director of ResApps Operations responsible for the development and client support of the ResApps product line within ResFrac.

In previous lives, John has worked for several oilfield companies, including Schlumberger, Baker Atlas, and Corelab, being mostly focused on new product development and implementation. This has resulted in spells in various locations around the world where the highlights were Thailand, The Netherlands, Wales, and now he calls Houston, Texas home. Not too bad for a kid from a small village in Scotland who joined the oilfield in Aberdeen after getting an Honours degree in Civil Engineering several lifetimes ago.

John’s passion is working at the intersection between developing / commercializing new products and working with clients to deliver innovative solutions that solve real problems. No two days are ever the same.

In his spare time John can be found either in his woodshop building furniture that his wife has no space for or under the hood of his 1962 Chevy C10 truck cajoling it into starting again.

John's posts

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.

What ‘company culture’ means to us

We recently held our annual company retreat. This is an important event because we are a fully remote company, and it gives us the chance to get together in-person and spend quality time. This year, we did the retreat in Houston, following URTeC and our annual symposium. We visited Space Center Houston, went to an Astros game, and ate BBQ and Tex-Mex. As a Houston native, I picked some of my favorite things to do in town! We also held a meeting on ‘company culture.’ I asked the group – how do you perceive our company culture? What do we do well, and what could we do better? Here are the highlights.