Jess is a Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer with ResFrac where she helps clients optimize their developments using ResFrac’s suite of modeling tools.

Jess has been a leader in the diagnostic and modeling space throughout her career and is proud to leverage that experience as part of the ResFrac team. Her experience at small and mid-size operators bring a unique perspective to the team.

Prior to joining ResFrac, Jess was a Completions Engineering Advisor for the Ovintiv Chief Completions Team. Her focus was on optimizing job size and perf design through modeling and integrated diagnostics in the Permian Basin. Before Ovintiv, she was a Senior Reservoir Engineer focusing on field studies and data analytics in the DJ Basin at Great Western Petroleum. Jess led the integrated diagnostic studies, including deploying the first dissolvable fiber in a horizonal well in North America, with results that yielded a 20% production improvement. Previously, she worked for WPX Energy as a Senior Completions Engineer in the Williston Basin, where, in addition to operational design and execution, Jess was one of the lead engineers for a completion and spacing optimization program. As a Completion and Production Engineer at Schlumberger, she worked a variety of technical projects, including the design, execution and evaluation of hydraulic fracturing treatments, rate transient analysis, production history matching and microseismic monitoring and evaluation across the Rockies basins.

She received her M.S. in Petroleum Engineering, with her thesis work focused on using a reservoir simulator to model compressed air energy storage, and B.S in Environmental Engineering, both from the Colorado School of Mines. She also was a member of the women’s basketball team while receiving her bachelor’s degree.

Residing in CO, in her free time, Jess enjoys going on adventures with her husband, kids, and Goldendoodle. These normally entail snowboarding for Jess (skiing for the rest of the family…minus the dog), camping, hiking, fly fishing, mountain biking and seeking out the best food in our destinations.

Publications

• Barhaug, J., Hughes, D., Ramos, C., Klein, C., Lawrence, M., Mazza, J., Havens, J., 2024. Tying Stage Architecture to Wolfcamp Performance. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. The Woodlands, Texas, USA, SPE-217773-MS
• Hughes, D., Barhaug, J., Lilly, T., 2024. PERFectly Stressed Out: Surface and Downhole Imaging Relations. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. The Woodlands, Texas, USA, SPE-217769-MS
• Barhaug, J. Bussey, J. Schaffer, B. Shemeta, J., Lawrence, M., Tran, J., Stark, P., 2022. Testing XLE For Cost Savings in the DJ Basin: A Fiber Optic Case Study. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. The Woodlands, Texas, USA, SPE-209155-MS
• Witt, D., Barhaug, J., Propper, M., Jiang, W., Jia, J., Hawkes, R., 2022. Perforation Cluster Efficiency of Cemented Plug and Perf Limited Entry Completions. Insights from Logging Based Diagnostics. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. The Woodlands, Texas, USA, SPE-209130-MS
• Moussa, T., Barhaug, J., Witt, D., Hawkes, R., Dehghanpour, H., 2022. Linking Flowback Recovery to Completion Efficiency: Niobrara-DJ Basin Case Study. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. The Woodlands, Texas, USA, SPE-209136-MS
• Brand, J., Barhaug, J., Reinmiller, R., Parker, R., Cherian, B., 2021. Multi-Disciplinary Fracture and Spacing Study in the DJ Basin. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. Houston, Texas, USA, URTeC: 5297
• Hu, K., Schmidt, A., Barhaug, J., Wong, J., Tian, J., Hall, B., 2015. Sand, Resin-Coated Sand or Ceramic Proppant? The Effect of Different Proppants on the Long-Term Production of Bakken Shale Wells. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Houston, Texas, USA, SPE-174816-MS
• Barhaug, J., King, V. Schmidt, A., Southcott, A., Steinke, L., Harper, H., 2014. Completion Optimization and Validation in the Williston Basin Through Integrated Datasets. SPE Annual Technical Conference. SPE-170721-MS.
• Barhaug, J., Harper, H., Southcott, A. 2014. Creating, Calibrating and Testing a Hydraulic Fracture Model for Optimized Williston Basin Completions. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. URTeC 1918604.
• Cherian, B., Claugus, A.,Dilli, M., Mata, D., Sitchler, J., Alatrach, S., Neumiller, J., Panjaitan, M. 2010. An Integrated Single-Well Approach to Evaluating Completion Effectiveness and Reservoir Properties in the Wind Dancer Field. Tight Gas Completions Conference. SPE-137126-MS.
• Internal – Selected to participate at technical Reservoir Symposium in Bucharest, Romania for integrated microseismic project, Orchard Field, CO
• Neumiller, J., Graves, R., and Fanchi, J. 2009. Feasibility of Using Wind Energy and CAES Systems in a Variety of Geologic Systems. EUROPEC/EAGE Conference and Exhibition. SPE-121934-MS.