FITSIMM is a new software and consulting company, which was built out of the following observations:

1. Long known in-situ complexity of hydraulic induced fractures needs to be accounted for if one expects to achieve optimization fracturing designs during field development, continuously in need of economic efficiency (See HFTS projects)
2. Current fracturing models are inadequate in predicting potential complex geometries, very important when assessing shadowing, re-fracture, parent-child interference, well and stage spacing, as well as overall design parameters, important for conformance studies, thus improving recovery factors.
3. Classical geomechanical approaches are computationally inefficient, unable to handle the number of natural fracture found at the field scale (sometimes high densities), and complicated to use in classical coupling to reservoir models
4. Reservoir models also call for complex physics, more or less integrated in dual-porosity representations, inadequate for unconventional reservoirs, pushing approximations which are hard to calibrate.
5. DFN models, more accurate for the description of fractures in unconventional reservoirs, are rarely integrated to reservoir models, not offering both complex geometry description and geomechanical deformation under stress at the scale of an SRV created by the stimulation.
6. The next reservoir simulator generation, under the double pressure to integrate more and more of the physical effects at play and the use an ever increasing number of cells – especially for discrete fracture models – needs to offer non-invasive, non- disturbing  solutions, which adapt to already existing modeling platforms.

We think that the simulation “space” of different companies, whether “simple or complicated”, should be augmented by “external” modules capacities, thus offering additional options to industry standards.

To our knowledge, our augmented capacities are new and therefore can’t be easily benchmarked. Thus during the development process « Proof of Pertinence & Proof Of Concept working your datasets are provided.