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2026 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition
3–5 February 2026
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center | The Woodlands, Texas, USA

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2026 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition

2026 Technical Program

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SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition

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Special Session: Highlights from American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)

Thursday, 5 February
Waterway Ballroom 5-8
Technical and Invited Presenter
The American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) is a professional engineering society that promotes rock mechanics and geomechanics research and applications. This special session highlights this year’s best ARMA papers related to HFTC attendees. These papers were presented at the ARMA 2025 Santa Fe symposium and are available online. They focus predominantly on modeling aspects related to hydraulic fracturing and laboratory experiments, while some address field scale phenomena.
Session Chairpersons
Egor Dontsov - ResFrac Corporation
Andrew Bunger - University of Pittsburgh
  • 1300-1325
    Impact of Mechanical Stratigraphy on Hydraulic Fracture Containment In the Delaware Basin, USA: Comparing Fracture Toughness versus Anisotropic Poroelastic and Viscous Relaxation Stress Barriers
    B.R. Crawford, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.
  • 1325-1350
    Hydraulic stimulations for geothermal: tensile hydraulic fractures or/and fluid-induced dilatant shear ruptures
    B. Lecampion, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • 1350-1415
    How to Engineer Transverse Hydraulic Fractures from Horizontal Wells in Reverse-Faulting Stressed Environments
    A. Michael, University of North Dakota
  • 1415-1440
    Large block hydraulic fracturing experiments: learnings and its extrapolation to field operations
    R. Prioul, SLB
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