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Built for field pace

75% fewer clicks per iteration

Most frac simulators are study tools: you book a week, a specialist, and a compute queue. That work matters — and we do it. But the decision that actually changes a job happens while the crew is still on the pad, and nothing on the market is shaped for that hour. The fast lane is.

The loop, on one screen

Five steps, each on a single key. Enter takes the next action, so a re-solve is a keystroke rather than a tour of the application.

  1. 1Inputs

    Load the case or nudge the handful of parameters that change on site.

    clicks 6 → 2

  2. 2QC

    Clear the ingest QC verdict for this revision before spending solver time.

    clicks 5 → 1

  3. 3Run

    Solve the current revision — one key, no dialogs.

    clicks 3 → 1

  4. 4Review

    Read the deltas against the last accepted run.

    clicks 4 → 1

  5. 5Iterate

    Queue a tweak and re-solve without rebuilding the case.

    clicks 6 → 1

The workflow, step by step

Traced from the shipped loop

This is not a drawing. Every frame below is the real field-pace loop being driven one keystroke at a time — the step states, the gating and the recommended next action are read straight out of the code that runs in the app.

Inputs1

done

QC2

done

Run3

done

Review4

active

Iterate5

pending

iterate returns to inputs — same screen, QC still cleared

Action just taken

3 · Re-solve

Case revision

rev 2

QC standing

Cleared for this revision

Results standing

Solved for this revision

Next: Review results Enter

Revision 2 solved but has not been read.

  1. —
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. 5

    QC clearance carries to the new revision — the parameter changed, the ingested data did not, so there is no second QC round trip.

  8. 3

Count the clicks yourself

A classic multi-page loop costs 24 clicks per iteration; the fast lane costs 6 — 18 of them removed outright, step by step in the table above. This counts interface actions only — not solver time, which depends on your case.

Classic loop

144 clicks

Fast lane

36 clicks

Saved

108 clicks · 75%

A real pad, on the clock

ESTIMATE

4 wells, 50 stages each, 80 bpm at 2000 lb/ft — the same planning arithmetic the free calculator runs, not a slide. Change any of it there and these numbers move with you.

Stages on the pad

200

Pumping per stage

136.3 min

Stage cycle

181.3 min

Stages per day

6.6

Pumping days

30.2

Water on the pad

2,095,238 bbl

Proppant

80.0 MMlb

Perf friction

647 psi

Limited entry

Held at this rate

The window you get: 45.0 minutes between stages

On that pad the pumps run 136.3 minutes and the full cycle is 181.3 minutes, leaving 45.0 minutes of wireline, pump-down and plug work. That is the whole decision window — and you are sharing it. At 6 iterations:

Classic loop · 144 clicks

7.2 min · 16% of the window

Fast lane · 36 clicks

1.8 min · 4% of the window

Iterations the window allows (interface time only)

37 classic → 149 fast lane

Interface time handed back

5.4 min

Interface minutes assume 3 seconds per action. That is a stated assumption, not something we measured on your crew — the click counts underneath it come from the shipped workflow. Solver time is separate and depends on your case.

Design the pad here, on this page

ESTIMATE

Change any number and every figure below moves with it — the same planning arithmetic the free calculator runs, closed form, not a solved simulation. An input that cannot support the arithmetic is refused by name and the answers are pulled off the screen rather than rounded into range.

Slurry per stage

10907.6 bbl

Pump time

136.3 min

Stage cycle

181.3 min

Rate per cluster

10.00 bpm

Rate per perf

1.667 bpm

Perf friction (target 500 psi)

647 psi

Stages on the pad

200

Lateral treated

40,000 ft

Pumping days

30.2

Stages per day

6.6

Water

2,095,238 bbl · 19,048 trucks

Proppant

80.0 MMlb · 1,600 trailers

Hydraulic horsepower

Withheld

  • Hydraulic horsepower is withheld: no treating pressure was entered, and it is not guessed from the rate.

What the rate does to the day

Slurry rateSlurry / stagePump minCycle minStages / dayPad daysPerf psiLimited entry
50 bpm10907.6218.2263.24.5643.9253not held
60 bpm10907.6181.8226.85.2937.8364not held
70 bpm10907.6155.8200.85.9833.5496not held
80 bpm10907.6136.3181.36.6230.2647held
90 bpm10907.6121.2166.27.2227.7819held
100 bpm10907.6109.1154.17.7925.71012held

Where limited entry stops holding

Clusters per stageSlurry / stagePump minCycle minStages / dayPad daysPerf psiLimited entry
410907.6136.3181.36.6230.22590held
610907.6136.3181.36.6230.21151held
810907.6136.3181.36.6230.2647held
1010907.6136.3181.36.6230.2414not held
1210907.6136.3181.36.6230.2288not held

Both tables re-plan your pad above, changing one knob at a time. Limited entry is called held only when perf friction reaches 500 psi — the rule of thumb, not a solved diversion result.

Why it is fast

One screen, five keys

Needs access

Inputs, QC, run, review, iterate all live on one page. Keys 1–5 jump between them and Enter takes the next action, so a re-solve never means re-navigating the app.

QC clearance carries forward

Needs access

Clearing ingest QC once holds across parameter tweaks on the same revision. You do not re-certify the same data every time you nudge a rate.

Pre-flight estimate before you spend solver time

Needs access

The study designer estimates the cost of a run before it starts, so you find out a configuration is out of budget while you can still change it.

Tweaks you actually reach for at the pad

Needs access

A fixed list of 8 on-site changes — rate, proppant loading, viscosity, stage length, cluster count, closure stress, leakoff — queued and re-solved without rebuilding the case.

Glove mode

Needs access

Larger targets and reduced motion for a tablet in a truck, remembered per engineer.

Free diagnostics, no login

Free

Paste shut-in pressure or step-down plateaus and get a pre-closure regime call and perf/near-wellbore split in the browser.

The tweaks the lane offers

No form hunting. These are queued, applied and re-solved against the same case:

Rate +10%
Rate −10%
Proppant loading +15%
Fluid viscosity +20%
Stage length −10%
Clusters +2
Closure stress +5%
Leakoff coeff −15%

Fast is not the same as loose

Speed here comes from removing interface work, not from skipping physics or hiding doubt. The same rules apply in the fast lane as everywhere else: an estimate is labelled an estimate, a run that did not converge shows no number, and every export carries its caveats inside the file.