Plan view — one stage — schematic

Same volume, two very different stages

Looking straight down on a single stage from surface. Identical design, identical fluid and proppant, identical pump time — both sides place 100% of stage volume. The only difference is whether anyone is watching the clusters while they are being pumped, and intervening.

Conventional completionStress shadow uncontested · no real-time diagnosticsOFFSET WELLCONTAINMENT THRESHOLDTOEHEELFDI — FRACTURE HAS PASSED THE OFFSET WELLStage complete — 100% placed: 4 clusters took 92% of it, 4 took almost noneREFRAC CANDIDATEMISSED OPPORTUNITYRUNAWAY HALF-LENGTH SETS REQUIRED SPACINGMachina-managed completionSeismos perf efficiency + MicroSeismic SRV · live interventionOFFSET WELLCONTAINMENT THRESHOLDTOEHEELStage complete — 100% placed, 8 of 8 clusters to design, every tip on the same lineDESIGNED SRVSPACING OPPORTUNITY100%PUMPEDSHARE OF STAGE VOLUME BY CLUSTER12.5% design12345678STAGE VOLUME PLACED100%CLUSTERS TAKING FLUID0 / 8CLUSTERS AT DESIGN VOLUME0 / 8MAX FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH3.9× designFRAC-DRIVEN INTERACTIONDETECTEDACTIVE INTERVENTIONnone availableSHARE OF STAGE VOLUME BY CLUSTER12.5% design12345678STAGE VOLUME PLACED100%CLUSTERS TAKING FLUID0 / 8CLUSTERS AT DESIGN VOLUME8 / 8MAX FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH1.0× designFRAC-DRIVEN INTERACTIONnoneACTIVE INTERVENTIONmonitoringPublished industry data: as much as 80% of production comes from 20% of clusters,and as much as 40% of clusters contribute no measurable production.Schematic — illustrative geometry, not measured field data. Both panels share one length scale.In collaboration with Seismos and MicroSeismic Inc.
100%

The volume has to go somewhere

Watch the stage volume placed readout on both panels. They track together and both finish at 100%. The fluid and proppant the four interior clusters never took did not disappear — it went into length on the toe and heel clusters and the two just inside them.

Watch the tips

Every fracture tip is marked. On the left they end wherever the rock let them, out to nearly four times the design half-length and well past the offset well. On the right every tip stops on the same line, because that is where it was told to stop.

The Machina loop, run four times

  1. Seismos reads perforation efficiency live — which clusters are communicating.
  2. MicroSeismic reads the SRV cloud and watches for FDI.
  3. A dominant cluster nears the containment threshold → far-field diverter.
  4. Contained, it is pumped to its pro-rata design volume.
  5. Volume placed → near-wellbore diverter closes it.
  6. Wellbore pressure rises, the next clusters break down, repeat.

Schematic illustration, not measured field data. Both panels are drawn to a single length scale and place identical total volume; geometry, extents and volume shares communicate mechanism and do not represent any specific well. Plan view shows SRV length and width; SRV height containment is out of this plane. The cluster-contribution statistics cited on the left panel are published industry data, not ProFrac or Machina measurements. Intervention triggers and containment thresholds are designed jointly with the customer's engineering team and vary by well.