Optimizing Completions with Guided Frac

Turning Well Designs into Real-Time Execution

Completions teams spend significant effort building frac designs that balance rock behavior, operational constraints, and economic targets. Yet once those designs reach the field, conditions shift, pressures change, ramps vary, and small deviations accumulate across pads.

Corva’s Guided Frac bridges this gap by transforming the design from a static document into a real-time, adaptive guidance layer that helps crews stay aligned with plan, reduce variability, and avoid costly surprises.

“Design is the plan. Guided Frac is the path that keeps you on it.”

A Dynamic View for a Dynamic Operation

Traditional treatment plots make it difficult to understand how current execution compares with the design or what the stage's true trajectory looks like. Guided Frac replaces that uncertainty with a consolidated, contextualized view that overlays:

  • Real-time treating rate, pressure, and proppant data
  • Planned ramp schedules and design envelopes
  • Trends from previous stages in the same well
  • Cost brackets tied to horsepower, pressure, and time

By adding context that crews typically have to piece together mentally, Corva’s Guided Frac serves as a navigation layer for frac execution, showing not just what’s happening, but whether the stage is progressing efficiently and safely.

Quantifying Drift to Prevent Cost Creep

Small, unintentional departures from the design, such as slower ramps, higher pressures, or off-target volumes, often go unrecognized in the moment but meaningfully impact overall performance and cost. Corva's Guided Frac makes these deviations measurable through:

  • Design adherence: quantifying how closely each stage follows the plan
  • Stage categorization: identifying behaviors such as high pressure, inconsistent ramping, clean sweeps, or mid-stage shutdowns

These insights create a continuous improvement loop, helping teams spot recurring patterns, standardize responses, and tighten execution across pads and fleets.

Intelligent Alerts Without the Noise

Corva's Guided Frac includes an alerting system built to highlight the signals that matter, not overwhelm crews with alarms. It surfaces deviations from plan, unusual pressure behavior, and risk patterns early enough for teams to take meaningful action.

Alerts are configurable to each operator’s priorities, whether the focus is risk mitigation, execution quality, or cost control, ensuring crews receive targeted, relevant guidance instead of generic threshold alarms. The result is reduced cognitive load and more confident, informed decision-making.

Proven Impact Across Fleets

Operators using Corva’s Guided Frac have seen measurable gains, including:

  • Lower cost drift through tighter adherence to design
  • Fewer high-impact events, such as near screen-outs
  • Reduced variability, enabling more predictable operations fleetwide

Across multi-well programs, even modest improvements in adherence and event avoidance can translate into substantial annual savings and smoother operational planning.

Flexible and Easy to Deploy

Guided Frac is designed to slot into existing workflows. It works with standard Corva hardware and requires only pumping schedules and contract brackets to get started. The framework is flexible enough to support different frac strategies and can adapt to other pumping-based operations where design, execution, and cost visibility matter.

A New Standard for Real-Time Completions

Frac designs are more than paper; they’re intent, expertise, and investment. Corva’s Guided Frac ensures that intent carries through to execution by combining real-time data, design intelligence, and actionable guidance in one unified experience.

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