Dr. Jorge Acuña graduated from USC in 1993, where he worked on transient behavior of fractal networks of fractures. He joined Chevron (then Unocal) in 1996 where he became a leading expert in geothermal modeling and engineering. He started work in unconventional pressure and rate transient analysis in 2012 and developed Fractional Dimension RTA between 2016 and 2020. The method was published and implemented in commercial software. He retired from Chevron in 2022 to start his own consulting firm J. Acuna Consulting. He has published extensively on geothermal reservoir and production engineering and pressure and rate transient analysis in unconventional wells.
