
Kevin Eichinger
Senior Completions Engineer BKV CorporationKevin Eichinger serves as chairperson of the committee for the SPE Refracturing Workshop and is a senior completions engineer for BKV Corporation where he leads refracturing candidate selection, job design, and technical trials. Eichinger and his team have executed approximately 400 refrac projects to date and authored or coauthored two highly cited Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) papers. One paper, detailing a creative and efficient “hybrid liner” refracturing method, was featured on the cover of JPT's November 2023 issue. The other, which outlined a novel well-performance methodology for identifying refrac candidates, earned a “Best of Paper” award at URTeC.