geomecon GmbH is a private consultancy located in Berlin, Germany. geomecon provides specific geomechanical solutions that satisfy the challenges set by their customers in the geothermal, mineral extraction, hydrocarbon, radioactive waste disposal, and rock engineering industries. The multi-disciplinary testing and consulting approach combines sound fracture mechanics principles with empirically derived relationships. The core business areas include: stress field determination wellbore stability mud window planning structural geology modeling hydraulic fracture network optimisation hydraulic fracturing integrity assessment reservoir geomechanics The research and development activities comprise: constitutive fracture mechanics model development code development for a fracture mechanics code that is based on latest XFEM