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Job Description
Job Summary
This senior level position is considered a team lead that performs detailed aspects of engineering assignments in order to provide technical and specialized solutions to petrotechnical engineering challenges.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Evaluates production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, to estimate the economic viability of potential projects
- Monitors and evaluates performance and completion design effectiveness
- Evaluates well modification and stimulation programs to maximize oil and gas recovery
- Analyzes data to recommend placement of wells and processes to enhance production
- Monitors production rates, identifying workover potential to improve production
- Provides monitoring and surveillance programs for reservoir performance, and coordinates these programs to determine if the development plan is congruent with management strategy
- Assists engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems
- Trains and mentors less experienced engineers
- Works with geologists, other engineers and technical personnel to resolve design and testing problems
- Recommends, acquires, and analyzes the necessary test data used to define accurate reservoir characterization.
- Performs field and screening studies of existing assets and potential acquisitions, including associated economic analyses
- Conducts exploration project evaluations to include probabilistic analyses
- Performs other duties as assigned
Job Specific Skills
- Advanced knowledge of unconventional experience associated with tight gas reservoirs, CBM development, and shale gas resource work
- Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of oil and gas wells
- Advanced knowledge and ability to integrate well performance/nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, material balance, volumetric and decline curve analyses in the evaluation are essential
- Advanced knowledge and practical application of volumetric calculations, decline curve reserve determinations, appropriate analogue techniques and material balance assessments
- Expertise in economic evaluation and reserve assessment for exploration programs, development drilling programs, workovers and production optimization opportunities
- Advanced knowledge of high pressure/high temperature environments
- Advanced knowledge and application of reservoir simulation techniques and knowledge of formation evaluation
- Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
Education
Minimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university
Minimum: One of the following:
Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or
Professional Engineer (PE) license, or
Master’s degree - from accredited university - Master’s of Engineering degree from a program in which the correlating Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the ABET EAC
Experience
Minimum: 8 years related work experience