Job SummaryThis management position oversees the day to day operating matters for a team of engineers in order to plan and coordinate engineering projects and assignments for a team of professionals engaged in oil and gas engineering operations.
Job Duties & Responsibilities- Manages cost evaluations, and estimations of the production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites
- Manages plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment
- Directs and monitors the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, or well surveys
- Monitors production rates, and plans rework processes to improve production
- Confers with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel to resolve design, research, and testing problems
- Performs field and screening studies of existing assets and potential acquisitions, including associated economic analyses
- Conducts exploration project evaluations to include probabilistic analyses
- Provides monitoring and surveillance programs for reservoir performance, and coordinates these programs to determine if the development plan is congruent with management strategy
- Assumes profit and loss responsibility for assigned area of responsibility
- Reviews business processes for continuous improvement in procedures through optimum utilization of systems and personnel
- Provides direct supervision of personnel; participate in decisions involving hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination of employment
Job Specific Skills- Expert knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of the oil and gas industry
- Expert knowledge and ability to integrate well performance/nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, material balance, volumetric and decline curve analyses in the evaluation are essential
- Expert knowledge and 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, work overs and production optimization opportunities
- Expert knowledge of and skills associated with reservoir simulation techniques
- Expert knowledge of unconventional experience associated with tight gas reservoirs, CBM development, and shale gas resource work
- Knowledge of administrative procedures in order to prepare and maintain reports, budgets, and administrative records as required
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, and the coordination of people and resources
- Ability to ensure all employees are operating within all Expand, state, and federal guidelines, policies, and regulations
EducationMinimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or
Minimum: Other - Professional Engineer (PE) license or
Minimum: 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
ExperienceMinimum: 8 years related work experience
Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the United States.
