Reservoir Engineer

Crescent Energy

$100K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical, Geologic Engineering, or related field
  • Minimum 7 years of relevant Exploration & Production experience
  • Expertise in unconventional reservoirs
  • Combination of reservoir, completions, planning, production operations, or drilling experience preferred
  • Proficient in RTA software, especially Whitson+ or Harmony

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute plans to maximize asset value through completion design and optimization
  • Mentor and guide junior reservoir engineers on technical challenges and career development
  • Analyze well performance using RTA and PTA methodologies
  • Utilize machine learning for predictive modeling and optimization of development strategies
  • Interpret advanced data sets to inform completion design and fracture optimization
  • Conduct economic evaluations to support AFE processes and field development
  • Collaborate with finance to align budgets and long-term forecasts with development plans

Benefits

  • Support for ongoing education and professional development
  • Access to advanced analytical tools and technology
  • Opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and equal opportunity
  • Strong commitment to regulatory compliance and best practices in reserves management
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Reservoir Engineer to support asset development across our unconventional portfolio, primarily within the Eagle Ford basin. This role will focus on development planning, production forecasting, and performance evaluation to optimize capital efficiency and recovery. The Reservoir Engineer collaborates across multidisciplinary teams to drive key business decisions on asset development. This role is expected to operate with a high degree of independence while maintaining a strong, team-first mentality, balancing day-to-day economic evaluations with comprehensive well performance analysis.

Key Responsibilities
  • Generate and maintain production forecasts, type curves, and development cases for assigned asset areas.
  • Evaluate well and reservoir performance using rate transient analysis (RTA), pressure transient analysis (PTA), and numerical simulation when necessary.
  • Develop recommendations related to well spacing, landing zones, completion design, and production practices.
  • Perform project-level economic analyses for the purpose of AFEs and field development utilizing ARIES.
  • Build and maintain advanced Spotfire dashboards, modifying existing scripts to dynamically analyze data on a spatial and trend basis.
  • Lead integrated lookbacks that connect reservoir performance with drilling, completion, and operating outcomes.
  • Evaluate and report competitor results detailing interpreted strategies and how it relates to internal practices.
  • Work with the Finance team on budget and long-term forecasting, consistent with the Company's development plan.
  • Foster a highly collaborative, team-first environment to build consensus across engineering, operations, finance, and commercial teams.


Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • 3-8 years of upstream operator experience, with a minimum of 2 years of dedicated reservoir engineering experience.
  • Experience in Unconventional Reservoirs.
  • Strong technical expertise and daily proficiency in ARIES for economic evaluation and decline curve analysis.
  • Proficiency in RTA software, specifically Whitson.
  • Advanced proficiency in Spotfire, with the ability to navigate and modify existing scripts to build robust data visualizations.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
  • Proven team-first mentality with a track record of actively collaborating rather than working in silos.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in the Eagle Ford basin is preferred, but not strictly required.
  • Mix of reservoir, completions, planning, production operations, or drilling experience.
  • Ability to leverage Generative AI tools for practical engineering problem-solving, data analysis, and workflow efficiency.


Benefits & Perks
  • In-office collaboration in Houston, TX.
  • Half-day Fridays.


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