Reservoir Engineer

We are an active, independent oil & gas exploration company currently looking for a reservoir engineer. Must reside in the Abilene, Texas area. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementation of new waterfloods along with surveillance of existing Eastern Shale waterfloods in the Abilene area. As an active contributing member of a small team, this Engineer will be responsible for all reservoir engineering aspects to increase the Recoverable Reserves, Rate of Return, & Net Present Value of existing and all new waterfloods. The scope of work from this role ranges from pre-flood recovery and economic screening to conducting unitization meetings to testifying before the Texas Railroad Commission for unitization approval to implementation and surveillance of all company waterfloods.

Qualifications:

- 5 -10 years Reservoir Engineering experience, with 3 - 5+ years of waterflood experience.

- Bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering.

- Experience with all phases - both technical and non-technical needed to implement a waterflood.

- Experience with economic programs - preferably PowerTools.

- Experience with Petra for mapping and cross sections

- Experience with waterflood recovery analytical prediction methods.

- Proven track record of implementing and maintaining a successful economic waterflood.

- Experience with petrophysical analyses, special core tests, compatibility tests and fluid property evaluations.

- Experience maximizing areal and vertical sweet efficiencies along with optimizing the displacement efficiency.

- Experience with pressure transient analyses - including drawdowns, buildups and interference testing.

- Experience with tracers.

- Experience with step rate tests, injection profile tests, and hall plots.

Duties:

- Create base maps, structure maps, net pay maps, HCPV maps, and cross section.

- Construct and update wellbore diagrams along with well history.

- Determine optimum injection well placement / pattern, interval for injection, and predicted injection rates vs. time per well.

- Calculate ultimate primary recovery and the projected secondary recovery and timing for evaluation of the economics.

- Handle unitization partner meetings.

- Testify at the Texas Railroad Commission on hearings necessary for the approval of each waterflood unit.

- Perform all necessary compatibility tests.

- Design and perform annual step rate tests on each injector.

- Perform annual injection profile tests for each injector.

- Monitor monthly each individual production and injection well performance.

- Monitory monthly pattern balancing, water cut maps, etc.

- Handle any other Reservoir Engineering assignments needed.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Health insurance

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Vision insurance

Compensation Package:

- Bonus opportunities

- Yearly pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Abilene, TX: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Note: The above duties and requirements are not exhaustive. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed. Actual salary will be dependent on experience.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $175,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Health insurance

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Vision insurance

Work Location: In person