China National Offshore Oil

Reservoir Engineer

Calgary, AB

About This Job

Country

Canada

Location

Calgary

Employment Type

Employee

Requisition Number

CAN02604

Closing date

Jun-23-2025

Company Overview

Welcome to CNOOC International. We are a global energy company and subsidiary of CNOOC Limited with a vision of delivering safe, sustainableenergy for all.

CNOOC International, the international division of CNOOC Limited, is a global energy company with operations in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe. Our successful growth as an upstream oil and gas producer has been achieved by consistently finding and developing world-class assets.

Our business is focused on safely exploring and producing from conventional offshore, unconventional and oil sands assets. As part of the CNOOC Group of companies, which span the entire energy supply chain, our size and capability create a competitive advantage that ensures we deliver long-term value.

In Canada, CNOOC International has oil sands assets in Long Lake, located in northern Alberta just south of Fort McMurray, which is a SAGD and partial Upgrader operation with production capacity of 85,000 barrels of bitumen a day. We also have interest in several other oil sands projects, including Hangingstone, operated by Greenfire Resources Operating Corporation and Syncrude’s oil sands mining upgrading facility. In addition to our oil sands business, we have shale gas land in Northeast British Columbia, a power station in Balzac, Alberta, and interest in a wind farm in southern Alberta. Calgary is our regional corporate office for all North America.

CNOOC and You

Your career at CNOOC is about moving forward – learning new skills, broadening experiences, and making meaningful contributions. From personal career development that enables you to fulfill your potential, to employee programs that help you make the most of work life balance.

We encourage and promote work-life balance by allowing you to participate in our Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) that will give you two Fridays off per month and flexible work hours.

In exchange for your dedicated work is a total rewards package that not only recognizes your contribution, but also provides for your family. We offer competitive Company-paid benefitsthat support yourmental, physical and financial well-being! Including an annual Wellness Account, a generous paramedical allowance, and access to a team of Virtual Health Care professionals to guide you to the right medical resource. Save for your future by participating in our Pension plan and join our Savings Planwith Company-matching. We encourage you to further step up for your community by giving you two paid volunteer days, volunteer rewards and sports grants tosupport causes you are passionate about.

Bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the determination to fuel our success are what set us apart. Therefore, we are seeking a Reservoir Engineerto join our growing team in Calgary, Alberta.This dynamic role will be a part of CNOOC's D&P department, focused on Oil Sands Reservoir Operation & Management.

Your Background

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Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in Engineering

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Must be registered as a Professional Engineer, or eligible for membership with APEGA

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3+ years of experience in thermal reservoir engineering

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Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams

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Broad knowledge of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, and production engineering

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Operational, SAGD or other thermal process experience is desirable.

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Software: Excel, Power BI, Spotfire, R, CMG, Intersect

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Working knowledge and understanding of the upstream Oilsands business model

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Detailed knowledge and / or experience of the following:

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Reservoir forecasting experience in oil and gas (SAGD preferred)

+ Oil Sands reserves evaluation + SAGD Development Projects + Economic Evaluation + Probabilistic & Uncertainty Analysis + Thermal Simulation

Your Role with Our Team

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Reservoir Surveillance & Optimization: Develop SAGD reservoir operating strategy for new and legacy wells, including technical recommendations and support of economic evaluations of workovers and improvement projects. Monitor and analyze production data, performance, and other reservoir data to maximize value, optimize performance while ensuring compliance. Get opportunity to work with a wide range of well types and production stages with wells comprising well start-ups, new SAGD well pairs, infills, and late life legacy wells.

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Production Forecasting: Use various techniques such as data driven models, analogues and simulation methods to support various corporate processes such as budget and reserves. Improve and enhance current methods for efficiency and accuracy.

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Analytics: Independently apply planning and forecasting tools developed by the team in R, verifying quality of inputs & outputs and working with developers to adapt and improve the toolset and underlying database.

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Stakeholder Engagement: Project updates, technical presentations to team and senior leaders

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Cross-Team Collaboration: Working with Oil Sands Production and Development Teams, Planning/Finance, Drilling and Completions, Health+Safety+Environment, and Facilities.

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Technical Evaluations: Gathering data/information, developing data models, providing analysis and interpretation of results, highlighting anomalies, following up to clarify and validate information, and preparing and providing results and findings

Your Career Development

The opportunities are limitless when you join our team. Our employees are encouraged to drive their development, enhancing their career through experiences, exposure, and education. A mentoring program, on-demand e-Learning courses, and formal training opportunities are all ways in which CNOOC International supports your career growth.

Closing Statement

All positions require background checks which could include:

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Criminal police record check

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Education verification

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Credential verification