Staff Production Engineer - OKC

Our core values — Stewardship, Character, Collaborate, Learn, Disrupt — are the lens through which we evaluate every business decision. As a dynamic, growing company that offers extremely competitive compensation and benefits, our employees are our most valued assets and the foundation of Expands performance among our E&P competitors.

We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. We realize that, historically, underrepresented groups feel the need to be 100% qualified in order to apply. If you meet any combination of our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We strive to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

Job Summary

This senior level position performs aspects of engineering assignments under general direction and guidance in order to provide technical and specialized solutions to petrotechnical engineering challenges.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

- Develops engineering controls and processes to mitigate Health, Safety, and Environmental risks within assigned area of responsibility

- Optimizes the production and cost-to-produce a large well-set within a specific region of the Haynesville asset

- Monitors production rates, and plans rework processes to improve production

- Develops logic-based alarms and automated wellsite actions to facilitate unsupervised risk management and production optimization

- Evaluates costs and estimates the production capabilities and economic value of gas wells, to evaluate the economic viability of potential projects

- Assists field operations teams and other technical personnel to solve operating problems

- Supports forecasting process through providing production, expense and timing projections for assigned area

- Analyzes data to recommend placement of wells and supplementary processes to enhance production

- Confers with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel to resolve design, research, and testing problems

- Provides monitoring and surveillance programs for reservoir performance, and coordinates these programs to determine if the development plan is congruent with management strategy

- Performs field and screening studies of existing assets and potential acquisitions, including associated economic analyses

- Performs other duties as assigned

Job Specific Skills

- Advanced 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

- Advanced knowledge and practical application of well performance/nodal analysis, volumetric and decline curve analyses

- Advanced knowledge and practical application of pipeline hydraulics modeling and the associated gas field infrastructure optimization workflow

- Advanced knowledge and practical application of economic evaluation, work overs and production optimization opportunities

- Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions

- Preferred: Advanced knowledge and practical application of data science problem solving methods

- Preferred: Advanced knowledge of gas gathering system operations and the process to manage gas flows through a system to downstream markets

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: 5 - 8 years related work experience

Expand Energy takes necessary action to ensure that all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

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.

Nearest Major Market:

Oklahoma City

Nearest Secondary Market:

Oklahoma

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Pipeline, Risk Management, Engineer, Hydraulics, Energy, Finance, Engineering, Research