Production Engineer

A major oil and gas operator is looking for a Production Engineer to support operations in Houston, TX on a M-F schedule working 8 hrs a day, 40 hrs a week. This is a 6-month contract opportunity with the potential for extension.

This role will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Work directly with Operations, Workover Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Facilities, Land, Geoscience, and Planning to deliver SAFE, reliable, and cost-efficient reactive well repair and proactive optimization projects
• Surveillance of production and injection rates to identify performance improvement opportunities
• Evaluation of well repair options, enhancement opportunities, associated costs, likelihood of success, and expected production to determine economic value required to justify Authority for Expenditures
• Work with Operations & Facilities Teams to identify, evaluate, and recommend cost reduction, reliability and/or debottlenecking projects (rate adding projects)
• Identify high failure frequency wells (fail more than twice in the past 12 months) and proactively do whatever work is required to extend runtime
• Work with Reservoir Engineering and Geoscience Teams to identify rate adding opportunities (e.g. add perfs, water shut-offs, plugbacks, frac potential, etc.).
• Design, install, troubleshoot, and optimize operation of Rod Lift, ESP, Gas Lift, and/or Plunger Lift artificial lift systems for new and existing wells
• Perform Root Cause Failure Analysis on all artificial lift types and recommend solutions to increase runtime between failures in an effort to decrease lease operating expense and increase production
• Work with Land and Operations Teams to ensure acreage is maintained within LOA and all necessary work is done in a timely manner to prevent any leasehold from being compromised
• Provide economic justification for any automation necessary to perform production and injection surveillance at the well, lease, field, and asset level
• Ensure wellbore integrity and perform risk management assessments on any operated offset well due to frac hits or any other SimOps situation, either operated or non-operated by the company
• Engage partners as applicable and provide input to partner reviews
• Develop and maintain existing and new surveillance data sets and tools necessary to perform optimization workflows for all production and injection well types
• Build, maintain, and tune nodal analysis models to ensure each well’s performance is optimized within network constraints and design
• Train Engineering and Operational personnel on Surveillance and Optimization tools, datasets, and workflows

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering required, from a competitive four-year college or university, with strong academic credentials
• Experience working for operator upstream energy companies, in production engineering and production operations, in the Permian Basin
• Must be proficient in all Microsoft applications and other E&P computer applications (i.e: Wellview, Cygnet, Spotfire, OFM, Foresite, Wellflo, Prosper, Rodstar, ESP surveillance tools)
• Preference for a candidate with experience in managing, manipulating, and merging large datasets which feed surveillance tools and workflows
• Strong communication, interpersonal, management, administrative, organizational, and leadership skills
• Experience implementing sound decisions when faced with multi-faceted problems
• Demonstrated ability to engage engineering and operations teammates, build teamwork, and learn from and mentor others

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