Engineering Technician - Reservoir and Production

W&T Offshore, Inc. • Houston, TX

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering Technician reports to the Asset Manager(s) and works collaboratively with Reservoir & Production Engineers in the Asset Teams with project management and engineering surveillance activities. The Engineering Technician needs to work independently.

Requirements

• Associate degree in technical/engineering field, preferred; Bachelor’s degree in related field a plus.
• Minimum 5 + years engineering technician experience in a similar role required.
• Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Proficiency in Aries DB is a requirement, along with the ability to work in applications such as RIO, IHS Perform, IHS Harmony, and WellEz.
• Strong Emphasis on use of Excel for data manipulation.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Access, PowerPoint & Outlook)
• Ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet established deadlines.
• Familiarity with field operations: understanding of offshore oilfield operations.
• Excellent organizational skills and time management skills
• Strong communication skills: ability to interact professionally and effectively across the business.
• Able to grasp new concepts quickly and work with minimal supervision.
• Strong proficiency for working with (and engaging) team members with a specific desired outcome to extract more routine data handling from engineers in ways that will allow engineers to do focus their time on analytics versus data handling.
• Strong work ethic with an emphasis on data quality & data accuracy.
• Time management awareness, technical acumen, & high grading prioritization of deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Provides responsive support to assigned teams; works with engineers within the teams to ensure all databases and applications are efficiently integrated. Help in creating consistency in the Aries database for the Asset Team. Maintain the Prospect Inventory Database (PID) and support weekly meetings and reviews.
• Support Engineers on generation of AFEs along with supporting presentation packages and the development of economic justification cases. Provide weekly update of Nymex price files to Aries.
• Create and utilize spreadsheets and databases, screening and analyzing data, generating plots, and use of other analytical tools.
• Support of Reservoir Engineers in preparing regulatory filings of SRI reports annually for applicable wells and fields.
• Prepare and maintain field wide wellbore utility charts on fields.
• Perform consistent production surveillance on fields/wells to include trend variance analysis and report to Engineers.
• Prepare and Publish Monthly Production Variance report and slide deck.
• Ensure major fields are addressed; ensure major variances in volumes are addressed.
• Seek explanations for same through conversations and learnings with teams/production Engineers and provide on a timely basis each month.
• Track production daily and report same monthly as part of the monthly variance process. Compare and contrast Forecast and Budget.
• Develop and maintain networks and relationships with key peers and colleagues in other teams to promote the sharing of information/ideas and general skill development.
• Take accountability for and prepare well-count determination for Annual 10K Reports before timelines required and provide Manager for QAQC/review.
• Support presentation of operating plans, annual budgets, and other organizational activities. Track and report quarterly Recomplete and Workover activity for the BOD slides. Prepare Economic metric slide for drill wells and recompletions in the Budget.

Benefits

• W&T offers a competitive total rewards program designed to provide competitive pay, health and financial benefits, and work-life balance.
• W&T Offshore Inc. offers competitive total rewards including health & welfare benefits, 401k match, competitive pay and an annual bonus program (STI).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees