MPD Project Engineer II

Weatherford•Houston, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Weatherford U.S., L.P. is seeking an MPD Project Engineer II to provide design and field support for Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) operations. This role involves utilizing hydraulic simulations and procedural expertise to develop safe and efficient drilling plans. The engineer will collaborate with operators, MPD crews, third parties, and regulatory entities. Responsibilities span office and field operations, covering the Weatherford MPD product suite for both land and offshore environments. This includes planning and supporting MPD operations through engineering simulations for steady state and transient ECD/ESD profiles, surge and swab simulations, tripping schedules, influx tolerance simulations, pill placement, fullovers, surface line frictional pressure loss calculations, and MGS flow capacity calculations. The role also involves writing MPD operating and contingencies procedures, drawing piping and instrumentation diagrams, and analyzing well parameters for improvements and inefficiency detection.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Petroleum Engineering or related field of study and 5 years of progressive field experience in deepwater operations, including at least 3 years of Managed Pressure Drilling support.
Master’s degree or equivalent in Petroleum Engineering or related field of study and 3 years of field experience in deepwater operations, including at least 1 year of Managed Pressure Drilling support, in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of progressive experience.
Single and multi-phase hydraulic simulator and steady state and transient models.
Mud logging and data analysis.
Manage Pressure Drilling well planning software.
Drilling Hydraulics Simulator Software.
Writing and executing MPD procedures for deepwater drilling operations.
Hands on experience with Influx tolerance simulations (transient), manage pressure drilling matrix and IME.
Constant Bottomhole Pressure (CBHP) well displacement simulation calculation.
Generating surge and swab simulations, and tripping schedules.
Performing hole cleaning analysis.
Managing Pressure Cementing (MPC) schedules.
Generating choke ramp tables.
Surface line and equipment frictional pressure loss calculations.

Responsibilities

Design and field support for Manage Pressure Drilling (MPD) operations with solutions related with hydraulic simulations and procedural expertise.
Work closely with Operator’s related disciplines, MPD crew, third parties well systems, and regulatory entities to come up with safe and efficient plans to drill a MPD well.
Cover operations, from office (Weatherford or client) or location, included with the Weatherford MPD product suite (Victus automated MPD system, Pressure Pro MPD system, Rotating Control Devices, Riser Gas Handling system, Multiphase injection and multiphase returns/flow drilling managed pressure control, for both land and offshore operations).
Plan and support MPD operations by working on MPD engineering simulations for steady state and transient Equivalent Circulating Density/Equivalent Static Density (ECD/ESD) profiles in function of different MPD and drilling parameters (SBP, flow rate, mud specs, rpm, rop, etc.) and at well conditions (limitations, temperature/compressibility, rpm, and cuttings load effect, etc.).
Assist with surge and swab simulations and tripping schedules (drilling BHA and casing).
Work on influx tolerance simulations (transient), MPD Matrix and IME.
Work on the pill placement and fullovers.
Assist with surface line/equipment frictional pressure loss calculation, along with MGS flow capacity calculations.
Write MPD operating and contingencies procedures.
Draw piping and instrumentation diagrams and analyze well parameter to propose improvements as well as detect inefficiencies.