Reserves Engineer
About The Position
Caturus is seeking a highly motivated Reserves Engineer to support reserves evaluation and analysis. The role maintains the corporate ARIES database, supports corporate financial planning and analysis, and contributes to corporate economic evaluations, including acquisitions and divestitures. The Reserves Engineer serves as a liaison among engineering, accounting, IT, GIS, finance, operations, land, and other teams to promote consistent and accurate organizational data. The position is based in Houston, Texas, and reports to the VP, Corporate Reserves. Caturus is a Houston-based private exploration and production company developing natural gas resources in the Eagle Ford, Austin Chalk, and Haynesville formations in Texas and Louisiana. It is part of a platform founded by Kimmeridge that includes upstream operations and Commonwealth LNG, an LNG export terminal under development in southwestern Louisiana. The platform aims to deliver responsibly sourced, low-emission fuel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- At least 5 years of experience in reservoir engineering, reserves, investment banking, data analysis, or a related oil and gas role.
- Oil and gas industry experience.
- Strong ARIES database skills and experience working with relational databases and large data models.
- Understanding of SEC Reserves guidelines and workflows, reserves and asset evaluations, A&D processes, and reservoir engineering principles.
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office products and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Spotfire, or Tableau.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Team-oriented approach and ability to work within a small team that interacts across the company.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and administer corporate SQL and Access databases, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
- Prepare reserves estimates, production forecasts, and economic models using ARIES and Excel.
- Lead reserves reporting and reconciliation, and help drive internal budgeting and planning processes.
- Support acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate strategy through reserves and valuation analysis.
- Develop and manage data models and relationships for cross-functional analysis and reporting.
- Work with asset engineers to input, validate, and manage production forecasts, reserves, and economic evaluations.
- Communicate insights and risks to senior management through reports and presentations using tools such as SQL, Excel, Spotfire, Power BI, and PowerPoint.
- Collaborate with accounting, GIS, IT, finance, geoscience, and operations teams to ensure consistent, integrated data flows.
- Perform quality-control checks and troubleshoot data discrepancies across systems.
- Automate repetitive data tasks and develop scripts or tools to improve data accessibility and integrity.
- Support process improvements and automation across reserves and planning workflows, including data integration and reporting efficiency.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
