Sr. Completions Design Engineer

SM-Energy Company • Denver, CO

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

Seeking a dynamic, experienced, and value driven engineer for our Southwest Completions Design team. In this role, you will join a team consisting of engineers and a technician. Your primary responsibility will be to handle completion designs, completion operations surveillance, and completion effectiveness/evaluation assignments with a broad scope. You will work closely with asset and completion team members to ensure that well completions align with our business objectives.

Requirements

• Proficient understanding of unconventional resource plays in regard to completion design and execution for horizontal wells.
• Ability to efficiently analyze and manipulate data to draw insights.
• Software skills needed may include Spotfire, ARIES, ResFrac, Alteryx, WellView, MS Office.
• Experienced in asset development of unconventional (horizontal) resource plays.
• Strong understanding of oil and gas economic evaluations and their appropriate application.
• Command of fundamental reservoir engineering and geologic/geophysical/geomechanical disciplines.
• Understands important geological, petrophysical and geochemical properties for unconventional plays.
• Understanding core completions concepts and value drivers.
• Proficient and strong ability to learn and apply new skills and technologies.
• Proficient and strong use and application of standard subsurface principles.
• Can easily identify limitations in data set and range in certainty of results.
• Ability to build and lead a strong team.
• 8+ years Full-Time Engineering Experience Preferred (Experience in both Reservoir and Completions Engineering a plus)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with fiber optics and perforation imaging a plus.
• Programming skills in Python a plus.
• Experience in both Reservoir and Completions Engineering a plus

Responsibilities

• Identify critical needs and issues to develop specific well completion designs and alternatives for consideration. Analyze historical company and industry completion designs to provide recommendations.
• Evaluate well performance as a function of completion design, normalizing for all variables including well spacing, geology, design, depletion, parent/child interactions, etc.
• Utilize multi-variate modeling and frac modeling software to sensitize frac design options and effectively communicate results.
• Collaborate with the technical subsurface teams to understand the impacts of completion design decisions on drainage, frac effectiveness, and well spacing.
• Work closely with reservoir engineers, completion execution engineers, geologists, geophysicists, and other professionals in the development of completion designs and diagnostics.
• Test and implement new technologies aimed at cost reduction and/or improved well performance. Experience with fiber optics and perforation imaging a plus.
• Develop correlations between geological and completion variables and their impact on well performance.
• Analyze Fracture Injection Tests (DFIT, LOT, XLOT, SDT) using various methods, leverage learnings to improve frac placement, reduce operational challenges and associated costs.
• Collaborate with drilling and geo-ops to synthesize post-drilling observations in completion design packages to reduce operational risk, improve target attainment and minimize NPT.
• Integrate large data from various sources to formulate insights and make economic recommendations.
• Communicate completion design plans, progress, and results to the Asset/Management team.
• Conduct lookbacks and integrate learnings with the goal of increasing asset value during each drilling cycle.
• Provide AFE (Authorization for Expenditure) cost estimates for completion design plans and diagnostics.
• Cultivate strong relationships with offset operator representatives and third-party suppliers.
• Conduct all business activities with the highest ethical standards, emphasizing decision-making that ensures the safety of all personnel associated with SM facilities.

Benefits

• SM Energy offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which include, but are not limited to, variable pay, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. Details are available at Careers :: SM Energy Company (SM) (sm-energy.com) [https://www.sm-energy.com/careers].

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees