Staff Drilling Engineer
About The Position
CSI Recruiting is working with a privately owned exploration and production company focused on underdeveloped onshore U.S. oil and gas basins with drilling and development opportunities. Founded over 20 years ago, the client is a small, highly effective organization with a strong capital structure. The ownership team supports growth and champions new projects. The company offers a dynamic, agile environment where new hires can directly impact exploration and development activities. The Drilling Engineer provides drilling engineering and operational support for the company’s drilling programs and plans and delivers detailed drilling projects. The company’s assets include conventional and unconventional resource plays. The ideal candidate has comprehensive knowledge of horizontal drilling design and operations across a diverse range of domestic onshore oil and gas plays. This is an in-office, Monday–Friday position with travel to the field as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering or another engineering discipline.
- 8 to 15 years of hands-on drilling engineering and operations experience, including prior horizontal, field development, and exploration drilling project work.
- Horizontal drilling experience.
- Strong working knowledge of drilling hazards and their mitigation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Proficiency in related software.
Nice To Haves
- Horizontal drilling experience in the Permian Basin is preferred.
- Experience with extended lateral drilling, rotary steerable systems, and other extended-reach technologies is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop project scope, well designs, and cost estimates during early project stages.
- Prepare final well designs and drilling programs for exploration, delineation, and development wells, including rig selection criteria, casing and drill string designs, mud and cement programs, wellbore evaluation programs, and well control procedures.
- Work closely with geoscientists, completion engineers, production operations, regulatory analysts, and reservoir engineers.
- Monitor real-time and post-well costs and verify and approve wells.
- Keep senior management informed of progress and incidents, and consult on higher-risk problems and projects.
- Liaise with drilling superintendents on program preparation, execution, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and forward planning.
- Maintain strong working relationships with on-site supervisors, contractors, and service providers.
- Design wells in support of field development.
- Prepare cost estimates and assess risk.
- Report on and optimize operations.
- Apply technology and innovation in directional drilling, mud systems, casing and drill string design, and completions.
- Manage the logistics and reporting of operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
