Staff EOR Engineer

Continental Resources•Oklahoma City, OK

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Engineer will conduct reservoir performance evaluations involving numerical reservoir simulation, material balance calculations, rate and pressure transient analysis, petrophysical analysis, and geomechanical modeling. The Staff Engineer will also coordinate those evaluations with laboratory tests, field data collection, and EOS modeling software to evaluate the feasibility of EOR. These tasks will be necessary to design, implement, and evaluate EOR pilot tests, and their potential for scale up. The Staff Engineer may also be tasked with evaluating the performance of our ongoing EOR field development programs. The engineer may be called on to provide expert testimony in regulatory hearings.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum, Chemical, Mechanical or other related engineering discipline from an accredited college or university.
Minimum of eight (8) years of recent, relevant industry experience.
Skilled in relevant industry software.
An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

Nice To Haves

Experience with miscible-gas huff-and-puff EOR in unconventional reservoirs is preferred.
Experience with thermal EOR in conventional heavy-oil reservoirs—including CSS, SAGD, and steam flooding—is preferred.
Advanced understanding of Pressure Transient Analysis and Rate Transient Analysis (RTA) methods is preferred.
Working knowledge of economic programs (ARIES or similar industry software) preferred.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience with numerical reservoir simulation
Minimum of three (3) years of experience with fracture modeling.
Minimum of three (3) years of industry EOR experience
Advanced understanding of Pressure Transient and Rate Transient Analysis and softwares such as Kappa, Harmony and Whitson+.
Working knowledge of economic programs (ARIES or similar industry software).

Responsibilities

Review performance of ongoing industry EOR projects and identify EOR opportunities for exploitation on CLR owned assets and acquisition targets.
Support the screening for potential unconventional EOR projects.
Use numerical reservoir simulation and PVT software, rate and pressure transient analysis and geomechanical modeling as tools to conduct engineering studies to evaluate the potential of various EOR processes and to evaluate EOR pilot performance.
Evaluate pilot or field development performance, identify and recommend appropriate actions to optimize economic benefit.
Identify, design, oversee and potentially conduct a variety of data collection and laboratory testing activities in support of EOR feasibility studies and EOR pilot evaluation.
Reach solid conclusions and recommend projects consistent with engineering studies and company strategy.
Communicate recommendations lucidly and succinctly to management and garner support for projects.
Research, develop and document processes and workflows for duties required.
Assist in budget preparation for anticipated projects.
Support, design and oversee reservoir engineering aspects of field pilot testing activities in cooperation with asset team and operations personnel.
Provide exhibits and expert testimony at regulatory hearings supporting company EOR projects.
Other duties as assigned.