Senior Reservoir Simulation – Enhanced Recovery Engineer

Plano, TX

 

COMPANY

Our client is a growing independent oil and gas company. The company is the largest oil and natural gas operator in Mississippi, owns the largest reserves of CO2 used for tertiary oil recovery east of the Mississippi River, and holds key operating acreage in onshore Louisiana, Alabama and Texas Barnett Shale areas. The Company increases the value of acquired properties in its core areas through a combination of exploitation drilling and proven engineering extraction practices.

ABOUT THE POSITION & SPECIFIC DUTIES

Our client is seeking an experienced geologist with advanced reservoir description expertise. Job responsibilities include conducting and directing integrated reservoir description studies. The candidate will be a key member of a fully integrated, interdisciplinary team of geoscientists and advanced simulation/enhanced recovery engineers employing compositional simulation to assist in the design and management of CO2 floods. Good communication skills are required to interface with geoscience and engineering staff responsible for the company’s many existing and pending the CO2 flood implementations and management.

 

REQUIREMENTS

Geologist with a PhD degree and 20+ years of major oil company experience is preferred. The candidate should have a demonstrated expertise and extensive experience in sequence and genetic stratigraphy, clastic sedimentology with a demonstrated capability in subsurface stratigraphic studies, correlation, mapping, core description/interpretation, and facies analysis. Candidate should have been a member of a team responsible for integrated reservoir simulation studies. In addition, candidate should have experience and expertise in using current industry software for subsurface studies. An advanced capability in using geostatistics for generation of reservoir geologic models for reservoir simulation studies using oil industry contemporary geostatistical software is required.

The successful candidate will be an organized, disciplined individual and have a reputation for integrity, maturity and sound business judgment.  This individual's well-developed written and verbal skills will enable the successful candidate to clearly and concisely carry out programs, increase performance and implement strategic decisions that will add value for the company.