Operations Petroleum Engineer
KS Search Group
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Monitoring lease production.
- Identifying, diagnosing, and remedying issues affecting production levels
- Preparing well and lease level economic evaluations.
- Analyzing pumping unit rod string designs utilizing the S Rod design program.
- Develop projects to increase production and enhance field operations.
- Weekly trips to field locations to optimize operations and regularly meet with field personnel.
- Managing field personnel to maximize the cash flow and value of our oil and gas assets while ensuring our operations are conducted in a safe and environmentally sound manner.
- Mutually develop with Senior Operations Engineer/Oklahoma Asset Manager, production targets and actively monitor actual production to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted to ensure consistent production twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
- Coordinate with Accounting, Business Development, and Land departments as required.
- Working with a team of field personnel to:
- Provide strategic, technical, and operational perspective to the team.
- Establish individual property level cash flow budgets. Communicate with field staff to achieve property level production, expense, cash flow, and other goals and objectives.
- Mutually develop with Senior Operations Engineer/Oklahoma Asset Manager cost targets and actively monitor actual costs to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted.
- Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute opportunities to maximize value through well reactivations, artificial lift enhancements, waterflood optimizations, battery and SWD consolidations, etc.
- Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute capital investment projects such as injection well conversions, recompletions, new drilling, etc.
- Develop procedures to maximize value of existing and acquired properties by identifying and executing three-pronged strategy of operating costs reductions, production enhancements, and capex program
- B.S. in Petroleum/Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 5 years experience
- Oil and gas experience required
- Represent company in a positive, professional manner at all times and in all interactions
- Possess strong problem-solving skills
- Accountable for actions and results
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with internal and external customers
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills and good management practices
- Ability to act with a high degree of independence
- Analytical, quick-thinking, ability to review complex problems and propose effective solutions
- Strong ability to prepare and review complex engineering calculations and analyses
- Self-motivated with a high level of individual initiative