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Job Summary

This intermediate level position performs routine aspects of engineering assignments under general supervision and guidance in order to provide technical and specialized solutions to petrotechnical engineering challenges.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Evaluates costs and estimates the production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites
Develops plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment
Directs and monitors the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, or well surveys
Analyzes data to recommend placement of wells and supplementary processes to enhance production
Monitors production rates, and plans rework processes to improve production
Interprets drilling and testing information
Specifies and supervises well modification and stimulation programs to maximize oil and gas recovery
Assists engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems
Confers with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel to resolve design, research, and testing problems
Coordinates the installation, maintenance, and operation of oil field equipment
Performs field and screening studies of existing assets and potential acquisitions, including associated economic analyses
Recommends, acquires, and analyzes the necessary test data used to define accurate reservoir characterization
Performs other duties as assigned

Job Specific Skills

Intermediate knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of the oil and gas industry
Intermediate knowledge and practical application of well performance/nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, material balance, volumetric and decline curve analyses in the evaluation are essential
Intermediate knowledge and practical application of volumetric calculations, decline curve reserve determinations, appropriate analogue techniques and material balance assessments
Intermediate knowledge and practical application of economic evaluation and reserve assessment for exploration programs, development drilling programs, work overs and production optimization opportunities
Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
Intermediate knowledge of and skills associated with reservoir simulation techniques
Intermediate knowledge of unconventional experience associated with tight gas reservoirs, CBM development, and shale gas resource work

Education

Minimum: One of the following:

Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or

Professional Engineer (PE) license, or

Master’s degree - from accredited university - Master’s of Engineering degree from a program in which the correlating Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the ABET EAC

Experience

Minimum: 2 years related work experience

Additional Qualifications

Expand Energy takes necessary action to ensure that all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the United States.

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Operations Engineer II