Airswift has been tasked by one of our major Oil and Gas clients to seek a Reservoir Engineer III/IV to work on an initial 12-month contract in Houston, TX - possibly to be extended!

Job title Reservoir Engineer
Job Category Subsurface, Reservoir Engineer, Level III/IV
Grade Level Contingent Worker
Location Houston (no relocation).
Hybrid working

Role synopsis

The Reservoir Engineering position supports the companies' deepwater assets & acreage in the western hemisphere. This is a high-profile position which requires an applicant who shows initiative, can influence, communicate effectively, and uses sound technical judgment. Work will entail cooperatively working projects in conjunction with other engineering disciplines, geoscientists, and finance.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide sound Reservoir Engineering technical analysis, judgement, and guidance to support identification, evaluation and progression of value-generating resources and exploration/appraisal opportunities.
• Generate development plan scenarios and concept screening to ensure an economic and viable development concept for project progression.
• Support and/or lead the analysis and application of the Discovered Resource Management guidelines to discovered volumes and contribute to appropriate documentation.
• Ensure subsurface products align to the companies' technical expectations for sanction decision quality of development.
• Describe subsurface uncertainties and defining work products needed to sufficiently explore those uncertainties.
• Build appropriate models to describe and test a range of sensitivities. These models may be classical and/or numerical, depending on scope and available data and analogs.
• Working with integrated production and/or exploration teams
• Support well planning process for upcoming exploration, appraisal and development wells, as well as analysis, interpretation and integration of data acquired from the E&A wells.

Essential Education & Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering or related engineering discipline
• 10+ years' experience in reservoir engineering / petroleum engineering or related experience

Desirable criteria & qualifications
• Direct hands-on experience with analytical / numerical RE toolkit (PETEX IPM, Nexus, Pressure Transient Analysis, Decline Curve Analysis) and other reservoir engineering toolkits to assess risk and uncertainty management.
• Experience in classical reservoir engineering, reservoir management, and field development planning.
• If possible, experience in well and project planning processes, including drilling operations, well evaluations and facility options.
• Experience in Deepwater Exploration, Appraisal, and Field Development
• Experience in subsurface project evaluation and value of information analysis.
• Developing level of data science and analytics skills