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Sr. Reservoir Engineer
Employer:
BHPBilliton
Updated: Feb 9 2010
Desired Expertise: Reservoir Engineering
Experience: 7+ years
Minimum Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree
Location: Houston, TX, US
Reference Code: 606513
Job Status: Closed - No longer accepting applications
Job Description:
Job Number: 606513

Position Title: Sr. Reservoir Engineer

Opening date: 16 Dec 2009 2:00am

Closing date: 10 Mar 2010 10:00am

Job Description:

BHP Billiton is all about smart technology, innovation and great talent. If you want a challenging career and a chance to explore resource opportunities as well as your ambitions, we're the company for you. Think ahead. Think BHP Billiton.

PURPOSE

Specific accountabilities are to:

  • Effectively provide reservoir engineering evaluations of worldwide Exploration Division opportunities.
  • Integrate all functional inputs into a fit-for-purpose evaluation (e.g., drilling, marketing, commercial, etc).
  • Communicate results, including uncertainties and ranges, to PDE and higher management.  Where appropriate, clearly recommend a course of action.
  • Assist with well and DST planning and operations
  • Leverage specialty skills across all Petroleum Division opportunities
  • Share knowledge and learnings with Pre-Development Evaluation and the general reservoir engineering community

ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Perform excellent technical work and maintain specific technical skills in one or more of the following disciplines: classic reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, integrated production modelling, production forecasting.
  • Proactively identify uncertainties and risks in conceptual field development scenarios and identify solutions to effectively resolve them.
  • Effectively evaluate prospects in new ventures, exploration, and appraisal stages using fit-for-purpose methodologies and analogue data.
  • Develop production forecasts for prospects in the exploration and appraisal stage using analytical and numerical methods.
  • Provide ranges in recovery factors and production profiles that account for all subsurface uncertainties using fit-for purpose methodologies.
  • Develop feasible field development concepts as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Work closely with an integrated PDE team to develop understanding of reservoirs and development risks.
  • Identify recovery efficiencies due to water injection, artificial lift, active well management, and reservoir management and include these recovery efficiencies in production forecasts.
  • Manage PVT, SCAL and MDT data studies and flow assurance studies and incorporate data in reservoir assessments.
  • Effectively present evaluation results to the team, in peer reviews, joint partner meetings and workshops.
  • Adhere to HSEC policy and management standards, and exercise BHPB's safe work policies
  • Transfer knowledge and learnings to other Reservoir Engineers in PDE and the Petroleum reservoir engineering community.
  • Constructively participate on occasion in Peer Reviews and Assists of Exploration, Development, and Production projects.
  • Participate in Well Planning Teams and proactively assist with developing formation evaluation programs, providing support during drilling and FE operations and post-well analysis of FE data.

BEHAVIORAL & LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

  • Proactive team player and efficient communicator.
  • Self-starter and able to work independently and in small teams.

Leadership Model:

  • Vision
  • 360 degree Credibility & Integrity
  • Action Orientation
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Feedback and Recognition
  • Accountability
  • Judgement

EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum of 7-15 years with experience in the upstream oil and gas industry
  • Experience in opportunity identification and evaluation
  • Good knowledge of all reservoir engineering basics
  • Strong analytical and mathematical skills
  • User of reservoir simulation (preferred but not required) and other methods for modelling reservoir production dynamics
  • Working knowledge of detailed pipeline network models and advanced well test analysis methods in project work
  • Applicable knowledge of geoscience and production engineering
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and interact across technical disciplines
  • English language preferred

QUALIFICATION

  • Tertiary university degree level in engineering

This Position Is Closed to New Applicants

This position is no longer open for new applications. Either the position has expired or was removed because it was filled. However, there are thousands of other great jobs to be found on Rigzone.

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