Houston-Based Executive Strategy & Planning Analyst

Apex Natural Gas, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Natural Gas, LLC is seeking a Reservoir Engineering Analyst in Houston to support strategic planning, economics testing, and executive decision-making. You will lead ARIES-based analyses and build scalable models across reservoir engineering, marketing, finance, and operations.

Reporting to the CEO, you will translate complex data into clear recommendations, drive scenario evaluation, and leverage AI tools to speed insights while ensuring accuracy and control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering or related field.
• 3 years of upstream E&P experience, including reservoir engineering responsibilities.
• Hands-on proficiency with ARIES and upstream economic evaluation, plus experience with reserves, production forecasting, development planning, and well economics.
• Advanced Excel and financial or economic modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of how production, marketing, midstream, reserves, and finance connect.
• Experience using, evaluating, or learning AI-enabled analytical tools (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Conduct focused strategic, technical, commercial, and economic analyses at the CEO's direction
• Build, maintain, audit, and improve corporate economics, forecasting, and planning models, including hands-on work in ARIES
• Partner across Reservoir Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Midstream, and Operations to reconcile data and develop integrated answers
• Test assumptions, investigate variances, and trace results back to reliable source data
• Support development planning, production and reserves analysis, capital allocation, and scenario evaluation
• Turn complex technical and commercial information into concise recommendations and executive presentations
• Use AI-enabled tools to accelerate research, analysis, and model review while independently validating outputs
• Take on ad hoc analyses and special projects as priorities evolve

Skills

ARIES proficiency

Advanced Excel

Economic modeling

AI tools experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering or related field

Tools

ARIES

Job description

Apex Natural Gas, LLC is seeking a Reservoir Engineering Analyst in Houston to support strategic planning, economics testing, and executive decision-making. You will lead ARIES-based analyses and build scalable models across reservoir engineering, marketing, finance, and operations.

Reporting to the CEO, you will translate complex data into clear recommendations, drive scenario evaluation, and leverage AI tools to speed insights while ensuring accuracy and control.