Senior Drilling Engineer - Horizontal & Unconventional Plays

Longfellow Energy, LP; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Longfellow Energy, LP is seeking a Drilling Engineer to provide drilling engineering and operational support for our drilling programs. You will develop scope, well designs, and cost estimates, and prepare drilling programs for exploration and development wells, including rig selection, casing, mud and cement programs, and safety procedures.

The role requires strong knowledge of horizontal drilling, extended reach technologies, and drilling hazards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 8-15+ years of hands-on drilling engineering and operations experience, with prior horizontal, field development and exploration drilling project work.
• Must have horizontal drilling experience, ideally in the Permian Basin.
• Experience with extended lateral drilling, rotary steerable and other extended reach technologies is a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of drilling hazards and mitigation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.); proficiency in related software required.

Responsibilities

• Developing scope, well designs and cost estimates during the early stages of a project.
• Preparing final well designs and drilling programs for exploration, delineation and development wells, including rig selection criteria, casing and drill string designs, mud and cement programs, wellbore evaluation programs, well control procedures, etc.
• Working closely with Geoscientists, Completion Engineers, Production Operations, Regulatory Analysts, Reservoir Engineers.
• Monitoring real-time and post-well costs; verifying and approving wells.
• Keeping senior management informed of all progress and incidents; consulting on higher risk problems and projects.
• Liaising with Drilling Superintendents on program preparation, execution and performance analysis, trouble-shooting and forward planning.
• Maintaining strong working relationships with on-site Supervisors, contractors and service providers.
• Designing wells in support of a field development.
• Preparing cost estimates and assessing risk.
• Reporting and optimizing operations.
• Applying technology and innovation in directional drilling, mud systems, casing and drill string design, and completions.
• Managing the logistics and reporting of operations.

Skills

Horizontal drilling

Drilling engineering

Project planning

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering or other engineering discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Job description

Longfellow Energy, LP is seeking a Drilling Engineer to provide drilling engineering and operational support for our drilling programs. You will develop scope, well designs, and cost estimates, and prepare drilling programs for exploration and development wells, including rig selection, casing, mud and cement programs, and safety procedures.

The role requires strong knowledge of horizontal drilling, extended reach technologies, and drilling hazards.