Water Flood Engineer (Houston, TX)

Murex Petroleum Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Murex Petroleum Corporation in Houston, TX seeks a Waterflood Reservoir Engineer to lead the design, implementation and surveillance of waterflood projects. You will work in a small team handling all reservoir engineering aspects to maximize recoverable reserves, rate of return, and NPV for existing and new waterfloods.

Responsibilities include building base and net pay maps, evaluating injection strategies, performing PVT tests and unitization support, and testifying before regulatory bodies as

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of reservoir engineering experience with 3–5+ years in waterfloods.
• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering.
• Experience with economic programs for waterflood projects.
• Experience with Petra for mapping and cross sections.
• Experience with waterflood recovery analytical prediction methods.
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining a successful economic waterflood.

Responsibilities

• Create base maps, structure maps, net pay maps, HCPV maps, and cross sections.
• Construct and update wellbore diagrams and histories.
• Determine optimum injection well placement and pattern.
• Predicted injection rates vs. time per well.
• Calculate ultimate primary and projected secondary recovery and timing.
• Testify at regulatory hearings as needed.
• Monitor monthly production and injection well performance.
• Handle unitization partner meetings.

Skills

Reservoir engineering

Waterfloods

Petroleum economics

Petrophysical analysis

Pressure transient analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering

Tools

PowerTools

Petra

Job description

Waterflood Reservoir Engineer (Houston, Texas)

Job Description:

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementation of new waterfloods along with surveillance of existing Murex Operated waterfloods in the Williston Basin. As an active contributing member of a small team, this Engineer will be responsible for all reservoir engineering aspects to increase the Recoverable Reserves, Rate of Return, & Net Present Value of existing & all new waterfloods. The scope of work from this role ranges from pre-flood recovery and economic screening to conducting unitization meetings to testifying before the North Dakota Industrial Commission for unitization approval to implementation & surveillance of all Murex Operated waterfloods.

Qualifications:

• 5 – 10 year Reservoir Engineering experience with 3 – 5+ years of waterflood experience
• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering
• Experience with all phases – both technical and non-technical needed to implement a waterflood
• Experience with economic programs – perferably PowerTools
• Experience Petra for mapping and cross sections
• Experience with waterflood recovery analytical prediction methods
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining a successful economic waterflood
• Experience with petrophysical analyses, special core tests, compatibility tests andFluid property evaluations
• Experience Maximizing Areal and Vertical Sweet Efficiencies along withOptimizing the Displacement Efficiency
• Experience with Pressure Transient analyses- including drawdowns, buildsups andInterference testing
• Experience with tracers
• Experience with Step Rate Tests, Injection Profile Tests, & Hall Plots

Duties Include:

• Create base maps, structure maps, net pay maps, HCPV maps, and cross section
• Construct and update wellbore diagrams along with well history
• Determine optimum injection well placement / pattern, interval for injection, and
• Predicted injection rates vs. time per well
• Calculate ultimate primary recovery and the projected secondary recovery and timing
• For evaluation of the economics
• Handle unitization partner meetings
• Testify at the North Dakota Industiral Commission on hearings necessary for the approval of each waterflood unit
• Perform all necessary compatibility tests
• Design and perform annual step rate tests on each injector
• Perform annual Injection Profile tests for each injector
• Monitor monthly each individual production & injection well performance
• Monitor monthly Pattern Balancing, Water Cut Maps, etc
• Handle any other Reservoir Engineering assignments needed

An Equal Opportunity Employer