Reservoir Engineer, Subsurface

Global Edge is an international staffing firm connecting projects worldwide with the industry’s most talented project professionals. We work with high level technical and commercial personnel across multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure, Automotive and Motorsports, IT, Marine, Mining, and more. With offices strategically located worldwide, Global Edge is known for the highest level of delivery for our clients and contractors.

Position Overview

Our team is currently looking for a Subsurface Reservoir Engineer for one of our clients in the Oil and Gas industry. 

The Reservoir Engineering position supports 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.

Limited to no travel required.

Responsibilities & Essential Duties

•    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 discover volumes and contribute to appropriate documentation. 

•    Ensure subsurface products align to 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.

Qualifications (Education, Experience, & Skills)

•    Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering or related engineering discipline

•    10+ years’ experience in reservoir engineering / petroleum engineering or related experience

•    The company does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role

•    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 

•    An enthusiasm for geoscience 

Global Edge Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Global Edge Group, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.