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Murex Petroleum Corporation lists this Water Flood Engineer (Houston, TX) opportunity in houston, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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
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Worksite address
houston, TX, 77246, US
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