CSI Recruiting is working with a Fort Worth-based oil company in their need to hire an experienced Reservoir Engineering Manager. Our client is a well established E&P company, with plans to grow via drilling and development, and is actively evaluating significant bolt-on acquisitions.
This is a growth role – not a back-fill, but a newly created position supporting development planning and acquisition evaluation. Our client maintains a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. As such, the client would prefer a candidate who has worked in a similar style company, and in a similar role. The position is first and foremost a technical role, however the right candidate will contribute to strategic decisions, vendor selection, project management initiatives and work as a leader in the organization.
For the Reservoir Engineering Manager role, our client is seeking an innovative and results-driven Reservoir Engineering professional specializing in the following:
- A development-focused reservoir engineer who can implement and complete a project, and a professional who can lead the conversation.
- Able to develop, communicate and defend technical recommendations and drive projects through execution
- Substantial unconventional experience required and Permian experience strongly preferred
- Client needs this person to employ sound decision making methods to complex projects, including economic analysis.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Demonstrate ability to solve complex problems.
- Evaluate and monitor well performances
- Generate production well forecasts
- Work closely with other departments
- Must have strong knowledge of economic evaluation and financial metrics.
- Improve efficiency in data analysis
- Support reserve estimates, forecast updates and coordination with independent reserve engineers
Requirements
- Extensive exposure to unconventional resources, ideally having worked in multiple resource plays with a focus on the Permian
- Minimum education: Bachelor's Degree required - Petroleum Engineering is preferred
- Well versed in economic modelling software (ARIES, ComboCurve)
- Experience utilizing information from multiple public data sources
- A minimum of 10 years of working as a reservoir engineer for an independent E&P company focused on unconventional assets in the Lower 48 in the US