Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Shell Exploration & Production Company (SEPCo) is responsible for safely finding, developing and producing oil and natural gas in the United States. Shell has been operating in the Gulf of Mexico for five decades and these operations provide more than 73 percent of our U.S. oil and gas production. SEPCo, which employs approximately 2,000 people in the U.S., is the largest of Shell's E&P operating units, accounting for 17 percent of Shell's worldwide oil and gas production. Based in Houston, Texas, our key operating locations are in the Gulf of Mexico, South Texas, Wyoming, Alabama, and Alaska.
Responsibilities:
In this position, you will be responsible for working on continuing development and re-development efforts in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. You will serve as a lead reservoir engineer in one of our Venture Teams. You will combine high level & rigorous fundamentals with the ability to communicate clearly at many levels of the organization. You will face the challenge of planning, working and understanding the detailed reservoir engineering aspects of the project, and then finding the appropriate level at which to frame and then communicate the key findings from that work - expectations and uncertainties, risks, downsides and upsides. Key Accountabilities: - Liaise with surveillance, geophysics, production geology and petrophysics to mature the opportunities, ensuring full integration and continuous improvement of characterization of the subsurface opportunities
- Finalize the Field Development Plans and update the work and activity planning as well data become available
- Identify, economically evaluate, justify and execute the future development activities
- Ensure that the planned work is in line with both Shell requirements and MMS (government regulatory bureau for hydrocarbon production)
- Provide assistance in value of information exercises, uncertainty assessment and scenario modeling to underpin risk / reward estimates
- Stimulate integrated work practices and promote teamwork. Support economic and technical evaluation of third party and surveillance proposals
- Utilize and further develop excellent interpersonal and communications skills to work with reservoir surveillance and production technology from RPD (Production Directorate) to chase production improvement opportunities
- Have close interaction with the Well Delivery Engineers and functional leads (discipline experts), with occasional meetings with other departments such as exploration, the special studies group, EPT (EP Projects organization) and the MMS (the US Federal Regulatory Agency which oversees offshore activities)
- Estimate reserves and generate corporate long-term production forecasts for HC liquids and gas and monitoring of plan vs. actual performance
- Provide operational reservoir engineering aspects while drilling and testing development wells
- Provide input to continuous processes such as; Reserves updates and audits, Business Planning Cycles as well as Latest Estimates
- Mentor younger reservoir engineering staff
Contribute to the discipline, both regionally and globally, by participation in local network and global events and serving as a reviewer for other projects as needed
Requirements:
To be considered for this position, you must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and have approximately 15 or more years of experience in the upstream E&P industry as a practicing reservoir engineer. Most of that experience should be in deepwater development, but with some exposure to the E&P life cycle – exploration, development and surveillance. You should be able to quickly bring to bear the province-specific knowledge and perspective the industry has gained over the past decades, and then add Shell’s own practices and knowledge. At the same, you will need to have the fundamental knowledge and ability to translate that experience to new technology and subsurface challenges. You should bring a pragmatic, target-oriented approach whilst not sacrificing structured analyses and technical quality. Coaching skills of a multi-skilled and multi-discipline team are also required, especially in cross-functional aspects. Additional Requirements: - Project coordination and evaluation skills
- Ability to construct, history match simulation models, and perform prediction runs
- Ability to perform reservoir analysis with analytical methods
- Ability analyze Fluid properties and well tests
- Ability to identify and manage key subsurface uncertainties
- Strong HC reserves estimate and forecasting knowledge
- Strong production geology, geophysics, and seismology knowledge
In addition to the tasks outlined in this job description, you may be assigned other responsibilities as needed. The Shell Group of companies offers an outstanding benefits package. In order to be considered for this position, you must complete an online candidate profile. No phone inquiries will be accepted. Shell Companies in the U.S. are equal opportunity employers.
Application Deadline: Thursday 26 July 2007
Number of Vacancies: 1
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