Production Operations Engineer

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Occidental strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment, and positively impacting our communities where we do business. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Production Operations Engineer within our Permian EOR Business Area East group located in Houston, Texas.

Responsibilities & Expectations:

• Manage capital programs including tracking of drilling, completions and new technologies on existing wells from planning to execution and post-audit of performance
• Evaluate and making decisions on optimization of artificial lift and change out of equipment
• Accountable for knowledge and compliance with all applicable regulations and company HES training requirements and policies
• Design, preparation and implementation of new well completions and stimulations, including both acid and hydraulic fracture treatments
• Identifying incremental capital/expense workover opportunities, preparing AFE’s, and providing economic analysis and justification for proposed projects
• Display an understanding of formation damage, identification and remediation
• History of performing job post audits to monitor capital spending efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering or related field required
• Minimum of 4 years of oil and gas industry experience including waterflooding and/or CO2 flooding
• Proficiency in production engineering best practices, including artificial lift, well interventions, workovers/recompletions, well surveillance, and field operations
• Ability to interact and work effectively with cross-functional teams and working interest partners.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including presentations
• Knowledge of OFM or DSS to perform base reservoir surveillance and estimate well performance potential
• Experience in performing rig site supervision is a plus
• Knows how to use PEEP to run project economics
• Knowledge of oilfield chemistry as it relates to corrosion scale and paraffin deposition
• Understands how to use enhanced oil recovery as a % of original oil in place versus CO2 injected as a % of hydrocarbon pore volume plots to optimize water and gas (WAG) injection schemes for individual WAG injectors

Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation

Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role

Occidental is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, political preference, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status