Sr. Engineering Technician (some international travel)

Description

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Summary:

Provide technical assistance to the Reservoir Engineering division in managing the company's shale gas JV operations

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Create, update and maintain corporate reserve and economic databases, including well and production data
• Give support to JV Managers/Banks/Auditors and their reserve and cash flow requirements and requests
• Database administrator for historical reserve databases, including reserve reporting and cash flows and reserves reconciliation
• Support engineering staff in Mumbai with database and ARIES support; provide training to staff as necessary
• Retrieve, import and manage JV well exploration, well and production data in corporate reserve database
• Coordinate with JV partners to update critical economic and production data, including LOE and taxes
• Generate up to date cash flow reports, graphs and spreadsheets utilizing the reservoir well exploration and production data
• Conduct research and preliminary analysis to support reservoir modeling and evaluation
• Coordinate internal and external (i.e. with JV partners) engineering meetings, conferences, and teleconferences, as assigned
• Gather, interpret, and prepare data for studies, reports, and recommendations using MS Access, Spotfire and ARIES
• Create, manage and generate reserve reports as needed for industry reserve databases
• Assist in generating, reviewing and tracking AFEs, production forecast summaries and budgets for the JV operations
• Assist reservoir engineers in loading and creating databases for various engineering software
• Identify, track and create databases as needed to monitor industry activity
• Manage the transfer of databases and required information with outside auditors for reserve evaluations
• Maintain and protect corporate and employee assets, including intellectual property
• Assist in building working relationships and managing communication with the company's international technical team
• Manage and update the corporate reserve database hierarchy for quarterly and year end reserve reporting
• Provide support as required in building the reservoir engineering capabilities, including inherent systems and processes

Requirements

• Experience in working with oil gas production and accounting systems (ARIES experience must)
• Experience in year-end reserve reporting and management of data with outside auditors
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Maths/Physics or related field preferred, Petroleum Engineering optimal
• 10+ years of oil/gas industry experience, some international travel likely
• Working knowledge of reservoir analysis, economic evaluation and management tools, including production/exploitation databases
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Access) and industry databases
• Previous reservoir engineering technician experience with shale gas a big plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to build relationships internally and externally
• Excellent administrative and organization skills with ability to integrate data from different sources
• Self-motivated, results oriented, can drive project to completion within tight deadlines

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