Statoil is an international energy company with operations in 36 countries. Building on 40 years of experience from oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf, we are committed to accommodating the world's energy needs in a responsible manner, applying technology and creating innovative business solutions. We are headquartered in Norway with 21,000 employees worldwide, and are listed on the New York and Oslo stock exchanges. In just a few years Statoil has positioned itself as one of the largest lease holders in deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Our GoM portfolio is managed out of our Houston office. The Statoil Houston office, which was established in 2002, also manages our Alaska, Marcellus, Eagle Ford and Bakken shale gas portfolios. To date Statoil has invested more than USD $11 billion in US upstream activities, and currently produces more than 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. We have US offices located in Anchorage, Austin, Houston, Stamford and Washington D.C. USA, and are looking for talented people to contribute to our growing activity base.
Development and Production North America (DPNA) aims to develop a material and profitable position in North America, including deepwater Gulf of Mexico, unconventional gas and oil sands. In doing this, we will establish capability centres for deepwater and unconventional gas operations as well as carbon efficient oil sands extraction. This will ensure our further development in the area.

Job description

  • This position requires a Production Engineer to build and maintain both well performance and network models so as to achieve optimal flow rates under a variety of operating conditions. Working primarily in the subsurface group, but also regularly interacting with the operations group, the production engineer needs be adept at planning longer term needs but also focused on operational matters when required
  • The ultimate objective of the production engineer, in collaboration with the G&G, reservoir and completions functions, includes but is not limited to: identifying optimization candidates; recommend artificial lift candidates; recommending and providing artificial lift type and design parameters (six months ahead of need); determining well and pipeline network set points; clearly communicate such recommendations with field operations so as to maximize production under a variety of operating scenarios. The ability to help determine Artificial Lift Strategies is desired
  • One of the identified challenges in the Eagle Ford is the varying PVT properties across the field which effects well behaviour remarkably over short distances. The wells may need to be operated within the constraints set by reservoir engineers and/or facilities to ensure liquid rates are optimized and cash flows maximized

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Masters strongly preferred
  • 10+ years experience with US onshore operations
  • Strong production analysis background with experience in shales preferred
  • A proven background of improving well performance Strong technical understanding of how well design, artificial lift and surface process facilities impact production and the skill sto models such networks to improve optimisation potetnial
  • Experience with Artificial Lift practices, especially Gas Lift, Plunger Lift and Rod Pumps
  • A sound understanding as to what Artificial Lift systems operate optimally under a variety of production scenrios, and the ability to provide design paramters for detailed design and procurement
  • Clear understanding of completion practices and their impact on well performance
  • Software skills in nodal analysis and network models are essential
  • Other software skills such as OFM are a bonus
  • Clear understanding of data acquisition requirements so as to improve production optimization process

Education

  • Bachelors Degree

Personal qualities

  • Creative, technically strong and the ability to work with a diverse team of geoscientists, reservoir and operations engineers
  • Desire to make a difference on potentially large impact opportunities
  • The ability to influence, direct and take control to ensure that actions are undertaken quickly and correctly
  • Excellent communication skills, with the requirement to explain clearly what is required to maximize production to a variety of oilfield personnel functions
  • The ability to multitask, switching from theoretical modeling of current and future networks to addressing current field operations at short notice
  • Strong presentation skills to an audience comprised of engineers, field operations and management
  • Able to adhere to and contribute to development of best practices
  • Commitment to Statoil ethics and HSE standards

We offer

Statoil offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package. Statoil is an equal opportunity employer.

General information

Our values are to be courageous, open, hands-on and caring. We believe in these qualities, which are essential for building an even stronger Statoil. If you can identify with them, you could be the one to strengthen our team.
Candidates are expected to openly offer all relevant information about themselves during the recruitment process.