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Apache Inc.
Production Engineer Sr - Delaware Basin
Houston
September 20, 2024
Specific Responsibilities
The Production Engineer Sr - Delaware Basin, for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Production Engineering department at the company's Houston office, reporting to the Production Engineering Sr Manager - Delaware Basin.
This role will be primarily responsible for the following:
This role will be primarily responsible for the following:
- Work directly with Production Operations, Workover Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Facilities, Land, Geoscience, and Planning to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-efficient reactive well repair and proactive optimization projects
- Identify & design optimum artificial lift method associated with new wells and/or artificial lift conversions. Ensure costs/invoices are consistent with quote or proposal.
- Develop solutions to mitigate well integrity issues taking into consideration cost and risk profile.
- Develop and evaluate cost reduction, reliability and/or debottlenecking projects.
- Work closely with vendor and ESP SME to select and execute appropriate ESP system for all applicable wells including inventory consumption.
- Develop Root Cause and mitigation recommendations associated with any failures within artificial lift systems.
- Ensure acreage is maintained via collaborating with Land and Operations teams by developing clear action plans for any critical well before leasehold is compromised.
- Work directly with Asset function members to ensure plan delivery of asset P&L (including updates & KPIs).
- Coordinate and act as focal point for all asset performance reviews.
- Identify and progress proactive/discretionary production uplift opportunities (e.g. artificial lift optimizations, recompletions, stimulations, water shut-offs, clean-outs, etc.).
- Identify and provide basis of design for new drill well artificial lift strategy and flowback procedures.
- Provide justification and authorization for all workovers, well interventions, and surveillance activities.
- Perform risk management assessments to ensure wellbore integrity on any Apache operated offset well to mitigate against frac hits or any other Sim Ops activity whether it be operated or non-operated.
- Engage partners as applicable and provide input to partner reviews.
- Production engineering support to projects as necessary (e.g. full field development including infrastructure, nodal analysis, etc.).
- Perform cost center level income reviews to ensure economic production from wells and leases.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
o Artificial lift design, installation, and troubleshooting.
o Nodal analysis (Inflow/Outflow performance).
o Secondary recovery (water flooding) and EOR.
o Facilities upgrades/modification and production takeaway limitations.
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering required, from a competitive four-year college or university, with strong academic credentials.
- 6+ years of experience working for energy companies, in production engineering and production operations.
- Must be proficient in all Microsoft applications and other E&P computer applications (i.e: Wellview, Cygnet, Spotfire, OFM, Foresite, Wellflo, Prosper, Rodstar, etc).
- High level of production engineering expertise with experience in all types of operations related to the full life cycle of oil & gas producer wells, including:
o Artificial lift design, installation, and troubleshooting.
o Nodal analysis (Inflow/Outflow performance).
o Secondary recovery (water flooding) and EOR.
o Facilities upgrades/modification and production takeaway limitations.
- Proven track record of financial performance and responsibility with experience in budget and schedule planning, AFE preparation and economic evaluation.
- Experience implementing sound decisions when faced with multi-faceted problems.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical vision, contribute to team goals, and mentor engineering talent.
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living. We are committed to providing oil and natural gas in more innovative and sustainable ways to help meet the world's energy needs.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache and other affiliated subsidiaries have operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom's North Sea and exploration opportunities offshore Suriname and elsewhere.
For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit: www.apacorp.com.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache and other affiliated subsidiaries have operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom's North Sea and exploration opportunities offshore Suriname and elsewhere.
For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit: www.apacorp.com.
Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.
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