Posted: 6 Nov 2009
Location: Australia
Woodside Petroleum Ltd, the parent company of Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. is Australia's largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company and one of the world's leading producers of liquefied natural gas. At Woodside, we offer existing and potential employees exciting career opportunities at many locations around the world.
Our dynamic and challenging work environment extends from our world-class Australian LNG operations, to major oil producing facilities in the United States, international exploration, development and construction projects. In the United States, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. is principally focused on deep water Gulf of Mexico exploration and production and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
At Woodside we are committed to enhancing our people's capability and our high performance culture. We want people to respond to our business challenges and achieve our business goals. We encourage innovation and success and reward good performance.
We believe that through diversity we develop our best ideas. It is through our people that we will deliver growth and value for our shareholders. Below is the description of one of our rewarding job openings at Woodside Energy (USA) Inc.
Job Title: Senior Reservoir Engineer (Reservoir Modeling)
Job Location: WUSA Headquarters in Houston, Texas
Group: Gulf of Mexico Engineering and Operations
Want to be on the forefront of your discipline?
Our desire is to further build the modeling expertise within our US Business Unit and utilize this expertise in future development opportunities. The Reservoir Engineer incumbent will have the opportunity to offer advice on the application of this expertise going forward.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be the principal Reservoir Engineer responsible for advanced reservoir modeling on our core producing assets within the US Business Unit. With our ongoing active deepwater exploration program this position will also be critical in our new field appraisal and development efforts as we commercialize new discoveries. The role also has the potential to provide additional engineering support to our exploration efforts within the Houston Office. In addition to dynamic modeling efforts this challenging position offers the candidate the opportunity to apply classical reservoir engineering skills and approaches on our complex and challenging deepwater fields and opportunities. Modeling efforts will be on both operated assets as well as non-operated fields and will require significant interaction with partners requiring proactive communications. Sharing of modeling knowledge and learning from others is critical to our success in these efforts going forward.
The successful candidate will work with our exceptional Geologist and Geophysicist staff to create static geologic model(s) of our assets. From these static models, the candidate will create a robust working Reservoir Simulation models for use in history matching field production, determining reservoir characterization and conducting predictive future development plans and production profiles which will be utilized for our investment decisions and Business Planning Process.
Qualifications Required
• 5+ years experience as a Reservoir Engineer.
• Exceptionally strong working knowledge of both static and dynamic reservoir modeling (Static modeling with Petrel (or SKUA), and Dynamic modeling with Eclipse).
• Strong classical Reservoir Engineering skills and proven technical track record of accomplishments.
• Strong team working skills.
• Demonstrated proactive approach to managing responsibilities.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills with the desire and ability to be an active member of the Engineering and Operations Team.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
Qualifications Preferred
• 10+ years with a major or independent oil & gas exploration & production company as a Reservoir Engineer.
• Direct experience in building and managing dynamic reservoir models within Eclipse.
• BS degree in Petroleum Engineering or related Engineering degree Other Information Position will be eligible to participate in a robust compensation and benefits package including incentive program(s).
Job
: Reservoir Engineering
Primary Location
: US-Houston
Schedule
: Full-time
Job Posting
: 29/10/09
Closing Date (Period for Applying) - External
: 02/12/09
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