Senior Reservoir Engineer

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities for the position of Sr. Reservoir Engineer at Talos Energy include but are not limited to:

• Create and maintain field development plans for assigned assets.
• Identify rate-add opportunities through recompletions, workovers, and rate optimization.
• Monitor asset performance, identify trends, and provide production engineering support to monitor and optimize well performance.
• Support the G&G staff efforts in the evaluation of exploration prospects through probabilistic evaluations. Support includes estimating rock and fluid properties, expected recovery efficiencies and performing economic evaluations. 
• Support corporate development modeling efforts by creating production forecasts and documenting reserve estimates.
• Facilitate approval of opportunities by coordinating the collection of AFE support data, including reserves, production forecasts, costs and economics.
• Analyze recently drilled and completed wells once on production to understand completion effectiveness and reserves assessment.
• Support other disciplines within the corporation with ad hoc requests and projects.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 7 years of reservoir engineering and project management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering or related engineering field
• Strong preference for conventional deepwater experience

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• Proficient in reservoir engineering skills including: volumetric analysis, material balance analysis, nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, and decline curve analysis. Engineer should also have basic open and cased hole logging analysis experience.
• Proficient in economic evaluations of drilling, recompletion, and facility projects.
• Proven ability to identify and quantify production and reserve upside in mature assets via detailed field studies.
• Project management skills enabling the leadership of a multidisciplinary team from idea creation through project final investment decision.
• Ability to effectively communicate opportunities with peers and senior management.
• Able to organize and prioritize a diverse and heavy workload.
• Have a strong sense of integrity and the ability to deal with ethical situations effectively.

CERTIFICATES & LICENSES:

• There are no certificates, licenses or registrations required for this position

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Employee must be able to sit for extended periods of time and have use of arms and hands in repetitive motion. A fair amount of standing and walking is also required for the position.