Production Engineering Consultant

Production Engineering Consultant Location Houston, TX (Uptown area) : Overview: Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition. Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team. When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger - a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford. Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Responsibilities:

Job Scope:

A Production Engineer actively performs standard production engineering operations, to include providing evaluation of production history under natural and artificial lift constrained to surface network operations, to deliver Production Optimization solutions for clients. Acting as a key technical contributor, the Production Engineer helps to identify potential issues or favorable conditions in order to optimize economic recovery from a well. Strong people skills, communication and presentation skills are critical for success in this role. The engineer should be able to perform tasks assigned with minimal supervision and under the guidance of assigned Technical Lead. He should be able to comprehend and explain the inputs such as data & assumptions, workflow, results & recommendations with client and the implications/impact of these on operations.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform production analysis, and optimize production under surface and reservoir constraints with minimal supervision.
• Perform material balance calculations, pressure transient analysis, and production analysis.
• Build IPR based on well productivity, determine operating point base on tubing performance curve
• Generate model inputs necessary for reservoir simulation such as VLP curve, surface or bottomhole pressure constraints
• Perform nodal analysis, tubing lift calculations, tubing lift evaluation without supervision.
• Design, analyse and optimize artificial lift systems including but not limited to gas lift, ESP, rod lift, jet pump etc.
• Identify production issues caused by near wellbore issues e.g. skin or permeability degradation, sand production, wellbore issues e.g. liquid loading, hydrates, paraffin, asphaltenes and recommend solutions to assure optimal flow.
• Build black oil, extended black oil, compositional, EOR and thermal models for well and surface network.
• Perform routine QA/QC on all production and completion data relevant to building production models.
• Evaluate surface production facilities impact on short-term, mid-term and long-term field performance by:
• Building surface network models incorporating wells, pipelines, pumps, separators and delivery nodes
• Define forecast scenarios incorporating reservoir deliverability constraints, flow capacity, processing capacity and economic constraints.
• Perform surface network optimization under production constraints, delivery requirements, lift gas availability, injection water availability or produced liquid handling.
• Identify bottlenecks and flow issues impacting performance
• Perform reliability and failure analysis of well and surface network under supervision to establish root cause analysis of failure and suggest mitigation techniques for future operations
• Understand Field Services Management protocols to create, modify, monitor, close activities. Generate and Q/C post jobs reports.
• Perform material balance (MB), pressure transient analysis (PTA) and rate transient analysis (RTA) studies under supervision
• Understand DOF concepts and apply under supervision to:
• Configure and trouble shoot a SCADA system incorporating RTU's, gauges
• Understand configuration requirements and communication protocols necessary to acquire data from field
• Understand data flow between SCADA and production optimization platform to monitor real time production operations
• Perform flow assurance studies under supervision
• Perform risk and economic analysis, under supervision.
• Demonstrate basic awareness of additional relevant technical domains, such as: Geology, Petrophysics, Geophysics and Production Engineering; and the integration of results with other technology, such as: Drilling, Logging.
• Perform qualitative interpretation of petrophysical inputs and reservoir properties.
• Provide production, pressure, lift characteristics data necessary for history match
• Evaluate output from reservoir simulation for history match, conformance of forecast constraint to field conditions
• Make decisions within established guidelines, seeking advice of senior team members on new or unfamiliar challenges or situations falling outside of normal procedures.
• Work independently or as part of a team on assigned projects as instructed, complying with verbal and written instructions and procedures.
• Provide technical guidance to junior professionals or technicians.
• Produce technical reports and presentations under supervision.
• Meet regularly with clients, either accompanied by senior team members or sales staff, or independently
• Participate in training and development through classroom courses, eLearning, and on-the-job projects with senior team members.
• Maintain membership of relevant professional societies. Participate in presentations to local technical societies and remain current on industry regulations and developments.
• Complete all mandatory training as assigned, including the required HSE training, in compliance with corporate and business unit guidelines.
• Maintain an acceptable HSE record.
• Know and understand Weatherford Quality Policy and comply with all requirements of the Quality Systems Manual, Operating and Technical Procedures and Workplace Instructions.
• Must understand and comply with all safety rules and company policies of Weatherford.
• Work assignments carried out to the highest quality level.
• Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor within the physical constraints of the job.

Qualifications:

Skills & Knowledge:

Essential:

• Computer Literacy in MS Windows plus basic desktop applications
• Able to work independent with remote and infrequent supervision
• Able to lead small teams of professional and technical members
• Proficiency in industry leading Production Engineering Software
• Familiar with emerging concepts in the energy transitions industry, particularly focused on advancement of geothermal energy production and carbon capture & sequestration

Preferred:

• Work in Multi-disciplinary team to define objectives and operational guidelines for defining a cross domains solution
• Functional knowledge of all Weatherford standard software programs required for the specific technical domains
• Assist project managers by fulfilling task requirements assigned to for a successful delivery of solution as specified in statement of work or scope.
• Experience evaluating performance of wells under natural flow and artificial lift
• Experience with industry standard software's such as iDO, Wellflo, PanSystem, ReO , , Gas lift design, ESP design, Rod Pump design.
• Relevant consulting experience in optimizing geothermal wells, and/or evaluating carbon sequestration asset.

Minimum Qualifications:

Essential:

• Bachelor/Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering/ relevant engineering from a recognized university
• Minimum 3 functional experience post MS/PHD. Add 5 years with BS only.
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Preferred:

• Consulting experience related to design, implementation or monitoring of a digital oil field solution
• Field experience in production operations