Senior Drilling Engineer

Longfellow Energy, LP is a privately owned oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on onshore U.S. basins that are underdeveloped or overlooked. Founded in 2006 by Malone Mitchell, 3rd, the company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Longfellow Energy operates as a small, family-oriented, and highly driven organization with a strong capital structure supporting growth and new projects. Financial and accounting management is provided by Riata Corporate Group, LLC, enabling the team to focus on technical excellence and operational performance.

Team members can expect a dynamic, agile environment with the opportunity to directly impact on the company’s exploration and development activities.

The Drilling Engineer is primarily responsible for providing drilling engineering and operational support for the Company’s drilling programs, planning and delivering detailed drilling projects, as assigned. The Company’s assets are combination of conventional and unconventional resource play projects. The ideal candidate should have comprehensive knowledge of horizontal drilling design and operations.

• - Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering or other engineering discipline
• - 8-15+ years of hands-on drilling engineering and operations experience, with prior horizontal, field development and exploration drilling project work
• - Must have horizontal drilling experience, ideally in the Permian Basin
• - Experience with extended lateral drilling, rotary steerable and other extended reach technologies is a plus
• - Strong working knowledge of drilling hazards and mitigation
• - Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.); proficiency in related software required

• - Developing scope, well designs and cost estimates during the early stages of a project
• - Preparing final well designs and drilling programs for exploration, delineation and development wells, including but not limited to rig selection criteria, casing and drill string designs, mud and cement programs, wellbore evaluation programs, well control procedures, etc.
• - Working closely with Geoscientists, Completion Engineers, Production Operations, Regulatory Analysts, Reservoir Engineers
• - Monitoring real- time and post- well costs; verifying and approving wells
• - Keeping senior management informed of all progress and incidents; consulting on higher risk problems and projects
• - Liaising with Drilling Superintendents on program preparation, execution and performance analysis, trouble-shooting and forward planning
• - Maintaining strong working relationships with on-site Supervisors, contractors and service providers
• - Designing wells in support of a field development
• - Preparing cost estimates and assessing risk
• - Reporting and optimizing operations
• - Applying technology and innovation in directional drilling, mud systems, casing and drill string design, and completions
• - Managing the logistics and reporting of operations

Position is based in University Park, Texas; frequent travel required, often in small private aircraft.