Senior Completions Engineer

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bpx energy, a major oil and gas producer in the United States, leverages its expertise in unconventional gas, including shale, to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana, our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions.

As part of BP, a global industry leader, we foster a high-energy, high-intensity environment built on accountability, collegiality, innovation, and empowerment. At bpx, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where collaboration, continuous improvement, and inclusion are valued.

Discover your place with us and help our business meet the challenges of reimagining and reinventing the future of energy.

The candidate will work with engineering and support teams as well as the field organization to deliver a broad range of activities including fracture stimulation, completions design, and artificial lift. The position is responsible for optimizing our completion activities. This challenging workload will require an experienced individual to keep up with pace of activity.

• Work with asset and support teams to optimize and improve current completion designs, methods, learnings, and technology
• Deliver timely and accurate assigned completions procedures that are in conformation to applicable policies, standards and processes and in compliance with regulations
• Deliver activity set and performance plan while demonstrating continuous improvement in assigned Completions
• Help aid in wellbore designs and frac modeling
• Help aid the asset teams in BP’s environmental aims, particularly low carbon completion technology and produced water recycling
• Facilitate learning’s from Post Well Reviews, AAR, End of Well Reviews with input from Wells Operations, Production Engineering, and/or BU Area Managers
• Support Wells Operations, and PSCM in supplier performance management
• Manage the cost cycle through SoR, AFE, execution, supplements, and invoice resolution
• Foster relationships across multi-functional teams including Drilling & Completions Engineering sub-disciplines, Wells Operations, Base Management, Reservoir Management, and PSCM to deliver Value by being both Safe and Competitive
• Cooperatively work within a team of completion engineers to share lessons learned and to implement across all areas.
• Foster personal development by making regular field visits for execution of assigned well programs
• Support supervisor in the decision-making process, planning, and forecasting
• Evaluate competitor and partner performance and present analysis to cross-functional teams
• Operate within the framework of OMS and BPX Practices
• Provide operational and engineering technical support to onsite WSLs and participation in operations calls

• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in completion or well intervention engineering
• Extensive operational planning and execution experience with coil tubing, workover, and wireline for unconventional onshore wellbores
• Skilled in analyzing unconventional well performance utilizing reservoir transient analysis and production optimization through casing and well design
• Broad understanding of artificial lift designs and limitations
• Ability to work with multiple external teams and accomplish shared goals through the building consensus.
• Enthusiastic, high-energy individual, self-motivated, people-oriented and self-directed
• Must be able to maintain focus on achieving results, whilst being patient and pragmatic.

• Supervision, management or leadership position experience desirable.
• Fosters an environment of safety-first operations
• Demonstrates ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in fast paced environment
• Possesses the grit necessary to tackle any challenge and a growth mindset to improve operations, designs, and process under a high workload
• Proactively seeks opportunities to…