Water Flood Engineer; Houston, TX
Listed on 2026-10-14
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Engineering
Environmental Engineer, Water Engineer
Water flood Reservoir Engineer (Houston, Texas)
Job Description:
The successful candidate will be responsible for implementation of new water floods along with surveillance of existing Murex Operated water floods in the Williston Basin. As an active contributing member of a small team, this Engineer will be responsible for all reservoir engineering aspects to increase the Recoverable Reserves, Rate of Return, & Net Present Value of existing & all new water floods. The scope of work from this role ranges from pre-flood recovery and economic screening to conducting unitization meetings to testifying before the North Dakota Industrial Commission for unitization approval to implementation & surveillance of all Murex Operated water floods.
Qualifications:- 5 – 10 year Reservoir Engineering experience with 3 – 5+ years of water flood experience
- Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering
- Experience with all phases – both technical and non-technical needed to implement a water flood
- Experience with economic programs – perferably Power Tools
- Experience Petra for mapping and cross sections
- Experience with water flood recovery analytical prediction methods
- Proven track record of implementing and maintaining a successful economic water flood
- Experience with petrophysical analyses, special core tests, compatibility tests and Fluid property evaluations
- Experience Maximizing Areal and Vertical Sweet Efficiencies along with Optimizing the Displacement Efficiency
- Experience with Pressure Transient analyses- including drawdowns, buildsups and Interference testing
- Experience with tracers
- Experience with Step Rate Tests, Injection Profile Tests, & Hall Plots
- Create base maps, structure maps, net pay maps, HCPV maps, and cross section
- Construct and update wellbore diagrams along with well history
- Determine optimum injection well placement / pattern, interval for injection, and
- Predicted injection rates vs. time per well
- Calculate ultimate primary recovery and the projected secondary recovery and timing
- For evaluation of the economics
- Handle unitization partner meetings
- Testify at the North Dakota Industiral Commission on hearings necessary for the approval of each water flood unit
- Perform all necessary compatibility tests
- Design and perform annual step rate tests on each injector
- Perform annual Injection Profile tests for each injector
- Monitor monthly each individual production & injection well performance
- Monitor monthly Pattern Balancing, Water Cut Maps, etc
- Handle any other Reservoir Engineering assignments needed
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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