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 waterfloods along with surveillance of existing Murex Operated waterfloods 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 waterfloods. 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 waterfloods.
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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