Job Details

Location: Houston, United States
Sector: Other
Salary: Competitive hourly rate offered based on experience

Job Title: Reservoir Engineer
Job Category: Subsurface, Reservoir Engineer, Level III/IV
Location: Houston (no relocation). Hybrid working (3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote/home working), 40 hrs/wk.
Duration: March - August 2025 with potential to extend

Role Synopsis: This Reservoir Engineering position supports deepwater assets and acreage in the western hemisphere. It is a high-profile role requiring an applicant with strong initiative, influence, communication skills, and technical judgment. The work involves collaboration with other engineering disciplines, geoscientists, and finance teams.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide sound reservoir engineering technical analysis, judgment, and guidance to support the identification, evaluation, and progression of value-generating resources and exploration/appraisal opportunities.
• Generate development plan scenarios and conduct concept screening to ensure an economic and viable development concept for project progression.
• Support and/or lead the analysis and application of Discovered Resource Management guidelines to discovered volumes and contribute to appropriate documentation.
• Ensure subsurface products align with technical expectations for sanction decision quality of development.
• Describe subsurface uncertainties and define work products needed to sufficiently explore those uncertainties.
• Build appropriate models to describe and test a range of sensitivities, utilizing classical and/or numerical methods based on scope, available data, and analogs.
• Collaborate with integrated production and/or exploration teams.
• Support the well-planning process for upcoming exploration, appraisal, and development wells, as well as analyze, interpret, and integrate data acquired from E&A wells.

Essential Education & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in reservoir engineering, petroleum engineering, or a related field.
• Sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions is not available for this role.

Desirable Criteria & Qualifications:

• Direct hands-on experience with analytical/numerical reservoir engineering toolkits (e.g., PETEX IPM, Nexus, Pressure Transient Analysis, Decline Curve Analysis) to assess risk and uncertainty management.
• Experience in classical reservoir engineering, reservoir management, and field development planning.
• Experience in well and project planning processes, including drilling operations, well evaluations, and facility options.
• Experience in deepwater exploration, appraisal, and field development.
• Experience in subsurface project evaluation and value of information analysis.
• Developing proficiency in data science and analytics.
• Enthusiasm for geoscience.

Travel Requirement:

• Limited to no travel required.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion:
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.