Job Details

Senior Midstream Project Engineer (Permian Basin)

Location: Houston, TX - Midland/Odessa, TX (Permian Basin)

Discipline: Midstream Engineering & Projects (Oil & Gas)

Seniority: 15+ years (Oilfield Engineering & Construction)

Travel: ~30–50% across Permian field locations and contractor yards

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Midstream Project Engineer to lead full-lifecycle delivery of midstream assets supporting unconventional oil development and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) programs for locations in the Texas Permian Basin. This role focuses on gathering systems, oil/water/gas pipelines, central facilities, gas compression, supply and produced water handling/recycling, saltwater disposal (SWD), and CO2/N2 transmission, injection, and recycle systems. You'll interface home office engineering teams and subsurface and completions teams to support production uplift initiatives including EOR (huff-n-puff and/or flood) with associated oil recovery, ensuring safe, compliant, and capital-efficient project execution. This role is anticipated to involve both home office (Houston area) and remote/field work.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Technical Leadership

• Reporting to the Project Manager will provide direct leadership of a team (~20 +/-) through engineering, planning, design, and execution of midstream infrastructure: oil/gas/water gathering, CO2/N2/Steam systems and injection facilities, compression, dehydration, measurement, and custody transfer systems.
• Manage project scope, schedule, and quality from concept through start-up; maintain risk registers and management of change (MOC).
• Develop and approve basic PFDs/P&IDs, hydraulic calculations, line sizing, pipeline class/location analysis, materials selection, and corrosion/chemical treatment strategies.
• Engineer CO2/N2 handling systems (dense-phase and gas), steam processing systems, injection skid design, pressure management, recycle compression, and tie-ins to EOR patterns; coordinate sequestration and monitoring considerations with subsurface.
• Support fracturing programs: temporary/permanent high-rate water transfer, sand logistics tie-ins, flowback handling, and debottlenecking of early production facilities.

Construction & Field Execution

• Support oversight of contractor bid, award, and construction; manage field engineering, RFI resolution, redlines/as-builts, pre-commissioning, and start-up.
• Ensure constructability, ROW and land coordination, surveying, HDD/boring plans, hydrotest/pigging plans, and quality control (NDT, coatings, weld procedures).
• Drive field safety leadership and adherence to LOTO, PSM elements where applicable, and hot work/confined space standards.

Commercial, Regulatory & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with land, legal, and regulatory for TxDOT, RRC (Texas Railroad Commission) filings, PHMSA pipeline safety compliance, air/water permits, and CO2 handling/reporting.
• Interface with production, operations, HSE, subsurface, completions, measurement, and marketing to align designs with production targets and reliability KPIs.
• Lead technical inputs for commercial agreements (interconnects, tariffs, measurement/custody transfer, allocation and balancing).

Reliability, Integrity & Optimization

• Implement pipeline integrity management (ILI, MAOP reconfirmation, HCA/MCAs), corrosion control (CP, IC), leak detection, and overpressure protection.
• Optimize compression and gathering hydraulics for changing reservoir/CO2 EOR regimes; implement debottlenecking and low-emissions designs (VRU, LDAR, electrification where feasible).
• Drive continuous improvement—benchmarking capex/opex, standardizing designs, implementing digital tools (SCADA, historian, pipeline simulation, facility digital twins).

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum, or Civil Engineering (ABET-accredited). Non-engineering degreed professionals may also be considered with proven relevant experience.
• 15+ years of oilfield engineering and construction experience with significant time in the Permian Basin
• Proven delivery of midstream projects: gathering pipelines (oil/gas/water/CO2), compression, LACT/tank batteries, SWD, and central facilities.
• Hands-on experience with EOR infrastructure (transmission, injection, recycle/compression) and fracturing support systems (high-rate water logistics, flowback handling).
• Superior field presence, safety leadership, communication, and cross-disciplinary coordination.
• Proficiency in using standard office software like Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• P.E. license (Texas) or ability to obtain.
• Experience with dense-phase gas hydraulics, dehydration, materials selection for CO2 service, and H2S service considerations.
• Background with applicable codes/standards and regulators: ASME B31.3/B31.4/B31.8, API standards (e.g., API 650/653/12F, API 14C/14E), PHMSA, RRC, EPA air/water compliance, and TxDOT crossings.
• Knowledge with pipeline/facility engineering tools (e.g., PIPEPHASE/OLGA/AFT/PIPEsim or equivalents), AutoCAD or CAD review, and SCADA basics.
• Familiarity with AFE development, cost control, scheduling (Primavera P6 or MS Project), and contractor oversight.
• Working knowledge of PSM/RMP elements for applicable facilities, custody transfer measurement (API MPMS), and allocation systems.
• Background in emissions reduction initiatives (VRU design, flaring minimization, pneumatically-driven device conversions, LDAR).
• Vendor/contractor network across Permian for rapid mobilization (line pipe, HDD, coating, compression, and E&I).

Physical/Field Requirements

• Ability to visit remote field sites, walk ROWs and facilities, and work in all seasonal conditions in West Texas.
• Comfortable with routine PPE and safety protocols; valid driver's license and clean driving record.

No C2C or H1B candidates please.