Principal Completion Engineer

1 day ago


Houston, Texas, United States CNPC USA Full time
Job Summary

CNPC USA is seeking a highly skilled Principal Completion Engineer to lead the design and implementation of completion strategies for unconventional plays, ensuring optimal production and environmental safety.

The ideal candidate will bring a strategic perspective to completion operations, utilizing their extensive experience to enhance our operational capabilities.

This pivotal role involves developing FRAC stimulation designs and completion strategies for CNPC assets, integrating multidisciplinary subsurface data, reservoir and FRAC modeling, alongside optimized wellbore architecture.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement completion strategies for unconventional plays, ensuring optimal production and environmental safety.
  • Lead the design and implementation of FRAC stimulation designs and completion strategies for CNPC assets.
  • Integrate multidisciplinary subsurface data, reservoir and FRAC modeling, alongside optimized wellbore architecture.
  • Enhance completion designs to boost key productivity factors.
  • Keep updated on emerging technologies in operations, modeling, and hydraulic fracturing diagnostics to continually refine practices and approaches.
  • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, including drilling and production engineers, to ensure seamless project execution.
  • Mentor junior engineers and oversee technical teams in completion-related projects.
  • Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and safety standards.
  • Manage project budgets and timelines, ensuring efficient resource allocation.
  • Participate in peer reviews and assist in support of Geomechanical analysis and reservoir engineering.
Requirements
  • Master's or Doctoral degree in Petroleum or related Engineering field(s).
  • 15+ years of experience in Completion Engineering and/or Stimulation Design Engineering, particularly within unconventional reservoirs.
  • Experience in the unconventional reservoirs in North America and any on-site FRAC stimulation are desirable.
  • Proficiency in FRAC modeling and the implementation of integrated FRAC design workflows using GOHFER, StimPlan, ResFrac and/or similar industry-standard software is essential.
  • Advanced programming skills, especially in Python and familiarity with the Pandas library, are preferred.
  • Competency in Spotfire, managing large datasets, and creating impactful data visualizations to drive business decisions are also preferred.
Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

This position requires international and domestic travel. Local travel between other CNPC USA locations is required.



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