Senior Drilling Engineer
Houston TX
 
We just received this job requisition on April 29th and we are anxious to fill this six-figure position located in Houston, Texas. Indeed, this a career position 
for the petroleum engineering professional with particular expertise in well-construction technologies.
 
Engage your mind in powerful new ways to evaluate North America's most challenging unconventional resource plays and mature Gulf of Mexico 
dedevelopment opportunities. Our Client is managed as a fast-moving, entrepreneurial exploitation company with capitalization to allow participation in 
a large number of projects. We need a highly skilled and innovative Drilling Engineer to join our team of senior petroleum professionals focused on 
crafting the next generation of reservoir-specific solutions. Year-end and long-term incentive bonuses are tied to the successful application of these 
solutions.
 
The successful candidate will work within a senior multi-discipline team using leading-edge well construction technologies and best-practices to evaluate 
and exploit opportunities in order to create significant improvements in recovery efficiency, well productivity and development cost. Target projects are in 
resource plays such as stacked tight gas sands, gas shales, naturally fractured reservoirs, and coal bed methane. An additional target is certain mature 
GOM fields that have good potential for further development using innovative technology applied within the context of advanced geo-science 
interpretation and past exploitation understanding. Our Client’s objectives for the GOM opportunities are to identify and exploit attic oil, new fault blocks, 
and/or deeper pools.
 
The Senior Drilling Engineer will support project evaluation work by providing offset well/analog field analysis and innovative well engineering. The job 
will involve coordination with various Client and other service company specialists to provide best-in-class conceptual well plans, detailed drilling 
procedures, risk assessments, contingency plans, and related cost estimates. Important focus area includes complex well architectures (horizontal and 
multi-lateral well profiles), multi-rig factory drilling and completion techniques, drilling through pressure depleted zones located in close proximity to 
over-pressured zones, drilling through salt sections, managed pressure drilling, under-balanced applications, HPHT environments, and casing drilling 
methods.
 
Candidates must have at least an undergraduate degree in Engineering and a minimum of 15 years of relevant industry experience on technically 
challenging well construction projects. They will be challenged to research critical topics pertinent to the project evaluations they are supporting, to be 
creative, and to take advantage of everything our Client and other companies have to offer in terms of technology, global best practices and local 
knowledge in crafting each reservoir-specific solution. This will be a significant learning and professional growth opportunity since the successful 
candidate will work on a number of vastly different project evaluations each year in many of the industry's hottest plays.
 
Remuneration is greater than competitive. Indeed, you’ll be impressed with the total six-figure package that includes comprehensive relocation and an 
exceptional bonus plan.