• Job Description

  Req#: 424351
  Occidental is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil producers in the U.S., including a leading producer in the Permian and DJ basins, and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Our midstream and marketing segment provides flow assurance and maximizes the value of our oil and gas. Our chemical subsidiary OxyChem manufactures the building blocks for life-enhancing products. Our Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary is advancing leading-edge technologies and business solutions that economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We are committed to using our global leadership in carbon management to advance a lower-carbon world. Visit oxy.com for more information. Occidental strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business. Our greatest asset has been, and will continue to be, our people. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Reservoir Engineer within the Well Analysis and Design Team in our US Onshore Resources & Carbon Management (ORCM), Midland Basin Business Unit based in Houston, TX. Responsibilities: - Provide reservoir engineering development recommendations and support for Midland Basin assets. Support includes integration of subsurface data with production data, understanding risks and opportunities in each area of responsibility, and estimating well performance at a given development scenario – understanding and optimizing for key productivity drivers is critical. - Responsible for creating and maintaining type well profiles for all potential benches for development. Includes assessing risk factors and ranges of outcomes for well performance at different spacing recommendations. - Optimize well spacing/stacking/landing patterns alongside completions engineers and geoscientists. - Support field development plans, as well as business plan and reserves cycles as needed. - Prepare forecasts for PDP locations, undeveloped location bookings, and associated documentation for annual reserves booking process. - Prepare and present technical evaluations to joint venture partner. Collaborate with partner to achieve technical alignment on development plans. - Responsible for the surveillance of wedge well performance in areas of responsibility. Provide periodic updates of actual well performance as compared to expectations, and the main causes of any deviations, to key stakeholders. - Integrator and coordinator of program lookbacks to evaluate lessons learned and improvements for future programs. Such responsibility includes evaluating and communicating well performance results and assessment of science diagnostics. - Provide reservoir engineering support for base producing wells, as well as any recompletion or workover candidates. - Create and maintain RTA models for all wedge wells in areas of responsibility. Be able to assess reservoir diagnostics based on well performance. - Be up to speed on offset competitor activity around area of responsibility. - Provide reservoir engineering support in any engineering study integration within the business unit and support teams. - Help support technical excellence of the operating staff and field operating personnel, and work closely with other multi-disciplinary teams.

• About the company

  Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States, the Middle East, and Colombia as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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