Experienced PhD Wells Researcher

 

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What role you will play in our team

We are looking for experienced research engineers to perform subsurface/wells-related research (drilling, completions, etc.) in the areas of Unconventionals and Deepwater/Conventional Oil and Gas development. The position will require the selected individual to be working in a dynamic environment with integrated multi-disciplinary teams including geoscientists, reservoir engineers, and operations engineers to support a range of subsurface/wells-related technology development.  The position will be located in Spring, TX.

What you will do

 

• Research, assess, and develop new technologies, tools and workflows for subsurface/wells-related applications for either the Unconventional or Deepwater/Conventional assets.

• Conduct studies in one or more of the following areas to demonstrate and apply newly developed technologies and workflows:

  •                  Unconventional completions and fracture diagnostics

  •                  Integrated fracture-reservoir modeling 

  •                  Coupled physics modeling for well injection / well production

  •                  Geomechanics

  •                  Carbon capture and sequestration

Skills and Qualifications

 

Technical skill requirements are as follows:

 

• Ph.D. strongly preferred, but will also consider outstanding Masters candidates.

• Degrees of interest include Engineering (Petroleum, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical), Applied and Computational Mathematics, Applied Physics, Chemistry, or a closely related field with graduate and/or project work in at least one of the following areas:

  • Numerical modeling of fractures

  • Solid Mechanics (e.g., Geomechanics)

  • Fluid mechanics (numerical modeling of flow in wellbore / porous media)

  • Coupled-physics modeling (models incorporating fluid + solid mechanics)

  • Experimental / numerical modeling for carbonate acidizing treatments

  • Lab experimental design & application / field-scale pilots

  • Integrated fracture and reservoir modeling

  • Unconventional completions operations and/or reservoir engineering 

 

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

 

• Minimum of 3 years of post-grad/non-university industry experience (5+ years strongly preferred) in Upstream O&G working subsurface/wells-related rese