Job Description

Job Opportunity At Oxy

Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil and gas 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering or similar
• Minimum 8 years oil & gas industry experience (GOM experience preferred)
• Maintain a work ethic to establish priorities, organize, and implement own work plan while proactively making themselves available to all asset teams and ability to communicate across disciplines
• Ability to lead and coordinate ad-hoc business needs and perform conventional RE duties, e.g., budget comparisons, RE economic analysis, decision analysis, evaluation modeling

Job Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Commercial Evaluations
  • Perform economics forecasting, pricing, financial modeling, commercial basics, predict cash flow, portfolio analysis, structure acquisition/divestiture transactions, value producing properties
  • Decision analysis decision analysis trees/processes, probability and statistical, portfolio management, optimization, evaluation modeling
• Reservoir Characterization
  • Fluid properties analyze oil, gas, water fluid properties, drive fluid sampling and laboratory testing of fluids, evaluate fluid components and phase envelopes, perform compositional and other complex fluid type analyses
  • Reservoir rock properties assess reservoir thickness, porosity, permeability, characterize rock: initial water saturations, wettability, relative permeability and capillary pressures, determine pressure dependent rock properties and mineralogy in some cases
  • Volumetric Analysis calculate original hydrocarbons in place
  • Reservoir heterogeneity and characterization analyze homogeneity to heterogeneity of the reservoirs, understand stress profiles and drainage areas
• Reservoir Performance Analysis and Forecasting
  • Material Balance determine original volumes in place and make predictions on reservoir performance, model aquifer and other drive mechanisms, rationalize with mapping and volumetrics
  • Fluid flow and well productivity analysis analyze fluid flow in porous formations, pressure transient analysis, rate transient analysis and other advanced decline curve analysis, well productivity index calculation and monitoring, rate and recoverable estimates
• Fluid Displacement Analysis
  • Apply fluid displacement concepts and techniques along with non-uniform fluid movement
• Analytical Performance Analysis of Reservoir Mechanisms
  • Assess reservoir types and drive mechanisms
  • Gas reservoir analysis and performance prediction
  • Black-Oil reservoir analysis and performance prediction
  • Waterflood performance interpretation and prediction
  • All decline curve performance analysis, advanced and traditional
• Reservoir Simulation for Performance Analysis and Production Forecasting
  • Broad understanding of simulation concepts, types, models, data inputs
  • Assess heterogeneities and how to represent in the model
  • Understand and build surface to subsurface networks, nodal analysis
  • Perform compositional modeling where applicable
  • Coordinate / support corporate forecasting and budgeting processes for volumes and capital
• Reservoir Surveillance and Management
  • Determine reserves through probabilistic methods
  • Understand and apply SEC reserve guidelines
  • Determine reserves through deterministic methods
• Reservoir Development Life Cycle
  • Integration with other disciplines and partners - Drive multi-discipline integration of the projects
  • Reservoir Management perform reservoir surveillance, studies on analogous wells, reservoirs and other fields, enhanced recovery techniques and screening, intervention planning and management, field development planning, appraisal leadership, rate and recovery estimates pre-development and brownfield

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