Position Summary:
Reservoir Engineering is focused on ensuring the safe and reliable flow of natural gas to our customers. As a whole, Reservoir Engineering is responsible for monitoring the integrity and condition of PG&E’s natural gas storage wells and reservoirs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reviews and troubleshoots any potential issues with storage volume and pressure readings as needed.
- Participate in project design reviews
- Provide technical support to other departments in land, permitting, and legal issues.
- Solicit, prepare, and evaluate contracts and proposals from engineering consultants. Review consultant contracts for technical compliance and reviews the work of consultant and contract engineers. Project Managers may also perform this function.
- Review, update, and assess monthly liquids production reports
- Lead, coach, direct, and assist technical employees and teams on technical issues.
- Obtains gas well pressure readings at all storage fields for testing and verification of data accuracy when Specialist is not available.
- Assist in developing business case/justifications for presentation to upper management.
- Perform weekly review and update of hysteresis plots
- Performs individual well and full field flow tests, surface casing blowdown test based on test specifications and assist with scheduling and data collection as needed. Witness testing of downhole safety valves as needed.
- Perform daily review of field activities, verification of pressure and rate data, gas sample data, and comparison of rates to deliverability curves
- Provide input to the design criteria for the well design, integrity monitoring, and reliability of the natural gas storage fields.
- Review and update Monthly the field inventory to be used for engineering analysis
- Evaluate innovative and practical well workover design solutions with a focus on cost reductions, safety and reliability.
- Monitor injection and withdrawal performance of storage fields and provide forecasts and reports including assessment of flow test data.
- Under general direction apply applicable codes and regulations.
- Participates in geologic and Reservoir engineering evaluation.
- Assess well Integrity and reporting anomalies
- Act as an engineering mentor.
- Provide weekly updates on assignments, field activities, and review and verification of data
- Assist in finalizing contract project specification and technical evaluation of contract project bids.
- Perform storage field inventory analysis semi-annually and reporting findings
- Evaluate sand production inspections, and safety valve testing of downhole safety valves results.
- Compile, prepare, and seek approval of monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for submission to DOGGR
Manage large projects and perform reservoir engineering analyses, studies, and develop conceptual designs with general direction. - Supports administration, review, and retention of records and data per company policies.
- Performing engineering for well isolations, and participate in on-site commissioning activities
Required Education & Experience:
- Capable of developing cost effective solutions beneficial to our customers and PG&E.
- Apply extensive knowledge of concepts, principles and practices in a specific field or area of expertise to resolve problems of varying scopes.
- Demonstrates knowledge and abilities required for the Associate, Journey, Senior and Senior Consulting level Engineer
- Provide leadership and direction to engineers and designers. Coach and develop engineers.
- BS Degree in Petroleum Engineering
- California Petroleum Engineer PE license
- Experience in project management
- Mastery of the Associate, Journey, and Senior and Senior Consulting level engineer job duties and demonstrated knowledge and ability to perform the all level engineering duties without supervision. Meets specific technical requirements gained through a minimum of fifteen (15) years cumulative experience in storage reservoir engineering and design or related experience.
- Able to complete assignments with no precedents or standards.
- Current and active Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Able to handle multiple large programs and projects of varying scopes with no or minimal guidance and serve as expert team leader.
- A 4-year BS Degree in Engineering from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US