PROJECT ENGINEER III

Posted 22 Days Ago
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Houston, TX
Senior level
Energy
The Role
The Managed Pressure Drilling Project Engineer oversees design and field support for MPD operations. Responsibilities include hydraulic simulations, procedural expertise, and collaboration with operators and third parties to develop safe and efficient drilling plans. The role requires a thorough understanding of MPD systems and comprehensive planning and support.
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Company Description

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.


We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are focused on providing a challenging and enriching career path with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are an innovative, global company with wide-ranging opportunities that include career-enhancing talent rotations. Our structured career paths will ensure that you know what it takes to build your ideal career at Weatherford when you join our Company. We also offer a comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance coverage, income protection plans, a 401(k) savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Job Description

The Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Project Engineer is responsible for basis of design and field support for MPD operations with solutions related with hydraulic simulations and procedural expertise. The engineer will work closely with the Operator’s related disciplines, MPD crew, third parties well systems and regulatory entities to come up with the safest and most efficient plans to drill an MPD well meeting all expectations.

The MPD Project Engineer will cover operations, from office (Weatherford or client) or location, included with the Weatherford MPD product suite (Victus automated MPD system, Pressure Pro MPD system, Rotating Control Devices, Riser Gas Handling system, Multiphase injection and multiphase returns/flowdrilling managed pressure control, for both land and offshore operations). 

The objectives from a planning and support of MPD operations in term of MPD engineering simulations require that the engineer must be qualified to perform:

Steady state and transient ECD/ESD profiles in function of different MPD and drilling parameters (SBP, flow rate, mud specs, rpm, rop, etc.) and at well conditions (limitations, temperature/compressibility, rpm, and cuttings load effect, etc.)

  • Surge and swab simulations, tripping schedules (drilling BHA and casing)
  • Influx tolerance simulations (transient), MPD Matrix and IME
  • Well balancing with pill placement and full rollover
  • Pill displacement schedules
  • Managed Pressure Cementing schedules
  • MPD Schedules for non-conventional practices
  • Choke ramp tables
  • Hole cleaning
  • Surface line/equipment frictional pressure loss calculations
  • MGS flow capacity calculations
  • Writing MPD operating and contingencies procedures
  • Drawing Piping and Instrumentation diagrams
  • Analyze well parameters and propose improvements as well as detect inefficiencies.
  • Any other simulation/calculation related with our product line deliverables, function as well of evolution in time.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 8+ years related experience -
  • Must have Engineering Degree. 

Essential

  • MPD Field Engineering experience
  • Must be eligible to apply or must have legal authorization to work on a full-time basis in the North America region.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field from an accredited University with 3+ years related experience as MPD Field Engineer or similar in another company.
  • Proven rotations operating MPD systems and performing onsite engineering on onshore and Offshore environments.
  • Work on office environments for 12 hrs shifts, weekends and festive days included.
  • Excellent communication skill

Preferred

  • Experience running well planning software
  • Technical or operations experience with an operator in the field of drilling, completions, or reservoir.

Must be willing to travel to remote land and offshore work locations and possibly to other countries when needed (audits or special projects). Ability to travel internally in the geozone or globally if required attending meetings, customer office assignments or special operations.


Additional Information

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https://external-weatherford.icims.com/jobs/175065/project-engineer-iii/job?mode=view

Top Skills

Mpd
The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
27,515 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1987

What We Do

Weatherford International plc (Nasdaq: WFRD) is a leading global energy services company. Operating in approximately 75 countries, the Company answers the challenges of the energy industry with its global talent network of approximately 17,000 team members and approximately 350 operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities

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