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Verdun Oil Company · 1 day ago

Drilling Engineering Lead

Houston, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

15+ years exp

Verdun Oil Company is seeking a seasoned technical expert in drilling engineering with strong mentoring and leadership capabilities. The role involves providing advanced technical guidance on drilling projects, generating cost estimates, and supporting day-to-day drilling operations to ensure safe and cost-effective well drilling.

EnergyIndustrialOil and Gas

Responsibilities

Adherence to company safety practices to promote an incident and injury-free workplace

Guiding and mentoring less experienced drilling engineers and asset team members in resolving advanced technical issues and improving risk-reward analysis and decision quality

Constantly reviewing, developing, or improving procedures and best practices for all the Company’s drilling challenges, from the most routine to the most complex jobs

Process oversight and production of new basin cost estimates for the acquisition group

Reviewing and developing company offset analysis processes with drilling and IT technicians to improve the automation of drilling data recording, storage, and reporting

Monitoring, analysis, and post-mortem review of all drilling NPT to help improve performance, reduce costs, and drive continuous improvement

Leading the drilling team in the generation of, reporting, review of end-of-well reports, post-well look-backs, and general quarterly reviews to drive continuous improvement

Responsible for setting, collecting, analyzing, and presenting drilling cost metrics

Participating in relevant professional groups to network with other drilling engineers and experts across the industry to stay abreast of current trends and technologies that can help improve routine, step-out, and complex drilling challenges

Working closely with the leadership team and responsible for driving the final decisions on all drilling across routine as well as complex drilling situations

Leading the drilling team in optimizing BHA (including bit selection) requirements, optimizing hydraulics programs, and defining required drilling rig specifications

Leading the drilling team with monitoring ongoing 24/7 drilling operations and assisting with troubleshooting drilling-related problems with cost-effective solutions

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the leadership team

Qualification

Drilling engineeringWell planningDirectional drillingDrilling fluidsCasingCementingCost estimationMicrosoft Office SuitePower BINatural curiosityWell Control CertificateMentoring