Reservoir Engineering Advisor

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Date: Apr 27, 2026

Location: Oklahoma City, OK, US, 73118

Company: Expand Energy

Our core values — Stewardship, Character, Collaborate, Learn, Disrupt — are the lens through which we evaluate every business decision. As a dynamic, growing company that offers extremely competitive compensation and benefits, our employees are our most valued assets and the foundation of Expand's performance among our E&P competitors.

We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. We realize that, historically, underrepresented groups feel the need to be 100% qualified in order to apply. If you meet any combination of our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We strive to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

 

Job Summary

This senior level position is considered an advisor that solves problems among business/functional teams and occasionally across business lines or regions in order to address the most complex petrotechnical engineering challenges. This position has budgetary type of accountabilities or direct impacts upon a revenue center's viability or its quality of service via personal contributions.

 

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Provides recommendations and advise in particular area of expertise
  • Evaluates current practices to identify improvement opportunities company wide
  • Attends industry events to gather data or represent company
  • Identifies and tracks new technologies in their area of expertise that have potential to benefit the company
  • Assess costs and estimate the production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites
  • Develops plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment
  • Directs and monitors the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, or well surveys
  • Analyzes data to recommend placement of wells and supplementary processes to enhance production
  • Monitors production rates, and plans rework processes to improve production
  • Interprets drilling and testing information
  • Specifies and supervises well modification and stimulation programs to maximize oil and gas recovery
  • Assists engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems
  • Confers with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel to resolve design, research, and testing problems
  • Coordinates the installation, maintenance, and operation of oil field equipment
  • Performs field and screening studies of existing assets and potential acquisitions, including associated economic analyses
  • Recommends, acquires, and analyzes the necessary test data used to define accurate reservoir characterization.
  • Conducts exploration project evaluations to include probabilistic analyses
  • Provides monitoring and surveillance programs for reservoir performance, and coordinates these programs to determine if the development plan is congruent with management strategy
  • Trains, mentors and develops less experienced engineers
  •  Recruits, develops and oversees development/training plan for entry-level engineers and summer engineering interns, etc.
  • Promotes shared learnings and best practices
  • Serves as effective project manager on select larger and more complex projects company wide
  • Acts as an integral contributor to field leadership, interface extensively with field operations
  • Troubleshoots broader and more technical operational problems
  • Cultivates and manages career development and training plans for entry-level engineers and summer engineering interns
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Job Specific Skills

  • Expert knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of the oil and gas industry
  • Expert knowledge and ability to integrate well performance/nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, material balance, volumetric and decline curve analyses in the evaluation are essential
  • Expert knowledge and application of volumetric calculations, decline curve reserve determinations, appropriate analogue techniques and material balance assessments
  • Expertise in economic evaluation and reserve assessment for exploration programs, development drilling programs, work overs and production optimization opportunities
  • Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
  • Expert knowledge of and skills associated with reservoir simulation techniques
  • Expert knowledge of unconventional experience associated with tight gas reservoirs, CBM development, and shale gas resource work

Education

Minimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university

Minimum: One of the following:

Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or

Professional Engineer (PE) license, or

Master’s degree - from accredited university - Master’s of Engineering degree from a program in which the correlating Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the ABET EAC

Experience

Minimum: 12 years related work experience

Additional Qualifications

 

Expand Energy takes necessary action to ensure that all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

 

Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the United States.

 


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