Petroleum Engineers

Devise methods to improve oil and gas well production and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Oversee drilling and offer technical advice to achieve economical and satisfactory progress.

Job Task

• Take samples in order to assess the amount and quality of oil, the depth at which resources lie, and the equipment needed to properly extract them.
• Design or modify mining and oil field machinery and tools, applying engineering principles.
• Conduct engineering research experiments in order to improve or modify mining and oil machinery and operations.
• Develop plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment.
• Confer with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel in order to resolve design, research, and testing problems.
• Evaluate findings in order to develop, design, or test equipment or processes.
• Monitor production rates, and plan rework processes in order to improve production.
• Analyze data in order to recommend placement of wells and supplementary processes to enhance production.
• Assist engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems.
• Coordinate activities of workers engaged in research, planning, and development.
• Inspect oil and gas wells in order to determine that installations are completed.
• Assign work to staff in order to obtain maximum utilization of personnel.
• Interpret drilling and testing information for personnel.
• Test machinery and equipment in order to ensure that it is safe and conforms to performance specifications.
• Write technical reports for engineering and management personnel.
• Assess costs and estimate the production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, in order to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites.
• Coordinate the installation, maintenance, and operation of mining and oil field equipment.
• Design and implement environmental controls on oil and gas operations.
• Direct and monitor the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, and well surveys.
• Maintain records of drilling and production operations.
• Simulate reservoir performance for different recovery techniques, using computer models.
• Specify and supervise well modification and stimulation programs, in order to maximize oil and gas recovery.
• Supervise the removal of drilling equipment, the removal of any waste, and the safe return of land to structural stability when wells or pockets are exhausted.

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