Senior Reservoir Engineer, Montney

Whitecap Resources Inc. is a leading Canadian energy company committed to delivering reliable returns to shareholders through the responsible development of oil and natural gas assets in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. With a strong track record of profitable growth and a sustainable dividend, Whitecap delivers long-term value to investors, supported by investment-grade financial strength.

Since September 2009, Whitecap has experienced remarkable growth, increasing production from 850 boe/d to over 365,000 boe/d. We have unconventional and conventional assets exclusively focused in Western Canada and the asset base includes the Weyburn EOR Project. As a majority owner and operator of the Weyburn EOR Project, annually we safely sequester approximately 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 making it a unique project within our portfolio. We currently employ 1,200 people, including our valued contract staff.

At Whitecap, our corporate culture is entrepreneurial. We strive to create a culture of purpose and integrity where initiative and innovation are encouraged and valued. Our corporate philosophy allows us to develop skills, collaborate alongside our teammates, and ultimately have a fulfilling career.

Position Overview

Whitecap Resources seeks a Senior Reservoir Engineer to become a fully integrated member of the West Division, with a focus on the Gold Creek Montney unconventional asset.   In this role, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to establish development plans, optimize completion designs, and ensure reservoir uncertainties and risks are understood and quantified for development purposes and accurate production forecasting. 

• In this role, you will provide in-depth Reservoir Analyses, as a part of the Asset Team, as it relates to: 

• Development planning and optimization with both short (budget) and long term (strategic) views 
• Production forecasting
• A&D opportunities 
• Reserves evaluations and strategies 
• AER compliance and applications 

Main Responsibilities & Activities:

• Provide reservoir engineering technical support to the asset team to create, optimize and/or enhance the deliverability of oil and gas assets to deliver on the near term budget and long term corporate objectives. 
• Optimize well spacing, landing depths, and completion design using modern reservoir engineering methods (Modelling/RTA), analytics and incorporation of well tests/diagnostics into analysis in support of the asset development decisions 
• Organization and analysis of technical studies, such as advanced core analysis, reservoir simulations and other laboratory work as required to progress reservoir characterization and delineation
• Work with asset team to plan, design and incorporate diagnostic tests (fibre optic monitoring, FDI analysis, perf imaging etc.) to progress completion understanding and development effectiveness 
• Implementation of statistical methods, including traditional methods and machine learning for enhanced insights into well performance and identification of optimization opportunities
• Choke/Flowback management strategy development and implementation
• Coordinating, building and presenting pad lookbacks on recent pads with focus on learnings and improvement go forward
• Explore future EOR opportunities; develop screening and pilot plans as appropriate
• Ensure well testing requirements/evaluations are completed; includes coordination with operations group (includes, but not limited to, DFIT/BU analysis, FBA/PTA, Pressure surveys/Interference testing, PVT, chemical sampling, etc)
• Collaborate with asset team to review and assess reserve assignments for assigned fields
• Work with asset team to assess corporate OOIP/OGIP, recovery factors, and inventory locations
• Provide reservoir engineering support for strategic acquisitions and divestment opportunities 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 8+ years of reservoir engineering experience, ideally with experience in reservoir engineering for Unconventional oil/gas condensate plays
• Ability to manage several projects and deadlines simultaneously  
• Strong understanding of PVT and geomechanical concepts and their impact on pad development and optimization
• Excellent communicator with the ability to translate complex technical ideas to a diverse asset team
• Working knowledge of reservoir simulation tools such as Stream-Sim, Petrel & Eclipse and/or CMG
• Working knowledge of Harmony and Whitson+
• Strong programming and data analytics skills, and the ability to organize and extract valuable insights from complex datasets using statistics and machine learning methods