Sr. Reservoir-Corporate Planning Engineer

Sr. Reservoir-Corporate Planning Engineer

Location: Houston, Tx

Description

The Senior Reservoir Corporate Planning Engineer is responsible for integrating reservoir engineering expertise into corporate planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making processes. This role supports asset valuation, reserves estimation, production forecasting, short and long-term development planning across the company’s portfolio, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and financial targets.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Planning & Strategy

• Lead development of short-, medium-, and long-term production forecasts across operated and non-operated assets
• Support corporate business planning cycles (BP, LRPs, budgets, re-forecasts)
• Provide technical inputs to corporate strategy, portfolio optimization, and capital allocation decisions
• Evaluate growth opportunities, acquisitions, and divestitures from a reservoir perspective
• Evaluate and sensitize development schedules to ensure operationally executable and minimize or mitigate operational risk
• Lead inventory scheduling and drive success of asset teams development program.

Reservoir Engineering & Forecasting

• Generate and validate decline curve analysis (DCA), type curves, and simulation-based forecasts
• Integrate subsurface, drilling, and facilities data into field-wide production models
• Ensure consistency and quality control across asset forecasts
• Support uncertainty analysis and probabilistic forecasting (P10/P50/P90)

Reserves & Resource Management

• Contribute to reserves estimation and reporting (SEC, PRMS)
• Work closely with reserves auditors and internal teams to ensure compliance

Economic Evaluation

• Perform economic analysis including NPV, IRR, breakeven pricing, and sensitivities
• Assess capital efficiency and project ranking to guide investment decisions
• Collaborate with finance teams on cash flow projections and valuation models

Cross-Functional Integration

• Collaborate with:
• Asset team (Land, Geology, Drilling, Completions & Production)
• Finance & commercial groups
• Corporate strategy and leadership
• Ensure alignment between technical evaluations and financial outcomes

Data Management & Reporting

• Maintain high-quality data for corporate planning tools and dashboards
• Prepare reports, sensitivities and presentations for executive leadership
• Support digital initiatives and automation in forecasting workflows and dashboards

Qualifications

• ARIES proficiency required
• Spotfire and/or Power BI proficiency required
• Enersight or Planning tool proficiency preferred
• Execute – Ops Schedulers experience preferred
• SQL experience preferred
• A minimum of 5+ years of Reservoir Engineering experience with a demonstrated focus on reserves, corporate planning, and acquisition analysis
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Petroleum Engineering
• High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Job is classified as light physical work in an office setting involving sitting, with intermittent periods of stooping, walking, and standing.
• Occasionally may be required to lift, carry, push, or pull 10-25 pounds.