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Tasks and Duties
- 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.
- 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.
- Specify and supervise well modification and stimulation programs, in order to maximize oil and gas recovery.
- Direct and monitor the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, and well surveys.
- Assist engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems.
- Develop plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment.
- Maintain records of drilling and production operations.
- Confer with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel in order to resolve design, research, and testing problems.
- Write technical reports for engineering and management personnel.
- Evaluate findings in order to develop, design, or test equipment or processes.
- Assign work to staff in order to obtain maximum utilization of personnel.
- Interpret drilling and testing information for personnel.
- Design and implement environmental controls on oil and gas operations.
- Coordinate the installation, maintenance, and operation of mining and oil field equipment.
- 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.
- Inspect oil and gas wells in order to determine that installations are completed.
- Simulate reservoir performance for different recovery techniques, using computer models.
- 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.
- Coordinate activities of workers engaged in research, planning, and development.
- Design or modify mining and oil field machinery and tools, applying engineering principles.
- Test machinery and equipment in order to ensure that it is safe and conforms to performance specifications.
- Conduct engineering research experiments in order to improve or modify mining and oil machinery and operations.
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This project is supported, in part, by the NationalScience Foundation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation
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