Senior Production Engineer - Calgary, Canada - Cenovus Energy

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Senior Production Engineer

About this opportunity:

This critical role contributes to the achievement of Cenovus's production goals by handling a group of wells and assets focusing on the sandface to the wellhead, working with reservoir/development engineers, geosciences, operations engineering, and field operations to ensure well performance is optimized. This role is accountable for increasing well performance for all producing wells in Cenovus's Primary Conventional Heavy Oil portfolio and ensuring value accretive decisions are made with respect to each well on a continual basis.

When overseeing new drills, this position will work in collaboration with Operations and other members of the asset team to optimize well delivery. Additionally, the successful candidate will optimize profitability of wells and core areas and leverage other subsurface teams in driving base production optimization activities.

This role may also closely collaborate with EOR Production Engineering counterparts as a development pathway and to support absence coverage. This role will require a minimum of 2 field visits per year to support understanding of assets and building collaborative relationships with field personnel.

What you'll do:

• Responsible to ensure that Primary Conventional Heavy Oil wells are optimized to increase profitability and run the long-term resource recovery for each core area, achieved through artificial lift design, recompletions, well optimization, operating strategies and workovers/cleanouts
• Work collaboratively with other subsurface teams, operations engineering and field operations to drive short and long term improvements from a subsurface focus
• Responsible for well candidate identification and responsible for workover strategies and execution
• Develops downhole optimization plans annually for each core area and desk as assigned, working with other subsurface teams and field operations to rank opportunities
• Leads monthly reviews of operating income by well, ensuring that realized netback price changes drive decision making with respect to marginal well startups or shut ins.
• Responsible for all artificial lift selection and design with respect to new and existing wells
• Responsible for production reporting and near-term production forecasting/overwrites for assigned assets
• initiate and drive lookbacks on new well startups, working closely with subsurface teams to continually improve development through data acquisition, lab analysis and empirical evaluations
• Complete competitor analysis reviews annually across assigned assets in the Lloydminster Heavy Oil block with respect to new well completion design, new well workover frequency and other downhole production engineering related activities for all major peers
• Cross share with team members to further develop their strengths to drive team and organizational performance
• Invest in personal professional development to increase effectiveness
• Supports innovation, continuous improvement and creativity within the team
• Become the subject matter expert (SME) on selected portfolios on behalf of the team

Who you are:

• Membership in APEGA or other Provincial Professional Geoscience Organization is required
• 8+ years of experience is required.
• Preference for Conventional Heavy Oil or SAGD experience
• Established skills in either Reservoir/Development engineering, Production Engineering or Facilities Engineering with depth of knowledge of multiple subsurface fields
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and ability to influence others without authority
• Communicates complex information, clearly and concisely to diverse audience

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT JUNE 25, 2024.

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Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.

Who we are:

We're an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We're committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.

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The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus's downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

Our shares trade under the symbol CVE and are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges.

We have many inclusion and diversity networks that are open to all staff at Cenovus . These networks are voluntary, employee-led and executive-sponsored groups that increase awareness and influence practices and programs to enhance the experience of all staff – whether they identify with the specific demographic or are allies.