Petroleum Engineer

Description

Plans, develops and directs the engineering work in drilling, production and formation evaluation to achieve optimal exploration, development and extraction of oil and gas resources.

Description

Plan and direct the engineering aspects of locating and extracting minerals, petroleum and natural gas from the earth.

Tasks include

• Plans, researches, designs and provides advice on engineering operations for the exploration, location and extraction of oil and gas
• Conducts studies to determine potential locations for drillings
• Uses computer models to determine ideal recovery processes, and simulate and predict reserve performance
• Analyses reservoir rock and fluid data to design optimum methods of controlling the flow of oil or gas from wells
• Monitors the evaluation of wells, well testing and well surveys