Artificial Lift Engineer II

Specific Responsibilities

The Artificial Lift Engineer, for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Production Engineering team, reporting to the Production Engineering Manager.  

This role will be primarily responsible for the following: 

•    Surveil and optimize production wells to maximize value and ensure well integrity.
•    Provide operational/engineering support during new well start-up.
•    Work with Production operations & engineering teams to identify reliability, cost reduction, and debottlenecking projects.
•    Daily surveillance/optimization/troubleshooting with operations personnel for difficult to operate, high failure frequency wells, and/or high value wells.
•    Utilize and maintain existing data sets and tools necessary to perform optimization workflows for all production wells.
•    Identify, evaluate, and test new technology, hardware, automation, and autonomous control algorithms to evaluate and optimize wells real-time.
•    Build, maintain, and tune nodal analysis models to ensure each well’s performance is optimized within network constraints and design.  
•    Primary contact for gas lift and plunger lift:  provider interface, operational issues, cost control, standardizing best practices for optimization, reliability, equipment longevity, etc.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience: 

•    A BS degree in Engineering from a competitive four-year college or university, with strong academic credentials.
•    Experience working for and/or with oil and gas operating companies with unconventional and conventional assets 
•    Knowledge of artificial lift design, well and facility operations and optimization, ancillary bottom hole equipment function and design, workover intervention objectives and processes, and root cause failure of mechanical equipment with special emphasis on gas lift and plunger lifT.
•    Proficient in production systems and/or artificial lift design and production modeling applications to extract full value from surveillance software and datasets (Spotfire, Power BI, OFM, OSI PI, ForeSite, WellFlo, PROSPER, PipeSim, Palantir, etc.)with special emphasis on gas lift and plunger lift.
•    Proficient in managing, manipulating, and merging large datasets (Microsoft SQL, Oracle) which feed surveillance tools and workflows.  
•    Strong communication, interpersonal, influencing, and leadership skills.
•    Experience implementing sound decisions when faced with multi-faceted problems. 

Competencies

The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:

• Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
• Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
• Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
• Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living. We are committed to providing oil and natural gas in more innovative and sustainable ways to help meet the world's energy needs.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache and other affiliated subsidiaries have operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom's North Sea and exploration opportunities offshore Suriname.

For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit: www.apacorp.com.

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