Sr. Reservoir-Corporate Planning Engineer
Houton
Description

Position Summary

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.