Job Description

The Asset Reservoir Engineer will be responsible for providing reservoir engineering analysis to support Fervo Energy’s geothermal development activities.

Fervo’s Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. To accomplish that goal, Fervo has developed groundbreaking technology solutions that have advanced the state-of-the-art of geothermal energy decades ahead of schedule, including the world’s most successful commercial enhanced geothermal system completed in 2023. Fervo has raised over $400 million from leading investors and has secured a multi-billion-dollar project pipeline to meet the world’s growing need for 24/7 carbon free energy. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, investors, and developers in making geothermal a key pillar of our climate-friendly energy future.

Description

The Asset Reservoir Engineer will be responsible for providing reservoir engineering analysis to support Fervo Energy’s geothermal development activities. This position will play a key role in shaping the development strategy, evaluating reservoir performance, and improving capital efficiency across Fervo’s growing project portfolio. Responsibilities will include asset development planning, economic evaluations, reservoir simulation to perform history matching, production forecasting, well completion and stimulation treatment design optimization, and reservoir management optimization. The Asset Reservoir Engineer will design and implement well testing, reservoir monitoring, and other data acquisition programs to continuously improve Fervo’s field operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain asset plans, collaborating with the geoscience team to optimize well placement, spacing and design for current and future development.
• Develop and implement data acquisition and well testing programs for Fervo field projects; develop well testing procedures and analyze field data.
• Support ongoing field operations providing subsurface feedback, design suggestions and procedure modifications.
• Analyze production and injection data, including pressure transient data, rate-transient data, and diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) data.
• Use reservoir simulation to perform production forecasts to evaluate various reservoir management strategies and development plans.
• Collaborate with operations team to conduct model optimization studies driving well enhancements for future development.
• Conduct uncertainty quantification studies for reservoir field diagnostic tests and well performance.
• Support pad facilities and power plant design decisions based on well performance and forecasts.
• Evaluate economic and profitability potential of asset plans and development scenarios.
• History match geothermal reservoir simulation models based on field-wide production data.
• Prepare comprehensive technical evaluations with recommendations.
• Participate in industry meetings and conferences.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience in the oil and gas or geothermal industries.
• Experience running commercial reservoir simulation software including ResFrac, Eclipse, CMG, Tough2, or TETRAD.
• Experience running commercial or research hydraulic fracture simulation software, including GOHFER, Kinetix, ResFrac, StimPlan, or FrackOptima.
• Knowledge of geomechanics and thermodynamics.
• Experience with Python programming.
• Field experience in oil and gas, geothermal, or similar operations.
• Willing and able to travel to field during completion and well testing (<10% of time) and to other Fervo offices as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SAGD, water floods, hydraulic fracturing, and well stimulation techniques in unconventional oil and gas.
• Experience in geothermal reservoir engineering in conventional hydrothermal systems.
• Experience working with geomodeling software (Petrel, EarthVision, GOCAD, LeapFrog, or similar).
• Experience in data analytics with Spotfire or Power BI.

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