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Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various ideas and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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www.apacorp.com Specific Responsibilities
The Production Engineer will be a member of Apache’s Legacy US Onshore Asset Team comprised of conventional/waterflood/CO2 flood properties, reporting to the Legacy Asset Production Engineering Manager. This role will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Work directly with Operations, Workover Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Facilities, Land, Geoscience, and Planning to deliver SAFE, reliable, and cost-efficient reactive well repair and proactive optimization projects;
• Surveillance of production and injection rates to identify performance improvement opportunities;
• Evaluation of well repair options, enhancement opportunities, associated costs, likelihood of success, and expected production to determine economic value required to justify Authority for Expenditures;
• Work with Operations & Facilities Teams to identify, evaluate, and recommend cost reduction, reliability and/or debottlenecking projects (rate adding projects);
• Identify high failure frequency wells (fail more than twice in the past 12 months) and proactively do whatever work is required to extend runtime;
• Work with Reservoir Engineering and Geoscience Teams to identify rate adding opportunities (e.g. add perfs, water shut-offs, plugbacks, frac potential, etc.);
• Design, install, troubleshoot, and optimize operation of Rod Lift, ESP, Gas Lift, and/or Plunger Lift artificial lift systems for new and existing wells;
• Perform Root Cause Failure Analysis on all artificial lift types and recommend solutions to increase runtime between failures in an effort to decrease lease operating expense and increase production;
• Work with Land and Operations Teams to ensure acreage is maintained within LOA and all necessary work is done in a timely manner to prevent any leasehold from being compromised;
• Provide economic justification for any automation necessary to perform production and injection surveillance at the well, lease, field, and asset level;
• Ensure wellbore integrity and perform risk management assessments on any Apache operated offset well due to frac hits or any other SimOps situation, either operated or non-operated by Apache;
• Engage partners as applicable and provide input to partner reviews;
• Develop and maintain existing and new surveillance data sets and tools necessary to perform optimization workflows for all production and injection well types;
• Build, maintain, and tune nodal analysis models to ensure each well’s performance is optimized within network constraints and design;
• Train Engineering and Operational personnel on Surveillance and Optimization tools, datasets, and workflows. Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering required, from a competitive four-year college or university, with strong academic credentials
• At least 5 to 8+ years of experience working for energy companies, in production engineering and production operations, preferable in the Permian Basin
• Must be proficient in all Microsoft applications and other E&P computer applications (i.e: Wellview, Cygnet, Spotfire, OFM, Foresite, Wellflo, Prosper, Rodstar, ESP surveillance tools)
• Medium to high level of production engineering expertise in all types of operations related to the full life cycle of oil & gas producer wells, including:
• Completions, recompletions, and workovers
• Wellbore interventions including slick line, electric line, and coiled tubing operations
• Artificial lift design, and troubleshootingArtificial lift design, and troubleshooting
• Nodal analysis (Inflow/Outflow performance)
• Facilities upgrades/modification and production takeaway limitations
• Preferred experience in managing, manipulating, and merging large datasets which feed surveillance tools and workflows as well as proficiency in programming (Java, Python, SQL, R, C#, etc.)
• Experience building RACI charts and developing/leading the creation of new multidiscipline workflows
• Proven track record of financial performance and responsibility with experience in budget and schedule planning, AFE preparation and economic evaluation
• Strong communication, interpersonal, management, administrative, organizational, and leadership skills
• Experience implementing sound decisions when faced with multi-faceted problems
• Demonstrated ability to communicate vision, set team goals, strengthen an organization, engage teammates, build teamwork, and learn from and mentor others

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. Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.
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