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Job Summary

Job Description

Permian Basin Overview

ConocoPhillips and its heritage companies have operated in the Permian Basin for almost 100 years. Across New Mexico and Texas, the company holds conventional positions in the Northwest Shelf and Central Basin Platform, and an unconventional position in the Delaware Basin. Permian saw significant growth in 2021 with the acquisition of Concho Resources Inc. in January 2021 and the addition of Shell’s Permian acreage in December 2021. At year-end, the company held approximately 1.5 million net acres in the Permian Basin.

Net production for the Permian in 2022 was 461 MBOED.

The company’s competitive portfolio includes assets operated by others in both Midland and Delaware Basin. Through partnerships with leading operators in the Permian, ConocoPhillips has a high-quality opportunity set that provides program flexibility and optionality. The OBO position is a strategic complement to the company’s operated position with ongoing acreage trades and business development transactions to manage risk and improve overall value of all Delaware and Midland basin assets.

In 2022, the company participated in 382 new gross drilled wells operated by others with an average working interest of 21%. The OBO position includes over 4,600 gross non-operated producing wells. Net production in 2022 averaged 192 MBOED.

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Description

The Permian Joint Venture team is seeking a highly motivated and qualified individual with a background in project and inventory management. As a critical member of the team, you will collaborate with individuals within the OBO team and across Permian Planning, Permian Finance & Portfolio teams.

Responsibilities may include:

• Handling Permian OBO’s inventory wells in service of Ballot Evaluations, Long Range Plans (LRP), Portfolio Strategy, and Resource management
• Lead initiatives to enhance integrated scheduling efforts for more efficient and effective planning workflows within OBO and Permian
• Manage, provide QA/QC and populate Permian OBO’s inventory per BU guidelines
• Assist engineers with updates to inventory when Ballots are received
• Collaborate with key scheduling stakeholders to identify risks and opportunities associated with current schedule and assess impact of alternative scenarios
• Support Outlook and LRP business plan submissions
• Support Permian OBO’s Portfolio tool data flows, ensuring appropriate integration with ValNav updates
• Coordinate annual Resource inventory loading effort working with geoscience, land, engineering, and operations to ensure all inputs are diligently captured
• Monthly updating inventory with new schedules received from non-operating partners
• Progressing DSO link for streamlining partner schedule loads into Valnav
• Monthly tracking and reporting variances between the received partner activity and schedules
• Ensuring alignment of inventory information between ValNav and JV applications when the sources are not linked
• Coordinate monthly operated schedule with partners
• Support and keep evergreen - insights into operating cost trends and associated estimates for outlooks and LRP
• Provide ad-hoc support for studies and special projects for the Joint Venture team

Basic/Required:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Geology, Finance, other related technical field, or foreign equivalent
• 3 years of combined experience in upstream oil and gas.
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Spotfire and PowerBI
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft O365 applications: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Word

Preferred:

• 3 years of experience in unconventional resource plays or onshore development
• Intermediate level of proficiency with various industry databases and software (Spotfire, ValNav, Aeries, OFM, Enersight, Generwell, Wellview, DSO)
• Demonstrates strong technical database management best practices, recommends changes to improve existing processes, and implements data QA/QC methods
• Utilizes skills to develop new workflows and best practices to solve problems effectively
• High level of initiative, energy, and creativity
• Strong organizational skills – ability to prioritize activities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by holding others accountable and standing up for what is right
• Delivers positive results through realistic planning to accomplish goals
• Builds effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical

Apply Before: May 6, 2024

Sponsorship:

ConocoPhillips’ sponsorship for employment authorization in the U.S. is NOT available for this position.

EEO:

In the US, ConocoPhillips is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.