What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reservoir Engineer position at Danos, LLC?
Overview
The Reservoir Engineer will support and advance unconventional asset development. This role focuses on reservoir characterization, production forecasting, economic evaluation, and development optimization within tight and unconventional reservoirs. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical skills, hands-on basin experience, and a collaborative mindset to work closely with geoscience and development teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support unconventional reservoir development efforts, including tight oil and gas reservoirs
- Build and maintain type curves and tight curves for development planning and performance evaluation
- Perform production forecasting, decline curve analysis, and reserves estimation
- Conduct economic analysis and value optimization for development scenarios
- Collaborate closely with Geoscience, Operations, and Development teams to integrate subsurface and production insights
- Evaluate development strategies including well spacing, completion optimization, and inventory maturation
- Support asset planning by providing technical recommendations and risk assessments
- Review and analyze historical well performance to improve future development results
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering (preferred) or related engineering discipline
- 5–10 years of reservoir engineering experience
- Delaware Basin and/or Permian Basin experience strongly preferred
- Familiarity with unconventional shale plays and development strategies within these basins
- Experience in ComboCurve, Spotfire, and INVARIS preferred
- Demonstrated experience working in unconventional reservoirs
- Strong understanding of reservoir fundamentals, production behavior, and economic drivers
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to cross‑disciplinary teams
- Must be able to meet all conditional job offer requirements.