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Occidental Petroleum

Produces oil and gas and develops carbon capture

Workover & Completions Specialist

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCarlsbad, NM, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Extensive field experience in workover, completions, well servicing, production operations, or well intervention.
  • Strong working knowledge of workover rigs, completion equipment, fishing tools, tubing operations, pressure-control equipment, artificial lift, wireline, and coiled-tubing operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex field and downhole problems.
  • Strong understanding of well integrity and safe well-servicing practices.
  • Ability to read and interpret well schematics, completion programs, equipment specifications, and operational procedures.
  • Experience coordinating multiple contractors and service companies during active well operations.
  • Ability to manage changing operational conditions and priorities in a fast-paced field environment.
  • Strong computer and reporting skills, including experience with well-operations reporting systems.
  • Willingness and ability to work in field environments and support operations outside normal working hours when operationally required.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and oversee daily workover, completion, well intervention, and remedial operations.
  • Provide field-level technical support from initial job planning through execution and final well handover.
  • Review workover and completion programs and ensure field activities are executed in accordance with the approved program.
  • Support operations involving tubing, casing, artificial lift, fishing, milling, cleanouts, stimulation, wireline, coiled tubing, pressure control, and well integrity.
  • Troubleshoot downhole and surface operational problems and work with engineering and service providers to develop practical solutions.
  • Coordinate rig crews, third-party service companies, equipment, materials, and logistics required for well operations.
  • Monitor daily operations and identify opportunities to improve safety, efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
  • Verify that appropriate equipment, procedures, and resources are available before critical operations begin.
  • Participate in pre-job planning, risk assessments, safety meetings, and operational reviews.
  • Maintain communication between field personnel, engineering, production operations, leadership, and contractors.
  • Track operational progress, downtime, equipment performance, costs, and significant well events.
  • Document daily activities and maintain accurate well-service records in applicable reporting systems.
  • Assist with troubleshooting fishing operations, stuck pipe, tubing failures, equipment failures, well-control concerns, and other unplanned downhole conditions.
  • Support installation, repair, troubleshooting, and optimization of artificial-lift systems, including gas lift and other production equipment.
  • Ensure contractors and service providers meet established safety, operational, and performance expectations.
  • Participate in post-job reviews and capture lessons learned to improve future workover and completion programs.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce nonproductive time and improve rig, service-company, and overall well-delivery performance.
  • Promote a strong field safety culture with an emphasis on hazard identification, stop-work responsibility, and disciplined execution.
  • Deliver safe, technically sound, and cost-effective workover and completion operations while maximizing well reliability, production performance, and asset value.

Desired Qualifications

  • Significant experience with Permian Basin workover and completion operations.
  • Experience with artificial-lift installations and troubleshooting.
  • Experience supervising complex fishing and well-recovery operations.
  • Familiarity with cost tracking, operational performance metrics, and nonproductive-time reduction.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring field personnel and developing less-experienced technical staff.
  • Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.

About the Company

Occidental Petroleum

Produces oil and gas and develops carbon capture

Occidental Petroleum produces and sells oil and natural gas to energy customers in the United States and overseas. Its portfolio spans the Permian Basin and the Rockies, offshore Gulf of America fields, and the Al Hosn Gas project in the United Arab Emirates. It earns revenue from selling these commodities, while its marketing business also buys third-party crude to make use of pipeline and export terminal capacity. Its subsidiaries 1PointFive and Carbon Engineering develop direct air capture technology and industrial projects to remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it underground. Founded in 1920, Occidental is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1920

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