Production Engineer

Job Snapshot
Location:	Worldwide
Employee Type:	Full-Time
Industry:	Oil and Gas
Manages Others:	No
Job Type:	Engineer
Education:	Bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering or related field
Travel:	Yes
Salary:	Varies by region and experience level

Summary

Facilities engineers design and implement all of the supplemental facilities necessary to the separation, processing, and transportation of oil and natural gas. They work with production engineers on all of the surface processing equipment for a field. They design and build natural gas processing plants to remove impurities from the gas and prepare it for transportation. They design and build pipelines to move oil, gas, and produced water around within a field, to processing or disposal facilities, and to the point of sale. They also work on large interstate transportation pipelines for oil, petroleum products, and natural gas.

Offshore platforms are designed by facility engineers. These enormous structures are built at shipyards and then must be transported to the field where they will be deployed. Offshore facilities must be designed to withstand heavy seas and hurricanes, protect the hundreds of personnel who may work there, and assure that all drilling and production operations can take place with the utmost safety. The platform design must consider the number of wells that will be needed for the field, type and volume of hydrocarbons to be processed, transportation of the oil or gas to shore, and possible future reuse or abandonment. Designing an offshore platform is one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges that a facility engineer can encounter.

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