Reservoir Engineer, Well Stimulation Support

The Well Stimulation Support Reservoir Engineer will lead the interface between the reservoir engineering and completions engineering/operations teams.

Fervo’s Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. To accomplish that goal, Fervo has developed groundbreaking technology solutions that have advanced the state-of-the-art of geothermal energy decades ahead of schedule, including the world’s most successful commercial enhanced geothermal system completed in 2023. Fervo has raised over $2 billion from leading investors and has secured a multi-billion dollar project pipeline to meet the world’s growing need for 24/7 carbon free energy. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, investors, and developers in making geothermal a key pillar of our climate-friendly energy future.

Description

Fervo is working to build the most cost-effective, repeatable geothermal power plants in the world. Delivering on this mission requires operational excellence across every function — including the production engineering systems, workflows, and technical standards that ensure our geothermal assets operate safely, reliably, and efficiently as we scale.

The Well Stimulation Support Reservoir Engineer will lead the interface between the reservoir engineering and completions engineering/operations teams. Responsibilities include: well completion and stimulation treatment design, planning, and evaluation, reservoir engineering analysis to support completions design decisions and improve capital efficiency across Fervo’s growing project portfolio, and planning, executing, and analyzing technology and completions design trials. Note that due to the operational nature of this role, flexibility to accommodate occasional calls outside standard working hours is expected. This position will report to the Asset Reservoir Engineering Lead in the Geoblock Factory.

Responsibilities

Data Analysis & Interpretation

• Interpret stimulation data (e.g., step-down tests and ISIPs) to inform completion design recommendations
• Analyze production and injection data, including pressure transient data, rate-transient data, diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) data, and tracers
• Analyze offset well data during stimulation operations
• Conduct uncertainty quantification studies for reservoir field diagnostic tests and well performance

Field Operations Support

• Lead stimulation data collection planning, and analyze real-time data to inform design changes
• Lead lookbacks and reviews of stimulation, well, and reservoir performance to support short learning cycles and completion design updates
• Develop and implement data acquisition, stimulation trials, and well testing programs for Fervo field projects; develop well testing procedures and analyze field data
• Provide analysis of field data and collaborate with cross functional teams to conduct model optimization studies, driving well enhancements for future development
• Support reservoir management strategies and development plans with analysis of field data
• Provide input into economic modeling in support of asset plans and development scenarios
• Prepare comprehensive technical evaluations with recommendations
• Participate in industry meetings and conferences

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of engineering experience in hydraulic fracturing in the unconventional oil and gas or geothermal industries
• 1+ years of field experience in oil and gas, geothermal, or similar operations
• Knowledge of geomechanics and thermodynamics
• Knowledge of techniques related to multistage hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells, including perforation design, cluster spacing, stage sequencing, fluid and proppant loading, etc.
• Experience in treatment and pressure data evaluation and troubleshooting
• Experience in data analytics with Spotfire or Power BI
• Willing to travel up to 20% for fieldwork and occasional visits to other Fervo offices.
• Able to accommodate occasional calls related to operations outside of normal business hours

Preferred

• Proficient in Python programming for data analysis
• Experience in well intervention techniques such as workovers, coil tubing, wireline, and snubbing
• Experience in executing and evaluating trials of new technology or designs
• Experience with project management and developing technical analysis in support of asset development and engineering design decisions

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX, with growing offices in Golden, CO, Reno, NV, and Oakland, CA, and Salt Lake City, UT. This position will be eligible for some hybrid work flexibility, but regular in-office presence at theGolden orHouston office will be required.

Fervo provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability, flexible paid time off, and paid parental leave. Additionally, Fervo offers an incentive stock options program, a bonus incentive program, and a 401(k) plan with an employer match.

Fervo Energy is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. Expected Salary: $115,000-$180,000 based on Colorado locality, pay in other locations may vary.

Fervo Energy reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Fervo Energy commercializes technology to own, develop, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future. As a 24/7, reliable clean energy resource, geothermal energy has a major role to play in the future electric grid and Fervo Energy’s key innovations bring a full suite of modern technology to make geothermal cost competitive. Fervo’s innovations include technologies such as advanced computational models, horizontal drilling, and distributed fiber optic sensing that we have developed with partners including Schlumberger, ARPA-E, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fervo is supported through Cyclotron Road, the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.