Wellsite Responsibility in West Texas

[dotbot]

How many wellsites should I expect to be responsible for in West Texas? If I'm the only engineer, can I delegate some of the workload to some of the other services guys?

 

[miningman]

I've always found it very difficult to be in two places at once. So the answer to your question boils down to " Does your definition of responsible mean being responsible for every single activity on site 24 /7" or does it mean "sitting in an office somewhere and monitoring say six computer screens at once"

Its a rather important distinction.

 

[sraesttam]

The company I have worked for supposedly has a policy that there is one rig supervisor for each pulling unit. In reality - there are often 2-3 rigs per supervisor.

I have heard about companies having approximately 100 wells / production engineer when the wells are new. Though, some companies are running in the 600-1000 wells / production engineer range.

I expected the higher well count / engineer are for fields where the conditions are more stable and not where there are lots of artificial lift changes and workover operations needed.