Petroleum Engineers

Architecture and Engineering Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 17-2171 · 244 skills

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Specify and supervise well modification and stimulation programs to maximize oil and gas recovery.
Monitor production rates, and plan rework processes to improve production.
Maintain records of drilling and production operations.

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NVIDIA/GenerativeAIExamples

Parse, modify, validate, and patch simulator input files. Use when working with reservoir simulation input files, testing scenarios, or validating simulation configurations. This implementation supports reference format (.DATA); other simulators use different extensions (e.g., .afi, .DAT). Supports natural language modifications, keyword patching, and syntax validation.

mooring-analysis

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Mooring system design, analysis, and assessment for floating offshore platforms

neqsim-autonomous-investigation

Autonomous investigation loop for operational and engineering anomalies — turns an agent from 'told what to look for' into 'discovers relationships and hypotheses on its own'. USE WHEN: solving a PEPR action, root-cause, or operational study where the symptom, driver, or important relationships are NOT given up front. Runs an observe -> hypothesize -> predict -> test -> discriminate loop, using neqsim.process.diagnostics.RelationshipGraph for unsupervised lead-lag relationship discovery across historian tags, then hands the discovered relationships to neqsim-root-cause-analysis. Anchors on neqsim.process.diagnostics classes.

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NVIDIA/GenerativeAIExamples

Parse, modify, validate, and patch simulator input files. Use when working with reservoir simulation input files, testing scenarios, or validating simulation configurations. This implementation supports reference format (.DATA); other simulators use different extensions (e.g., .afi, .DAT). Supports natural language modifications, keyword patching, and syntax validation.

NVIDIA/GenerativeAIExamples

Plot and compare simulation summary metrics. Use when visualizing time-series results, comparing multiple cases, or analyzing production performance. Supports single and multi-metric plots, case comparisons, and automatic metric keyword resolution.

NVIDIA/GenerativeAIExamples

Read and analyze simulation binary output files. Use when extracting summary data, grid properties, or running flow diagnostics (time-of-flight, tracer, allocation, F-Phi, Lorenz) from completed simulations.

mooring-analysis

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Mooring system design, analysis, and assessment for floating offshore platforms

neqsim-autonomous-investigation

Autonomous investigation loop for operational and engineering anomalies — turns an agent from 'told what to look for' into 'discovers relationships and hypotheses on its own'. USE WHEN: solving a PEPR action, root-cause, or operational study where the symptom, driver, or important relationships are NOT given up front. Runs an observe -> hypothesize -> predict -> test -> discriminate loop, using neqsim.process.diagnostics.RelationshipGraph for unsupervised lead-lag relationship discovery across historian tags, then hands the discovered relationships to neqsim-root-cause-analysis. Anchors on neqsim.process.diagnostics classes.

neqsim-capability-map

Structured inventory of NeqSim's capabilities by engineering discipline. USE WHEN: checking what NeqSim can do, planning implementations, assessing gaps for engineering tasks, or routing work to the right agent. Covers thermodynamics, process equipment, PVT, standards, mechanical design, flow assurance, safety, and economics.

neqsim-ccs-hydrogen

CO2 capture, transport, storage (CCS) and hydrogen systems patterns for NeqSim. USE WHEN: modeling CO2 pipelines, injection wells, impurity effects on phase behavior, CO2 dense phase transport, hydrogen blending, electrolysis, or any CCS/H2 value chain analysis. Covers CO2 phase behavior, impurity management, well integrity, and hydrogen systems.

neqsim-consequence-analysis

Quantitative consequence analysis for oil & gas hazards — jet fire, pool fire, vapour cloud explosion (VCE), BLEVE, Gaussian plume and heavy-gas dispersion, probit-based fatality probabilities, individual and societal risk roll-up. USE WHEN: a task requires fire-radiation contours, dispersion to LFL/IDLH/ERPG, BLEVE thermal/missile assessment, or QRA-style risk integration of multiple release outcomes. Anchors on neqsim.process.safety.fire, neqsim.process.safety.dispersion, neqsim.process.safety.qra.

neqsim-field-development

Field development workflows, concept selection, and integrated project evaluation using NeqSim. USE WHEN: performing field development studies, concept screening, tieback analysis, production forecasting, or integrated field planning. Covers the full lifecycle from discovery through operations with NeqSim's field development classes.

neqsim-pid-process-operations

Bidirectional P&ID/NeqSim workflow. USE WHEN: understanding P&ID symbols, converting P&ID topology into NeqSim simulations, generating governed DEXPI engineering packages from ProcessSystem or ProcessModel, linking tags to historian data, evaluating valve/equipment changes, or preparing water-hammer and blowdown/flare handoffs.

neqsim-platform-modeling

Production platform process modeling patterns for NeqSim. USE WHEN: building full topside process models for oil & gas platforms (FPSO, fixed, semi-sub) from design documents, P&IDs, or operational data. Covers fluid creation with TBP fractions, multi-stage separation with recycles, recompression trains with compressor curves and anti-surge, export/injection compression, oil stabilization, scrubber liquid recovery, iteration strategies, and structured result extraction. Derived from 15+ production NCS platform models.

neqsim-production-optimization

Production optimization, bottleneck analysis, decline modeling, decline-curve history matching (Arps + Duong), reservoir material balance surveillance (OGIP/OOIP, drive indices, aquifer influx), and IOR/EOR screening with NeqSim. USE WHEN: optimizing production rates, identifying facility bottlenecks, forecasting production profiles, fitting decline curves to production history, estimating reserves from pressure/production data, analyzing gas lift allocation, evaluating IOR/EOR options, or running multi-scenario production comparisons.