liquid fuel engineer

Code 2146.4

Liquid fuel engineers evaluate liquid fuel extraction sites. They design and develop methods for extracting liquid fuels from underneath the earth surface, these fuels include petroleums, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, non-petroleum fossil fuels, biodiesel and alcohols. They maximise the recovery of hydrocarbon at a minimum cost, pursuing minimal impact on the environment.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • biodiesel
  • alcohol fuels
  • fossil fuels
  • natural gas
  • environmental legislation
  • well testing operations
  • petroleum
  • chemistry

Skills and competences

  • control pumping operations in petroleum production
  • monitor extraction logging operations
  • design natural gas processing systems
  • design well flow systems
  • manage environmental impact
  • manage well interaction
  • manage fluid production in gas
  • manage production fluid in oil production
  • report well results
  • determine flow rate enhancement
  • prepare scientific reports
  • prepare extraction proposals
  • troubleshoot
  • select well equipment
  • supervise well operations
  • liaise with well test engineers

Transversal competences

  • address problems critically
  • interpret extraction data
  • mathematics

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences