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Market evidence report — petroleum-engineer
Source: 35 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 35), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 22 | 63 % |
| senior | 5 | 14 % |
| n/a | 4 | 11 % |
| junior | 3 | 9 % |
| lead | 1 | 3 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARIES | 6 | 17 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 6 | 17 % |
| 3 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 4 | 11 % |
| 4 | Microsoft Word | 4 | 11 % |
| 5 | Spotfire | 4 | 11 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 14 | 40 % |
| 2 | reservoir engineering | 9 | 26 % |
| 3 | production forecasting | 8 | 23 % |
| 4 | decline curve analysis | 3 | 9 % |
| 5 | economic analysis | 3 | 9 % |
| 6 | economic evaluation | 3 | 9 % |
| 7 | economic modeling | 3 | 9 % |
| 8 | field development planning | 3 | 9 % |
| 9 | petroleum engineering | 3 | 9 % |
| 10 | production engineering | 3 | 9 % |
| 11 | production optimization | 3 | 9 % |
| 12 | reservoir simulation | 3 | 9 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enhanced oil recovery (EOR) | 3 | 9 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 3 | 9 % |
| 2 | report preparation | 3 | 9 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 35 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
35 ads.
Top hard skills:
- data analysis — 40 % (14 ads)
- reservoir engineering — 26 % (9 ads)
- production forecasting — 23 % (8 ads)
- decline curve analysis — 9 % (3 ads)
- economic analysis — 9 % (3 ads)
- economic evaluation — 9 % (3 ads)
- economic modeling — 9 % (3 ads)
- field development planning — 9 % (3 ads)
- petroleum engineering — 9 % (3 ads)
- production engineering — 9 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- ARIES — 17 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 17 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 11 % (4 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 11 % (4 ads)
- Spotfire — 11 % (4 ads)
- CMG — 6 % (2 ads)
- ComboCurve — 6 % (2 ads)
- Eclipse — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 63 % · senior 14 % · n/a 11 % · junior 9 % · lead 3 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Reservoir Engineer | 8 |
| Petroleum Geologist | 3 |
| Petroleum Engineer | 2 |
| 2026-2027 Petroleum Engineer - Full Time | 1 |
| 2026-2027 Petroleum Engineer Intern (previous intern) | 1 |
| Alaska Petroleum Engineer - Field & Compliance | 1 |
| Experienced Reservoir Simulation Engineer | 1 |
| Field Petroleum Engineer: Accelerated Training & Growth | 1 |
| Field-Driven Petroleum Engineer: Fast-Track to Leadership | 1 |
| Lead Petroleum Engineer | 1 |
| Lead Production Engineer - Oil and Gas Optimization | 1 |
| Petroleum Engineer - IOR | 1 |
| Petroleum Engineer - Technical Due Diligence (Remote) | 1 |
| Petroleum Engineer at US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Jefferson, LA | 1 |
| PETROLEUM ENGINEER I-II | 1 |
| Petroleum Engineer: Training Path to Upstream Leadership | 1 |
| Reservoir Engineer / Geomechanics Lead - Machina | 1 |
| Reservoir Engineer/Data Scientist | 1 |
| Senior Reservoir Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Reservoir Engineer – Growth & Optimization | 1 |
| Sr. Reservoir Engineer - Reservoir Characterization | 1 |
| Sr. Reservoir-Corporate Planning Engineer | 1 |
| Subsurface & Reservoir Engineer | 1 |
| Supervisory Petroleum Engineer | 1 |
| Upstream Petroleum Engineer | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.