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Job of The Week

• Engineering Specialist II / Oil & Gas Field Operations - SMP/IIJA - Austin
  

  Primary responsibilities include advanced-level technical and administrative monitoring and review of plugging, salvage, and associated routine site cleanup operations for the State Managed Plugging Program to ensure the isolation of productive zones, potential flow zones, corrosive zones, and protection of the State Usable Quality Waters for orphaned wells plugged under IIJA federal funding.  May also be responsible for collecting additional data related to plugging activities as required by IIJA federal grant.

  This position offers the opportunity to learn up-to-date oil and gas operations and procedures, regulatory well plugging requirements, well plugging techniques, and equipment. This role will also enhance skills in identifying downhole well production equipment, the associated usage, and removal procedures and will enhance skills needed to solve complex well drilling and plugging problems.  Work is performed under the general supervision of the Assistant Director of Field Operations

  
  
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Regulatory

• Form CI-D and Form CI-X Online Filing Requirement (08/03/2022)
• Recycling Treated Domestic Wastewater and Mobile Drinking Water Treatment System Wastewaters (07/18/2022)
• Notice to Propane Licensees: Amendments to Chapter 9, LP-Gas Safety Rules, Adopted (07/15/2022)
• RRC Adopts Revisions to Form P-16, Acreage Designation (06/30/2022)
• RRC Hosts Workshop for Rulemaking Related to Weather Emergency Preparedness Standards (06/30/2022)
• RRC Accepting Comments on New Weatherization Rule (06/28/2022)
• RRC to Host Public Comment Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Chapter 5 Rules
  and EPA Application for Enforcement Primacy of Class VI UIC Program (06/09/2022)
• RRC Accepting Comments on Proposed LPG Form Amendments (06/08/2022)
• RRC Commissioners Assess More Than $1 Million in Penalties (06/08/2022)
• 2022 RRC Regulatory Conference – Registration Open (06/01/2022)
• Form H-10, Annual Disposal/Injection Well Monitoring Report - Online Filing (05/20/2022)
• Save the Dates — RRC Regulatory Conference: Oil & Gas and Pipeline Safety (04/28/2022)
• Employees Required to Hold Their RRC-Issued Certification Cards (04/07/2022)
• Cybersecurity Best Practices for Critical Pipeline Infrastructure (04/01/2022)
• Introducing CERTS, the RRC’s New Alternative Fuels Safety Event Registration System! (04/01/2022)

Data & Information

• Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics for March 2022 (06/14/2022)
• Texas Drilling Permit and Completion Statistics for May 2022 (06/03/2022)
• Railroad Commission Takes Transparency a Step Further with New Flaring/Venting Database (02/16/2022)
• U.S. Department of Energy -U.S. Oil And Natural Gas: Providing Energy Security and Supporting Our Quality of Life (09/2020)

Media

• Marshall Mine Wins RRC’s Texas Coal Mining Reclamation Award (05/05/2022)
• RRC Investigation Does Not Indicate High H2S Levels at Boehmer Lake (04/08/2022)
• RRC Implements First-Ever Operator-Led Plan to Reduce Seismicity in West Texas (03/07/2022)
• RRC’s Commissioners Approve Financing Order to Keep Monthly Gas Utility Bills Low (02/08/2022)
• Year in Review Publication Highlights Railroad Commission’s 130th Year (12/29/2021)
• Texas Establishes First of Its Kind Designation of Natural Gas Facilities for Energy Emergencies (11/30/2021)
• RRC Earns National Environmental Award for Well Plugging Project at Padre Island National Seashore (11/08/2021)