Miranda Jones – Technical Development Engineer, SM Energy
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EDUCATION:
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My favorite memories of my petroleum engineering education are the relationships that I built with the faculty at Texas A&M. They provided resources for my education, encouraged my love of learning and held me to a high standard. I have been mentored by the finest professionals in our industry and I'll value these relationships throughout my career.
I completed three summer internships and started full time with SM Energy. Recognizing my broad interests, SM Energy allowed me to gain experience on their business development and completions design teams. I was responsible for evaluating and presenting acreage trades and acquisition opportunities, and providing engineering support to the exploration team. I served as completions engineer on a multi-disciplinary team with reservoir engineers and geoscientists to build integrated hydraulic fracture and reservoir simulation models, and had hands-on time in drilling and completions field operations. All of this has been invaluable at this stage of my career.
I placed first in the Texas A&M and SPE-GCS student paper contests, presenting at the 2018 ATCE. I served as the Texas A&M SPE student chapter internal vice president and I'm also involved in the Permian Basin SPE section. The SPE-GCS scholarship provided me with a network of industry professionals who could answer my early career questions, and I would tell today’s scholarship students to remember that SPE-GCS is invested in you. It's your responsibility to pursue your academic education with vigor for a cause greater than yourself; treat this scholarship as a challenge to become an engineer worthy of their investment. Contact me at mirandajones809@gmail.com.