Petroleum / Reservoir Engineer Consultant
Reference: 937277
Location: London, UK
Type: 12-month contract, Flexible working - 2 days a week in London HQ
Sector: Oil and Gas
Description
Our client is global E&P Operator, headquartered in London. They are recruiting for a Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer responsible for providing support across global assets in production and under appraisal.
The Role
The Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer will be responsible for providing production well management, reservoir surveillance, reservoir performance interpretation, production forecasting, well planning and reservoir studies on global assets.
Key Responsibilities
Provide expert advice, guidance, and support on integrated production modelling and individual modelling components. This will include considering advanced issues such as production backout on sister assets sharing facilities, product yields, achieving production targets in energy terms, etc. The candidate will be required to provide hand-on work on integrated production modelling.
Provide expert PE/RE support to both well management activities and interpretation of production data to update existing reservoir modelling, constrain production forecasts and provide input into redefining future drilling campaigns. This includes both 1) regular collaboration with field operations teams to ensure optimum well management and collection of quality surveillance data, and 2) contribute to ongoing integrated subsurface evaluations of all producing and appraisal reservoir’s to define in-place and recoverable hydrocarbon volumes.
Provide expert petroleum engineering support to mature producing PPA asset, with particular focus on maintaining the integrity and safe operation of existing producing wells and constraining production forecasting.
The candidate should be regarded as a software superuser covering the range of in-house software being utilised (CMG, Resolve, Integrated Production Modelling (IPM-Petex), Propser, MBAL, GAP, IPM-Openserver, Kappa-Saphir, OFM, PI systems). A key role will be to support efforts to automate and speed-up workflows. Therefore, scripting knowledge with VBA, Openserver, Python is preferred.
In addition, this position will also provide functional advise and support to field appraisal and development planning work on recent discoveries close to main operated producing assets onshore.
This role will report to the Senior Manager Developments but will consult on a day-to-day basis with the Petroleum Engineering Lead and Reservoir Engineering Lead. Beyond this, the role will work closely across all subsurface staff within Development, Subsurface, Exploration and Well Delivery teams located in the London and global offices. The role will also work closely with operational the Reservoir Management and Subsurface Team based at the operational base in country. Given the geographic spread of the upstream subsurface and wells teams there is an expectation that the incumbent of this role will need to travel periodically to the field base in country.
Lead subsurface dynamic modelling efforts for individual reservoirs, including integrated production forecasts from multiple reservoirs. This will include CMG, Resolve, IPM and associated workflows.
Develop workflows to ensure adequate post processing of production forecasts, e.g. backout effects on sister assets sharing production facilities, , achieving production targets in energy terms, LPG production etc. This will require advanced knowledge of scripting tool and expert PVT understanding.
Responsible for interpretation of reservoir production data and ensure integration with subsurface reservoir teams to deliver updated reservoir descriptions and volume and forecast estimations. Expertise in well test analysis will be required.
Hands-on petroleum engineering work on new well and workover designs for projects at various stages of maturity (exploration, appraisal, development and production).
Build and/or maintain integrated production models
Provide strong leadership in integration across all subsurface disciplines.
Provide support to the functional leads on coaching and capability uplift.
Documenting, presenting and archiving of results of technical work.
Familiarise with policies on SHE, Risk Management and Major Hazards.
Familiarise with work and be aware of all associated risks for People, the Environment, Office areas with an understanding of health (e.g. Covid responsibilities) and wellbeing
Report any incidents, near misses, hazards (unsafe acts/situations) and improvement suggestions such as safety moments.
In the UK and globally, our Client now operates a flexible working policy whereby staff are able to work the majority of their time from home, with on average 2 days a week spent in the London office. Given that, the candidate would still be expected to be in the London office up to 2 days per week (schedule/amount as agreed with manager).
Key Requirements
Skills & Experience
Job Specific Skills and Knowledge:
Ideally educated to a post graduate degree level in reservoir or petroleum engineering (MSc) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Proven seniority and oil and gas experience ideally gained in an operating environment
Advanced level of understanding of both reservoir and petroleum engineering principles and concepts and their integration with other subsurface (geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering), well engineering and surface engineering functions.
Expert in both analytical and simulation based dynamic modelling techniques. Expert level expertise in integrated production modelling required.
Demonstrated experience with automating workflows and scripting in various languages / tools (VBA, Python, Openserver, etc.) will be required.
Experience in concept completion design, sand control, geomechanics, well interventions, well testing is highly desirable.
Substantial experience across the full upstream value chain, from exploration, appraisal, development, mature production and abandonment. Ideally across multiple reservoir and fluid types and covering both field studies and operational activities.
Track record of providing both peer assist support to and peer review of both petroleum engineering and multi-functional integrated studies.
General Capabilities:
A strong team player with good communications skills.
Self-motivated leadership skills to manage and complete projects.
Independent and able to work with minimal supervision.
Preference for the candidate to be based in the south east UK to enable regular visits to London office as agreed.
Available for occasional travel to South Africa (2 x a year)
Problem solver willing to consider new solutions and to lead discussions on adoption of non-traditional solutions.
Desire to learn, develop capabilities and take on greater responsibilities with a “can do” attitude.
Due to current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you are to consider your application unsuccessful at this time.