Weatherford wants PETROLEUM ENGINEER

SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE –

• Ensure that that Health, Safety, Environment and Quality are the responsibility of all employees.
• Demonstrate effective Safety leadership at all times to enhance the organization’s commitment to safety performance.

QUALITY –

• Demonstrate a personal commitment to Quality & Service Delivery.
• Applying Weatherford, and where appropriate Client Company’s, Quality Policy and Management Systems.
• Perform reliability and failure analysis of well and surface network under supervision to establish root cause analysis of failure and suggest mitigation techniques for future operations.

OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY –

• Perform production analysis and optimize production under surface and reservoir constraints with minimal supervision:
• Perform material balance calculations, pressure transient analysis, and production analysis
• Build IPR based on well productivity, determine operating point base on tubing performance curve
• Generate model inputs necessary for reservoir simulation such as VLP curve, surface or downhole pressure constraints
• Perform nodal analysis, tubing lift calculations, tubing lift evaluation without supervision
• Design, analyse and optimize artificial lift systems including but not limited to gas lift, ESP, rod lift, jet pump etc.
• Identify production issues caused by near wellbore issues e.g. skin or permeability degradation, sand production, wellbore issues e.g. liquid loading, hydrates, paraffin, asphaltenes and recommend solutions to assure optimal flow
• Build black oil, extended black oil, compositional, EOR and thermal models for well and surface network
• Perform routine QA/QC on all production and completion data relevant to building production models
• Evaluate surface production facilities impact on short-term, mid-term and long-term field performance by:
• Building surface network models incorporating wells, pipelines, pumps, separators and delivery nodes
• Defining forecast scenarios incorporating reservoir deliverability constraints, flow capacity, processing capacity and economic constraints
• Performing surface network optimization under production constraints, delivery requirements, lift gas availability, injection water availability or produced liquid handling
• Identifying bottlenecks and flow issues impacting performance
• Understand Field Services Management protocols to create, modify, monitor, close activities. Generate and Q/C post jobs reports.
• Perform material balance (MB), pressure transient analysis (PTA) and rate transient analysis (RTA) studies under supervision.
• Understand DOF concepts and apply under supervision to:
• Configure and trouble shoot a SCADA system incorporating RTU’s, gauges
• Understand configuration requirements and communication protocols necessary to acquire data from field
• Understand data flow between SCADA and production optimization platform to monitor real time production operations
• Perform flow assurance studies under supervision.
• Perform risk and economic analysis, under supervision.
• Demonstrate basic awareness of additional relevant technical domains, such as: Geology, Petrophysics, Geophysics and Production Engineering; and the integration of results with other technology, such as Drilling, Logging by:
• Performing qualitative interpretation of petrophysical inputs and reservoir properties
• Providing production, pressure, lift characteristics data necessary for history match
• Evaluating output from reservoir simulation for history match, conformance of forecast constraint to field conditions
• Make decisions within established guidelines, seeking advice of senior team members on new or unfamiliar challenges or situations falling outside of normal procedures.
• Work independently or as part of a team on assigned projects as instructed, complying with verbal and written instructions and procedures.
•  Produce technical reports and presentations under supervision.
• Maintain membership of relevant professional societies. Participate in presentations to local technical societies and remain current on industry regulations and developments.
• Work assignments carried out to the highest quality level.
• Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor within the physical constraints of the job.

CLIENT & COMMUNICATION –

•  Meet regularly with clients, either accompanied by senior team members or sales staff, or independently.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT –

• Participate in training and development through classroom courses, eLearning, and on-the-job projects with senior team members.
• Provide technical guidance to junior professionals.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering/ relevant engineering from a recognized university.
• Minimum5-10+ years related experience.
• Computer Literacy in MS Windows plus basic desktop applications.
• Able to work independently with remote and infrequent supervision.
• Able to provide oversight to small teams of professional and technical members.
• Proficiency in industry leading Production Engineering Software.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary team to define objectives and operational guidelines for defining a cross domains solution.
• Consulting experience related to design, implementation or monitoring of a digital oil field solution.
• Experience evaluating performance of wells under natural flow and artificial lift.
• Experience with industry standard software’s such as iDO, Wellflo, PanSystem, ReO, Gas lift design, ESP design, Rod Pump design.
• Field experience in production operations.
• Ability to lead team to deliver objectives and operational guidelines for a cross domains solution.
• Assisting with Project management for defining activities, determining resources and monitoring project timeline for a successful delivery of multi-disciplinary solution as specified in statement of work or scope.
• Advanced functional knowledge of all Weatherford standard software programs required for the specific technical domains.
• Functional knowledge of all Weatherford standard software programs required for the specific technical domains.