Petroleum Engineering Team Lead at Nestoil Limited

Job Title: Petroleum Engineering Team Lead

Activities

• Working with other disciplines to carry out annual review of and updates to oil and gas reserves to ensure estimates are reliable.
• Providing timely requisite reports for statutory and business needs.
• Providing operational guidance to the activities of Reservoir Engineering, Geoscience, Well Engineering, G&G services and technical support.
• Managing production and cost forecasting for business planning.
• Supervising the planning of drilling activities for reservoir development and contribute in the preparation of the Drilling/Workover plans
• While working closely with other disciplines, carrying out petroleum engineering aspects of oil developments. This includes:
• Nodal analysis to estimate well production potentials.
• Material balance modelling.
• Reservoir simulation modelling.
• Reservoir fluid Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) modelling.
• Surface facility modelling.
• Working closely with earth scientists to understand geologic uncertainties and ensure they are incorporated in reservoir models.
• Selecting appropriate ranges of key uncertainties to achieve high confidence uncertainty ranges in forecast reservoir performance.
• Optimizing number and type of wells and completion types.
• Interfacing with facility and drilling engineers to evaluate alternative facility and well configurations.
• The use of economic models to estimate economic outcomes.
• Working with economic analyst to rank well drilling opportunities to ensure that the most profitable opportunities are drilled earliest when practical.
• Working with engineers working on oil assets to coordinate development of oil rims and gas caps in reservoirs with thin oil rims and large gas caps.
• Visiting field locations to become familiar with oil production and gas processing assets, and for other reasons related to responsibilities.
• Participating in formulating conceptual development plans of exploration opportunities, estimating the corresponding investment and production potential, and the resulting economic value.
• Preparing and updating Field Development Plans and participate in securing Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) approval.
• Meeting with officials of NUPRC as required to obtain well intervention, well drilling and project approvals. Provide information and clarity on projects, or any other issues that may arise
• Meeting with personnel of NNPC E&P Limited (NEPL) – our JV partners – as required to reach alignment on projects, or any other issues that may arise.
• Participating in the computation of flare numbers to ensure that they are accurate. Recommend the installation of meters where required.
• Participating in the joint venture budget review process with our partners.
• Ensuring timely compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Participating in reserves and production forecast reviews by consultants.
• Performing other duties as may be assigned by your manager.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering.
• Relevant professional qualification / membership
• Minimum of 10 years of subsurface oil and gas industry experience
• Material Balance Methods and Applications
• Integrated production modeling
• 3D Reservoir Simulation
• Field Development Planning
• Reserves Estimation and production forecasting
• Fluid PVT Analysis
• Decline Analysis
• Relative Permeability
• Production Forecasting
• Well test analysis and interpretation
• Basic understanding of geosciences
• Probabilistic Analysis of reservoir volumes
• Subsurface Uncertainty Analysis and Management.
• Familiarity with well and reservoir modelling software.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well organized with ability to perform amidst competing tight deadlines

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is Not Specified. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy

Website:
Official Job Website: https://nestoilgroup.com/