Reservoir / Senior Reservoir Engineer

Role & Responsibilities:

Implementation of Reservoir and Production Management System

• Utilize reservoir management standards and guidelines to enhance both NPV and hydrocarbon recovery
• Contribute to improving the quality and enriching the content of such documents as Field Development Plan, Surveillance Plan, Reservoir Uncertainty and Risk Management Plan

Modeling:

• Model Construction: Developing and building reservoir simulation models that accurately represent the geological and engineering aspects of the reservoir. 
• Reservoir Performance Prediction: Running reservoir simulation models to predict and analyze reservoir performance under different development scenarios, such as well placement, completion designs, and production strategies.
• History Matching: Performing history matching, which involves calibrating reservoir simulation models to match historical production and pressure data.
• Sensitivity Analysis: Conducting sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of various reservoir parameters, production strategies, or uncertainty factors on reservoir performance.

Production Forecasting:

• Short-term Forecast: Preparing a short-term production forecasts using in-house production technical analytical forecasting tool
• Long-term Forecast: Preparing a long-term production forecasts to management, internal and external regulatory bodies using reservoir simulation model
• Supplement forecasts with uncertainty and risk evaluation

Production Optimization:

• Production Monitoring and Analysis: Analysing reservoir performance data, production trends, pressure behaviour, and fluid properties to identify production challenges and recommend remedial actions.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize individual well performance, minimize losses / deferrals and optimize a field offtake rate by recommending a right balance of overall production levels

Data Acquisition:

• Formulate data acquisition, strategic surveillance and monitoring plans related to exploration, appraisal and development phases to ensure optimal development and depletion strategies
• Define annual surveillance plans and identify required planning activity and estimate a budget
• Steer the implementation of annual surveillance plans
• Oversee data interpretation

Generate and Share Learning:

• Facilitate collaboration and information sharing among multidisciplinary teams by overseeing a preparation of bi-annual Subsurface Field Reviews to share insights, gain understanding and disseminate learnings
• Participate in various reviews related to process, optimization, deferral management, etc.

Project Management and Leadership skills

• Direct the preparation of important documents related to reservoir, production and project management
• Provide support for well and project planning processes, including drilling operations, well evaluations and facility options, production planning and optimization.

Essential Requirements:

At least 5 years’ experience in reservoir engineering

MSc degree in Petroleum/ Reservoir Engineering, related applied science or engineering

Knowledge of analytical / numerical RE toolkit:

• PETEX IPM (Prosper, MBal, GAP)
• Numerical Reservoir Simulator (Intersect, Eclipse, Nexus or equivalent)
• Pressure Transient Analysis software (PIE or Sapphire)

Reservoir Modelling and Simulation: 

• Knowledge of fundamentals of numerical simulations
• Experience in updating reservoir simulation models and constructing sector models to investigate reservoir behaviour, evaluate development scenarios, and optimize production strategies.
• Experience in history matching (model calibration) of dynamic model

Reserves Estimation and Evaluation:

• Knowledge of reserves estimation methodologies, including volumetric calculations, material balance, decline curve analysis, and probabilistic methods. 
• Competence in evaluating reserves uncertainty, risk assessment, and compliance with regulatory

Surveillance:

• Experience in designing and implementing reservoir surveillance programs to monitor reservoir performance, including pressure monitoring, fluid sampling, and production data analysis.
• Knowledge of PTA techniques and industry software to analyze transient data
• General analytical skills to analyze production data, recognize trends, gain insight and contribute to the team’s reservoir understanding

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: 

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including geologists, production engineers, petro-physicists, and economists. 
• Integration of interpreted data and available knowledge to develop comprehensive reservoir understanding and optimize field development plans.

Technical Leadership and Mentoring: 

• Experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to junior reservoir engineers.
• Ability to transfer knowledge, support professional development, and promote best practices within the team.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with Contractors, Suppliers, co‐workers, outside agencies, business partners
• Ability to perform effectively in a team environment demonstrating; collaborative, cooperative, flexible, adaptable, respectful, and tactful personal characteristics
• Proficient in the use of MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
• Experience of working on site is beneficial
• Works comfortably under pressure and meets tight deadlines
• Strong decision-making and problem solving skills