• Application Deadline:
• Position: Principal Reservoir Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 13 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  

Purpose

• To lead the reservoir engineering function within the Petroleum Engineering Department.


• Participate and oversee reservoir engineering involvement for all assets and projects from initial opportunity identification to cessation of production.


• Manage reporting lines and mentor junior staff


• Deputy to Head of Petroleum Engineering

Major Responsibility Areas

• Quality check, designing, supervising plans and results for pressure transient tests.


• Quality check / preparing appraisal programs for reservoir engineering data (PVT, RCAL / SCAL, pressure data, well tests, MDT, etc.)


• Reviewing / quality checking data acquisition reports and lab reports from contractors – quality check samples & results, extract properties required for reservoir engineering studies


• Quality check predictions of production performance for approval of well proposals


• Lead efforts to minimize / mitigate subsurface risk


• Proposing cost-effective reservoir monitoring and surveillance programs


• Quality check / supervise or perform reservoir simulation studies to test development concepts / recovery schemes and optimize recoveries


• Quality check / supervise or perform reservoir surveillance analysis & make recommendations for optimization and proper management of reservoirs


• Quality check and review written reports of reservoir performance, including explaining and presenting results


• Develop and quality check reservoir performance predictions, including decline analysis and material balance on producing assets


• Prepare and quality check forecasts for business plan and monthly production outlook


• Review and quality check deterministic and probabilistic estimates of in-place hydrocarbon volume


• Lead reservoir related due diligence on potential farm-ins and acquisitions


• Estimate and review reserves / resources associated with opportunities


• Capacity to act as technical focal point for commercial initiatives


• Capacity to coordinate annual independent reserves evaluation and reporting


• Establish best practices for Reservoir Engineering team


• Responsible for documenting Reservoir Engineering discipline procedures

Job Specification

• First Degree in Petroleum Engineering or other Engineering degree with appropriate professional experience, required


• Master’s in Petroleum or Reservoir Engineering is a plus


• At least 13 years of experience as Reservoir Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry with a high degree of competency in the core Reservoir Engineering subjects which includes but is not limited to: reservoir studies, estimating reserves, well test analysis, rock and fluid properties, decline curve analysis & production forecasting, well & reservoir management, field development planning and production support activities


• Good understanding of other technical and non-technical disciplines with proven track record of leading multidisciplinary studies / projects


• Experience using standard Reservoir Engineering software, particularly: OFM, MBAL / PROSPER / GAP, Eclipse / Petrel-RE, Ecrin / Sapphire


• Strong computer skills


• High skill level user of MS Office software: Word, Excel & PowerPoint


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation skills


• Management experience


• Solid analytical skills: problem-solving and critical thinking


• Networking and relationship management


• Technical writing


• Project management skills


• Business performance monitoring and reporting


• Strong exposure to good HSE experience, practice, and certification.

Core Competencies:

Reservoir Engineering:

• Reservoir Data Acquisition


• Fluid Properties


• Rock Properties


• Pressure Transient Analysis


• Determination of Initial Reservoir Conditions


• Transport in Porous Media


• Material Balance Analysis


• Reservoir Modeling


• Decline Analysis/ Production Forecasting


• Oil and Gas Reserves Estimation


• Reservoir Surveillance


• Well Performance


• Field Development Planning


• Integrated Reservoir Characterization


• Field/Asset Management


• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Methods


• Heavy Oil

Technical Management:

• Oil & Gas Industry Dynamics


• Field/Project Management


• Field Development


• Petroleum Economics


• Negotiation Techniques


• Relationship Management


• HSE - Basic


• Effective Communication


• Soft/People Skills.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• Direct Reports: Reservoir Engineer III & Senior Reservoir Engineer, Lead Reservoir Engineer


• Technical mentorship of Interns, Graduate Trainees, Reservoir Engineer I and II.