Senior Production Technologist at Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc

Overall Purpose of the Job:
The incumbent will provide very strong support to the identification of production improvement opportunities and production optimization studies in conjunction with the reservoir engineer, petrophysicist and production geologist in the asset development team. The incumbent will ensure the highest levels of competence of production technologists in the asset development team to include the, budget management, recruitment, retention, competency development and professional coaching and mentoring.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Work in an integrated study team (as a member or a study team lead) where you can learn from others and equally contribute with your own background and experience. Make PT input into field development plan. The required technical work will comprise but will not be limited to well performance modelling, sand prediction, sand control selection and upper completion design, perforating and smart well design for land and swamp operations.
• Ensure compliance with well, reservoir and facility  management, well integrity, voidage and flare control guidelines and taking appropriate actions in assigned field/s.
• Identification of short term oil opportunities for ranking in the business planning processes and the maturation of short term oil opportunities within the asset team.
• Ensure flow assurance for the life cycle the project. Incorporate mitigation strategies into production optimisation plans.
• Provide conceptual completion design for the most economic production throughout the life cycle of the well, i.e. performance modelling, tubing sizing, artificial lift design, drainage conduits, selection of completion accessories (e.g. SMART equipment, no of packers), material specification etc.
• Identify candidate wells, which have near-wellbore or wellbore damage for stimulations (e.g. acid or Waves stimulations) and design suitable treatment. Monitor the stimulations operations and evaluate the results.
• Identify water or gas shut-off candidates wells and design treatments (mechanical and chemical treatments). Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Identify wells that require additional and/or re-perforations, due to high mechanical skin and design operations (e.g. gun selection, drawdown). Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Generate an activity proposal for any of the above operations, which contains the economic justification, functional design and programme outline.
• Generate well/system model (incl. the artificial lift) to compare actual performance with predicted. Identify wells that are not optimized and initiate actions/well interventions to change the operating conditions. Identify wells that are not performing and review options to improve inflow performance.
• Generate a well/reservoir surveillance plan, in conjunction with other disciplines, obtain key data and incorporate it into asset surveillance plan.
• Identify candidates for BHPs, production logging & related cased hole logs and design the operation. Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Generate an activity proposal for any surveillance operations, which contains the economic justification, functional design and outline programme
• Carries out other similar or related duties such as assisting in the preparation and presentation of Technical papers to Company management and Interest Holders, maintaining close working relationship with field staff to ensure that field related tasks are carried out in efficient manner and related problems are timely identified and action.

Job Knowledge and Qualifications:

As Production Technologists have a broad understanding of other E&P disciplines and skills in all key Production technologist specialties. A university degree in Engineering or equivalent with 6 - 10 years relevant experience, including a minimum of 5 years PT work experience in an operating company. Skills in the following:

    Well Modeling & Performance
    Production System Optimization
    Conformance Technology
    Well Integrity Management and Determining Well Operating Envelope
    Planning & Design of Well Intervention Activities
    HSE considerations in well management and completion operations
    Completion Design and supervision
    Oil well cementing and Drill-in Fluids
    Knowledge in Production Operation
    Coaching/Mentoring

Competencies;
Production Technologist core skills                                Skilled
People management, work and lead teams                    Skilled
Strategy development                                                  Knowledge
Stake holder engagement/relationships                         Knowledge
Manage HSE and Risk                                                  Skilled
Results oriented, commercial focus                                Skilled