Lead Reservoir Engineer at WTS Energy

Job Purpose

• Maximize shareholder value by making business recommendations based on expert technical evaluations and sound economics.
• The successful candidate must be able to manage multiple concurrent projects, work in a team environment and be able to effectively communicate within and outside the organization.

Responsibilities and Key Objectives
Reservoir Management & Modelling:

• Review surveillance, analysis, dynamic models and provide direction on subsurface engineering required for proper reservoir management of assets
• Provide leadership within multi-disciplinary teams to ensure adequate reservoir management of the company’s assets
• Lead activities to optimize producing assets from a reservoir perspective leading to improved recovery, increased production and reserves addition.
• Develop reservoir performance prediction and prepare estimates of in-place hydrocarbon volume
• Support/Update company-wide standard reservoir management practice.
• Field Development Planning
• Manage field development planning and well / project economic evaluation
• Provide technical support to evaluate business development opportunities; deliver technical presentations to senior management supporting evaluation
• Provide technical support for the development of the company's assets
• Perform reserve and economic evaluations of drilling, recompletion and workover opportunities
• Support reservoir and production due diligence on potential farm-ins and acquisition
• Reserves Identification, Forecast and Reporting
• Review and Approve Year-end Assets’ reserves figures for regulatory authority’s endorsement

Person Specification
Education:

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Petroleum Engineering or other relevant Engineering degree
• Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering would be an added advantage

Job Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• 15-20 years Oil and Gas experience with at least 10 years in Reservoir Engineering
• Must have a good knowledge of technical practices and principles of reservoir engineering including but not limited to reservoir performance analysis, field optimization, development planning, economic evaluation, production forecasting and reserves evaluation.
• Have a strong understanding of integrated asset/production modelling preferably with Petroleum Expert tools
• Outstanding verbal, written and presentation skills
• Proven ability to represent company interests with external organizations