Petroleum Engineer at Nestoil Plc

As a Petroleum Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Working with earth scientists to carry out annual review of oil and associated gas reserves to ensure estimates are reliable.
• Making annual updates to producing reservoirs.
• While working closely with other disciplines, carry out petroleum engineering aspects of oil developments. This includes:
  • Nodal analysis to estimate well production potentials.
  • Material balance modelling to match historical reservoir performance and to forecast future performance.
  • Reservoir simulation modelling to match historical reservoir performance and to forecast future performance.
  • Reservoir fluid Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) modelling.
  • Surface facility modelling.
• Working closely with geologists, modelers, and Petro physicists 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.
• Interfacing with economic analyst to estimate investment outcomes of alternative development scenarios.
• The use of economic models provided 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 petroleum engineers working on gas 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. Providing information and clarity on projects, or any other issues that may arise.
• Meeting with officials of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) as required to reach alignment on projects, providing information and clarity 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.

What are we looking for?

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering.
• Relevant professional membership (e.g., Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), etc.)
• Minimum of 3 years of subsurface oil and gas industry experience.
• Familiarity with petroleum engineering principles (e.g., nodal analysis, etc.).
• Familiarity with well and reservoir modelling software (e.g. Prosper, MBAL, GAP, PVTP, Petrel e.t.c.)
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well-organized with ability to perform amidst competing tight deadlines