Principal Reservoir Engineer at Oando

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.