Production Technologist at Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited

Job Purpose

• The Production Technologist will work within a dynamic, high‑performing, multi‑disciplinary team, providing technical expertise across one of the following areas, depending on either role assignment below:

Responsibilities
Studies Production Technologist:

• Analyse and interpret production performance and subsurface data to support development planning and decision making.
• Build, maintain, and update integrated production system models for production forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Develop completion strategies for wells and field development plans.
• Manage Production Technology data, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and proper storage within corporate databases.
• Provide Production Technology input to business planning and governance activities, including: 
• Development Planning
• Business Planning
• Hydrocarbon Maturation and Commercialisation (HCM)
• Annual Production and Reserves Processes (ARPR)
• Unitisation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Project planning and budgeting
• Deliver high quality field and project development plans and technical documentation, and present work for internal and external review and approval.
• Coordinate QA/QC activities and work closely with Discipline Principals and Coaches to ensure technical assurance and compliance.

Operations Production Technologist:

• Ensure wells are completed as designed, delivering asset integrity, planned production potential, and recoverable volumes.
• Ensure Production Technology inputs are fully and accurately captured in well proposals.
• Ensure full compliance with well integrity standards throughout the well lifecycle.
• Ensure compliant resource volume estimation and reporting for assigned fields.
• Be accountable for the quality of Production Technology delivery during new drilling, workover, and intervention activities.
• Apply appropriate and emerging technologies to support well completions, interventions, and workovers.
• Actively drive HSSE leadership within asset well operations, ensuring safe and compliant execution.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline with at least 9 years relevant work experience.
• Relevant experience in completion design, artificial lift, sand control management, production enhancement and optimisation, and well integrity management.
• Demonstrated expertise in completion and well design, including definition of well operating envelopes and preparation of Production Technology inputs to well proposals.
• Hands on experience in sand control design and artificial lift systems, with particular strength in gas lift design.
• Proven capability in well integrity management across the well lifecycle.
• Experience supporting well delivery activities including drilling, recompletions, and workovers is an advantage.
• Proficient in Production Technology software, particularly: 
• PROSPER
• IPSM
• SPOT
• WellCat
• Knowledge of OFM would be an added advantage.

The role requires demonstrated competence in the following areas:

• Well inflow and outflow modelling
• Well inflow enhancement
• Well outflow enhancement
• Well and completion design
• Sand management
• Well intervention and workover
• Wells, Reservoir and Facilities Management (WRFM)
• Well integrity management

Job Dimensions
Support delivery of approximately: 

• 7–10 new drill wells per year
• 3–4 workover wells per year
• 3–4 abandonment wells per year

Provide support across three major Asset clusters (Field Management Teams) covering: 

• ~30 active fields (over 60 discovered fields)
• ~380 wells (producing and shut in with potential)
• ~180 reservoirs

Operational support for approximately: 

• 2+1 rigs/HWU
• 5 intervention units.

The successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Good understanding of Subsurface HSE Critical Uncertainties and Design Engineering Practices (DEPs) as they relate to Field Development Planning (FDP) and Well Proposal delivery.
• Working knowledge of related Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience disciplines, including Petrophysics (PP), Reservoir Engineering (RE), Production Geology (PG), and Geophysics (GPH).
• Ability to work effectively within multi disciplinary, collaborative team environments, including co located resources.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical outcomes and proactively flag key findings to team leads.
• Solid understanding of subsurface uncertainties, risks, and technical challenges associated with subsurface and surface development opportunities.
• Proven interpersonal, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.