Reservoir Engineer I at Oando

Job Specification:

• 1st degree in Petroleum Engineering or other Engineering degree with appropriate professional experience, required
• 1 – 3 years of experience required
• Awareness of key subjects within reservoir engineering discipline, 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

Strong computer skills

• Skilled level user of MS Office software: Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Petroleum economic skills is a plus
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation skills
• Solid analytical skills: problem-solving and critical thinking
• Technical writing

Major Responsibility Area:

Strategic

• Reviewing and analyzing plans and results for pressure transient tests.
• Reviewing or preparing appraisal programs for reservoir engineering data (PVT, RCAL / SCAL, pressure data, well tests, MDT, etc.)
• Reviewing data acquisition reports and lab reports from contractors – quality check samples & results, extract properties required for reservoir engineering studies
• Developing production forecasts and predicting reservoir performance for approval of well proposals
• Understand and support efforts to mitigate subsurface risk
• Proposing cost-effective reservoir monitoring and surveillance programs
• Support reservoir simulation studies to test development concepts / recovery schemes and optimize recoveries
• Support well and reservoir surveillance analysis and make recommendations for optimization and proper management of reservoirs
• Prepare written reports of reservoir performance, explaining and presenting results
• Develop reservoir performance predictions, including decline analysis and material balance on producing assets
• Prepare forecasts for business plan and monthly production outlook
• Support / review deterministic and probabilistic estimates of in-place hydrocarbon volume
• Participate in year-end reserves assessment and reporting

Core Competencies:

• Awareness of Reservoir Data Acquisition
• Awareness of Reservoir Fluid Properties
• Awareness of Reservoir Rock Properties
• Awareness of Well Testing & Pressure Transient Analysis
• Awareness of Determination of Initial Reservoir Conditions
• Awareness of Fluid Transport through Porous Media
• Awareness of Material Balance
• Awareness of Dynamic Reservoir Simulation
• Awareness of Decline Curve Analysis
• Awareness of Oil and Gas Reserves Estimation
• Awareness of Reservoir Surveillance
• Awareness of Well Performance
• Awareness of Field Development Planning
• Awareness of Integrated Reservoir Characterisation
• Awareness of Field/Asset Management
• Awareness of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Methods
• Awareness of Unconventional Hydrocarbons e.g. Heavy Oil

Other Competencies

• Team Playing
• Oral & written Communication