Senior Supervisor (Senior Pipeline Project Engineer) at Vagan Oil & Gas Limited

Academics : Degree B.Sc./ B. Eng./HND in Mechanical, Chemical, Metallurgical, Civil or Corrosion Engineering with strong knowledge of pipeline engineering.

Work Experience : Minimum of 20 years’ experience in integrated Oil & Gas upstream operations, 5 years of which will be at project supervision level in related jobs and good understanding of pipeline engineering, integrity, and capacity management systems.

• Knowledge of SPDC onshore and shallow offshore pipeline network
• Strong communication and interface management skills when dealing with multiple parties, including Government regulators.
• Hands on experience in using SAP as maintenance management system.
• Experienced and has good understanding in the usage of SPDC PTW system

Key Interfaces : Pipeline teams, Production Hubs, Integrated Planning Manager, Hydrocarbon planning team, Geomatics, Security team, Legal, HSE and Community/Ext. Relations., Oil Spill Response & Remediation

External parties: DPR, NAPIMS, JV operators, communities

Technology Platforms : Use of Shell Civil RCM methodology. Adept at working with enterprise Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Power Point, Skype, Teams); SharePoint, etc.

Professional Certifications : Must have a valid HUET Certification as at 1 Feb 2021, Must have valid fitness to Work Certificate as at 1 Feb 2021. Member of Nigerian Society of Engineers. Should be Shell TA 3 ready based on peer and self-assessment.

Technical Skills :  

Job Purpose:

• Supervise site execution of planned and corrective pipeline operations and maintenance activities to ensure integral pipeline, for safe hydrocarbon transportation.
• Execute projects that ensure internal and external condition integrity of all pipeline assets to deliver set target of oil /gas availability and to satisfy long term oil & gas customer demands in terms of quality and quantity.
• Implementation of the operation processes for pipelines to ensure debottlenecking and minimum production restrictions: i.e. Pigging, cleaning and chemical injection.
• Supervise hydrocarbon transportation and delivery for relevant Production Hub through pipeline availability and optimization.
• Field supervision of pipeline Cathodic Protection, coating monitoring, survey, manifold inspection, maintenance, and upgrade activities.
• Implement Intelligent Pigging and other non-destructive inspection and monitoring in line with specified integrity and statutory requirements.
• Field supervision of pipeline maintenance activities including sleeving, sectional replacement, riser replacement, manifold protection and caging, valve change-out, coating repairs, CP upgrades and installation of ground beds.
• Develop and execute all relevant asset maintenance initiatives in line with relevant procedures.
• Interface with other pipeline and support function teams to manage community and security issues during activity execution.
• Support the preparation and implementation of corporate pipeline operations and maintenance contracts.
• Ensure HSE compliance in all pipeline activities during maintenance activities.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Ensure project activities are executed safely according to Schedule by pipeline contractors, consultants and to ensure timely completion.
• Perform quality control duties and responsibilities and ensure all job activities are delivered to Shell set standards.
• Identify and correct contractor non-compliance with HSE standards.
• Identify and resolve conflicts in Project activities and communicate them supervisor.
• Maintain and send daily log (written) of activities on the jobsite.
• Walk all units on project daily to monitor activities and assist in future planning.
• High availability of pipeline systems via quick maintenance execution.
• Maintain robust pipeline maintenance response capabilities.
• Liaison with regulator E.g. (DPR, FEMEV, NOSDRA etc)
• Pipeline contribution to UOC and expenditure in operations and maintenance,
• Compliance with all HSE policies and processes and HSE performance wrt pipeline availability,
• Pipeline and manifold internal and external condition enhancement process delivery,
• Best practice implementation in internal and external inspection and operation of pipeline system to deliver acceptable integrity and availability of the hydrocarbon evacuation system.
• Maintenance of pipeline ancillary systems CP, coating monitoring, surveys, manifold inspection.

 HSE

• Provide leadership in HSE          Knowledge
• Prepare effective management of HSSE risk   Knowledge
•  Apply effective management of HSSE risk      Skill
• Contracting and Procurement
• Formulate and execute sourcing strategies     Knowledge
• Understand and drive contract Mgt & Perf. Improvement      Mastery

Technical

• Pipeline concepts select     Knowledge
• Pipeline routing     Knowledge
• Pipeline steady state Hydraulics    Skill
• Pipeline System Engineering (Integration)       Knowledge
• Pipeline/ Riser Mechanical design         Knowledge
• Pipeline Materials selection       Knowledge
• Pipeline Crossings, Stations and Tie-in     Knowledge
• Pipeline Construction and Installation Engineering     Knowledge
• Pipeline Project Management and Delivery     Skill
• Pipelines to Operations Handover        Skill
• Pipeline Operations     Skill
• Pipeline Inspection and Integrity    Skill
• Pipeline Remediation and Repair       Skill
• Member Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) Mandatory

KPIs:

• HSE (LTIF, Fatalities, Environmental /regulatory compliance)
• Pipeline contribution to UOC
• High pipeline availability >95%
• High MRP completion >90%
• Reduction in pipeline deferment due to maintenance activities
• Maintenance and operations best practice compliance
• Reduction in Nos of corrosion leak

Additional Information

Key Challenges:

•  Crude theft and third-party interference on pipelines is a major challenge for the incumbent
•  High Availability, People & Competence management.
• SPDC’s pipeline assets require significant professional/resource input to ensure high uptime and availability in line with IAP oil and gas production objectives; achieving this in a very constrained funding environment is a key challenge for the incumbent.
• Unblocking Security/Community challenges to ensure maintenance and activities are carried out in a timely manner.
• Managing multiple internal/intra company technical, commercial and often unclear external regulatory/statutory interfaces required to maximize SPDC pipelines assets availability.

Work Schedule:

Working hours are usually 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday; will be required to work on weekends on-site.

Traveling out of base location for days will be required and will include hours/days to be spent on fields locations on in onshore, swamp, or offshore locations, with base office being in Port Harcourt.