Vacancies at Leap29 (Oil & Gas)

Responsibilities of the Principal Drilling Engineer:
• Required to review and revise databases, particularly the reporting data base IDS ensuring data is accurately and correctly organised ready for use and easy to access.
• Required to conduct a monthly review of the technical work plan to optimise well delivery and minimise the costs.
• Require to carry out preliminary well planning at the project identification and evaluation stages.
• Required on a weekly basis to ensure the compilation of each team’s performance data and present feedback to the operation as means of encouraging performance improvements.
• Required to review and remain up to date with the company/statutory guidelines for drilling, completion and testing operations. Ensure drilling teams are aware of any changes and monitor compliance with same.

Qualifications of the Principal Drilling Engineer:
• Bachelor degree in Engineering.
• Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers. Member IADC. Attended industry courses in well engineering, well operations management, project management.
• Good technical knowledge of well planning and operations. Ability to analyse well operations and determine areas requiring improvement.
• Resourceful, self starter with the imagination and initiative to improve well operations.
• Team leader with presentation and organisational capabilities, able to coordinate and facilitate meetings.

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To be suitable for this position you will need to have the following background
- 10 years of experiences in the Drilling Industry
- BS Degree in Engineering
- Good technical knowledge of well operations. Initiative to proffer solutions to technical problems. Sound knowledge of IADC/API guidelines for well operations. Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations applicable to testing and completion operations.
- Supervise subordinates, rig operations, service companies; make presentations and facilitate meetings.
- Good interpersonal skills, communications and organizational skills are essential

Responsibilities will include
- Responsible for offshore/onshore well completion planning. Ensure completion plans are suitable for the well.
- Responsible for supervision of execution on the rig as needed.
- Ensure optimization of completion plans.
- Write detailed completion programs for all well types
- Hold planning meetings, CWOP’s etc. and ensure actions are taken to mitigate all risks in the program.
- Visit contractors and ensure tool selection is correct and meets all QA/QC requirements.
- Ensure Addax database is properly updated and useful for obtaining completion planning information.
- Monitor completion performance and provide benchmark statistics to ensure completions are time and cost effective.
- Provide charts of well completion performance for daily review, and engineering reports for the company as well as reports for NAPIMS and DPR.
- Establish completion KPI’s and monitor NPT performance.
- Provide detailed scope of work for completions and related services as needed for tendering or contracting purposes.
- Ensure completion contracts are valid for all jobs planned.
- Mentor drilling and completion engineers.