Job Title: Principal Reservoir Engineer
Entity: OER
Reports To: Head of Petroleum Engineering
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
Supervisory Responsibility
Direct Reports: Reservoir Engineer III & Senior Reservoir Engineer, Lead Reservoir Engineer
Technical mentorship of Interns, Graduate Trainees, Reservoir Engineer I and II
Job Specification
• 1st 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
Major Responsibility Area
• 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
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