Senior Petroleum Engineer – Field Development, Well Productivity and EOR Engineer

Job ref: 21424
Start: 01.01.2027

Purpose

Provide petroleum engineering expertise for field developments and the maturation of reservoir, well and improved-recovery opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to development concepts, drainage strategies and well-design decisions.
• Evaluate formation damage, well productivity and completion-related uncertainties.
• Screen and mature infill targets and enhanced oil recovery opportunities.
• Support advanced-well design and evaluate relevant technologies with internal disciplines and vendors.
• Document assumptions, uncertainties, risks and value implications for project decisions.

Suggested profile

Field development and reservoir management; well productivity and formation damage; opportunity maturation, well planning or EOR screening.

Common responsibilities:

• Contribute actively to the Petroleum Engineering network through knowledge sharing, technical assurance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate effectively across disciplines, assets, projects and organisational interfaces.
• Prepare clear, traceable and decision-oriented technical documentation.
• Identify and communicate uncertainty, risk and value implications.
• Work in accordance with applicable safety requirements, technical standards and the client’s values

Qualifications

Required:

• Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or another relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant petroleum engineering experience.
• Practical experience from at least one of these areas: field development, production optimisation, reservoir management, well planning or well delivery.
• Sound understanding of relevant petroleum engineering analytical methods and PVT behaviour.
• Ability to communicate analyses, assumptions, uncertainties and recommendations clearly in English.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.

Preferred or role-dependent

• Experience from field-development projects and reservoir-management activities.
• PetEx or comparable petroleum engineering software experience.
• Experience with advanced wells, well productivity, formation damage or EOR screening
• Job location: Stavanger, Oslo or Trondheim

Personal capabilities

• Collaborates constructively and behaves consistently with the client’s values: Enquiring, Responsible, Predictable, Committed and Respectful.
• Works effectively with uncertainty and ambiguity and prioritises according to business needs.
• Understands how data should be made available, quality-assured, interpreted and visualised for decisions.
• Organises work effectively, supports shared goals and follows agreed activities through to completion.
• Communicates complex technical matters clearly and appropriately for the audience.

If interested in this position, please contact: [email protected]