Senior Petroleum Engineer – Production Technology and Asset Optimisation Engineer

Job ref: 21425

Start: 01.01.2027

Purpose

Improve production performance and value from producing assets by integrating well, reservoir and production-system understanding.

Key responsibilities

• Perform well and production-network modelling to identify optimisation and debottlenecking opportunities.
• Develop production forecasts and recommendations with Subsurface, Operations, and Drilling and Wells.
• Identify, evaluate and mature reservoir and well opportunities that can increase recovery, production and economic value.
• Assess production constraints and communicate expected value, uncertainty and operational implications.

Suggested profile

Well-performance and network modelling; production operations and reservoir performance; ability to translate analysis into practical asset recommendations.

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.
• Five to seven years of relevant petroleum engineering experience. Clarify before publication whether this is a target range or whether five years is the minimum.
• 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 producing assets and production operations.
• PetEx or comparable well-performance and production-network modelling software.
• Experience with network modelling, production forecasting and production-system analysis.
• 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]