Senior Petroleum Engineer

Job ref: 21413

Start: 01.01.2027

Production Optimisation and Digital Systems Engineer

Purpose

Support cross-asset production optimisation by combining petroleum engineering, network modelling, data and digital production-management systems.

Key responsibilities

• Provide cross-asset support for production and network optimisation.
• Use production data, engineering models and digital tools to identify constraints and opportunities.
• Support development and continuous improvement of Production Optimisation and Energy Management systems.
• Provide petroleum engineering requirements to digital initiatives and work with asset teams, digital specialists and system owners.
• Promote consistent work processes, model quality and effective tool use across assets.

Suggested profile

Network optimisation and production-system analysis; strong digital and data capability; experience supporting production-optimisation applications.

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 values.

Qualifications

• 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 producing assets and cross-asset production optimisation.
• PetEx or comparable production-network modelling software experience.
• Experience with digital production-optimisation or energy-management systems.
• Job location: Stavanger, Oslo or Trondheim

Personal capabilities

• Collaborates constructively and behaves consistently with client 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, please contact [email protected]