Senior Reservoir Engineer

Job ref: 21488

Start: 04.01.2027

Purpose of position/ General responsibility

• Initiate, drive forward and oversee reservoir engineering activities to support business goals and strategies in accordance with Business Management System (BMS) and HSSE guidelines
• Mentor more junior staff and be active in training and technical networks
• Drive best-practice processes

Tasks:

• Formulating and executing agreed technical programmes for each asset
• Preparing and presenting material as required internally and to third parties including regulators and joint venture partners
• Representing Subsurface on JV partnership committees, to act in the best interest of the client and communicate supporting technical positions
• Leading assigned BMS processes
• Following safety and environmental policies, guidelines and procedures
• Actively sharing discipline knowledge through team meetings and other forums
• Mentoring junior staff and supporting senior staff in building competency in other areas
• Contributing to technical assurance of opportunities
• Performing technical asset evaluations, such as:
• Monitoring and reporting production and injection performance on existing fields
• Providing production profiles as input to an opportunity economic analysis, including APA licence rounds & exploration licence drill or drop decisions
• Performing pressure transient analysis, production well performance and decline curve analyses
• Performing reservoir simulation studies
• Production forecasting & reserves reporting
• Assessing subsurface risk for opportunities
• Preparing / reviewing relevant parts of well programmes (e.g. well test planning)

Formal education

• Ideally MSc in a relevant discipline; Reservoir or Petroleum Engineering

Professional experience

• 10+ years work experience
• Extensive experience across several producing basins on the NCS; experience from other NW European or international producing basins is valued
• A highly skilled background in a range of petroleum engineering disciplines; e.g. pressure transient analysis, material balance, reservoir simulation, PVT modelling, decline curve analysis, SCAL
• Expertise in flow in porous media, fluid dynamic behaviour and reservoir drive mechanisms
• Highly experienced user of dynamic modelling packages, preferably PetrelRE, Eclipse, Intersect or PETEX suite
• Knowledgable across subsurface disciplines, e.g. Geology/Geophysics, Drilling, Completions and Economics
• Experience in applying Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to large datasets to resolve reservoir engineering challenges (e.g. production forecasting, history matching, surveillance and optimisation) is valued.
• Self-starter, highly motivated, naturally curious and well organised
• Very well developed analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, presentation and project management skills
• Expertise in collaborating effectively in multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven ability to influence and impact the external JV partners
• Safety-first approach to all activities
• Through your actions and behaviours, contribute to building and developing your team and culture in line with objectives and strategy.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Embrace the values First, Fair and Firm
• Promote the culture
• Act in accordance with our Code of Conduct
• Speak up and be loyal to decisions
• Be proactive and interested
• Represent the client in a professional way

If interested, please contact [email protected]