Senior Production Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

Plans, supervises and/or carries out a variety of duties relating to rigless operations, testing, and stimulation to ensure optimization of oil/gas producing wells, water supply, and water/gas injection wells. Provides technical support to field operations in the production of hydrocarbons and the efficient use of water and/or gas injection systems.

Job Specific Accountabilities (Part 1)

• Prepare programs for rigless operations, perforation, kick-off operation, stimulation, and well testing to be carried out by service companies.
• Prepare programs for various well tests such as multi-rate production/injection tests and isochronal/modified isochronal tests. Coordinates and supervises testing operations and carries out preliminary interpretation and evaluation of test results.
• Follow up and supervise all wireline work carried out by contractors. Verify various reports and send to Asset Development for further review and action.
• Supervise production logging and carry out preliminary log interpretation and evaluation of test results.
• Monitor oil/gas producing and water injection wells performance. Investigate and diagnose well problems and propose action requirements. Recommend workover for specific wells giving prognosis of each well and workover justification.
• Coordinate and supervise downhole equipment testing and maintenance.
• Review and evaluate water injection clusters performance and discuss the long-term injection test with concerned engineers of other Departments.
• Monitor and discuss the performance of installed production equipment.
• Participate in technical studies concerning water/gas injection and artificial lift projects, oil and gas operations, facilities optimization or modification, as assigned.
• Maintain a comprehensive database on well history, oil/gas production, water production/injection, and gas injection statistics.
• Participate in the development of operating, reporting, and recording procedures for oil, gas, and water production/injection performance.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Plan, supervise, and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Budgets

• Provide input for preparation of the functional budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved budget and work plans to deliver Section objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved Section/Department policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures in order to support execution of the Section’s/Department work programs in line with Company and International standards.

Performance Management

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the function in line with the Company Performance framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best Industry standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability

• Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices, and ADNOC Code of Practices.

Reports

• Provide inputs to prepare Section MIS and progress reports for Management.