Petroleum / Reservoir Engineer Consultant

Location: London, UK

Type: 12-month contract, Flexible working - 2 days a week in London HQ

Our client is a global E&P Operator, headquartered in London. They are recruiting for a Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer responsible for providing support across global assets in production and under appraisal.

The Role

The Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer will be responsible for providing production well management, reservoir surveillance, reservoir performance interpretation, production forecasting, well planning and reservoir studies on global assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice, guidance, and support on integrated production modelling and individual modelling components.
• Provide hands-on work on integrated production modelling.
• Provide expert PE/RE support to both well management activities and interpretation of production data to update existing reservoir modelling, constrain production forecasts and provide input into redefining future drilling campaigns.
• Regular collaboration with field operations teams to ensure optimum well management and collection of quality surveillance data.
• Contribute to ongoing integrated subsurface evaluations of all producing and appraisal reservoirs to define in-place and recoverable hydrocarbon volumes.
• Provide expert petroleum engineering support to mature producing PPA asset, focusing on maintaining the integrity and safe operation of existing producing wells and constraining production forecasting.
• Support efforts to automate and speed-up workflows; scripting knowledge with VBA, Openserver, Python is preferred.
• Provide functional advice and support to field appraisal and development planning work on recent discoveries close to main operated producing assets onshore.
• Report to the Senior Manager Developments and consult on a day-to-day basis with the Petroleum Engineering Lead and Reservoir Engineering Lead.
• Work closely across all subsurface staff within Development, Subsurface, Exploration and Well Delivery teams located in the London and global offices.
• Travel periodically to the field base in country.
• Lead subsurface dynamic modelling efforts for individual reservoirs, including integrated production forecasts from multiple reservoirs.
• Develop workflows to ensure adequate post-processing of production forecasts.
• Responsible for interpretation of reservoir production data and ensure integration with subsurface reservoir teams to deliver updated reservoir descriptions and volume and forecast estimations.
• Expertise in well test analysis will be required.
• Hands-on petroleum engineering work on new well and workover designs for projects at various stages of maturity (exploration, appraisal, development and production).
• Build and/or maintain integrated production models.
• Provide strong leadership in integration across all subsurface disciplines.
• Documenting, presenting and archiving results of technical work.
• Familiarise with policies on SHE, Risk Management and Major Hazards.
• Report any incidents, near misses, hazards and improvement suggestions.

In the UK and globally, our Client now operates a flexible working policy whereby staff are able to work the majority of their time from home, with on average 2 days a week spent in the London office.

Key Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Ideally educated to a post graduate degree level in reservoir or petroleum engineering (MSc) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Proven seniority and oil and gas experience ideally gained in an operating environment.
• Advanced level of understanding of both reservoir and petroleum engineering principles and concepts and their integration with other subsurface functions.
• Expert in both analytical and simulation based dynamic modelling techniques.
• Demonstrated experience with automating workflows and scripting in various languages/tools (VBA, Python, Openserver, etc.) will be required.
• Experience in concept completion design, sand control, geomechanics, well interventions, well testing is highly desirable.
• Substantial experience across the full upstream value chain, from exploration, appraisal, development, mature production and abandonment.
• Track record of providing both peer assist support to and peer review of both petroleum engineering and multi-functional integrated studies.

General Capabilities

• A strong team player with good communications skills.
• Self-motivated leadership skills to manage and complete projects.
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Preference for the candidate to be based in the south east UK to enable regular visits to London office as agreed.
• Available for occasional travel to South Africa (2 x a year).
• Problem solver willing to consider new solutions and to lead discussions on adoption of non-traditional solutions.
• Desire to learn, develop capabilities and take on greater responsibilities with a “can do” attitude.