Lead Subsurface & Reservoir Risk Analyst for M&A

Dragon Oil; Dubai; On-site; AED 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragon Oil is seeking an experienced Subsurface professional in Dubai to lead and prepare technical evaluations for acquisitions, integrating inputs from G&G, petrophysics, and engineering. You will support third-party consultants and review CPRs while managing technical risk across subsurface, operational, regulatory, and market domains.

With 12–15 years in reservoir and petroleum engineering, you will shape development plans, budgets, and strategic plans, coordinating cross-disciplinary teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent in Petroleum Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Minimum 12–15 years of experience in Reservoir engineering & Petroleum Engineering

Responsibilities

• Validate data rooms and ensure quality, completeness, and consistency of all technical datasets.
• Lead Petrophysical evaluation for existing wells & benchmark against CPR documents.
• Conduct in-depth reservoir engineering & petroleum engineering evaluations implementing robust analytical engineering approaches.
• Critically review CPRs and reconcile with observed data, document variances and value impact.
• Benchmark historical field performance, base declines, new wells & workovers and establish chance of success and trends.
• Define phased development plans based on exploration, appraisal data and analog performance.
• Review historical operational aspects including drilling, workovers, asset integrity and well services to reflect learnings on future projection of production and cost.
• Maintain a risk register covering subsurface, drilling, facilities, operational, regulatory, market & quantify uncertainties.
• Support 3rd party due diligence process providing all necessary technical data, documentation, and clarifications to enable accurate and timely independent assessments.
• Prepare an integrated technical package for the target asset covering reservoir, petroleum engineering, surface facilities, Asset integrity aspects & identify key technical risks,
• Participate with subsurface insights in preparation of business growth future plan and budget.

Skills

Subsurface / Reservoir Eng

M&A / Due Diligence

CPR

Reserve Certification

Production & Field Performance

Field Development Planning

Technical Risk & Uncertainty

Integrated Asset Evaluation

Operational & Well Eng Exposure

Commercial / Business Planning

Third-Party Management

Technical Reporting & Communication

Education

Bachelor Degree in Petroleum Engineering

Master’s Degree is a plus

Job description

Dragon Oil is seeking an experienced Subsurface professional in Dubai to lead and prepare technical evaluations for acquisitions, integrating inputs from G&G, petrophysics, and engineering. You will support third-party consultants and review CPRs while managing technical risk across subsurface, operational, regulatory, and market domains.

With 12–15 years in reservoir and petroleum engineering, you will shape development plans, budgets, and strategic plans, coordinating cross-disciplinary teams