Petroleum Engineer - Well Performance

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE; Al Ruways Industrial City; On-site; AED 279,000 - 390,600; Full time

Job summary

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE is seeking an experienced Petroleum Engineer - Well Performance in Abu Dhabi Emirate. The role focuses on completion design, production optimization, artificial lift, well testing, and multidisciplinary field operations to maintain and improve oil production and injection efficiency.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6 years in petroleum engineering, strong experience in production engineering, nodal analysis, and reservoir support, and will coordinate with drilling,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering is required.
• Minimum 6 years of experience across petroleum engineering operations.
• Strong experience in production engineering and well performance analysis.
• Practical knowledge of production and injection well completion design.
• Experience performing artificial lift selection, design, surveillance, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of well testing strategy, execution, and result interpretation.
• Practical capability in nodal analysis and production system optimization.
• Familiarity with pressure transient analysis and reservoir engineering support.
• Experience monitoring daily well performance and diagnosing production problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual completion designs for production and injection wells.
• Define completion requirements in line with approved reservoir and production strategies.
• Review well objectives, expected rates, pressure conditions, fluid properties, and constraints.
• Recommend completion equipment, configurations, and operating parameters.
• Coordinate completion requirements with drilling, reservoir, production, and well services teams.
• Perform artificial lift design for oil-producing wells.
• Evaluate suitable artificial lift methods according to well conditions and production objectives.
• Define operating envelopes, equipment requirements, and optimization opportunities.
• Monitor artificial lift performance and adjust if production declines.

Skills

Engineering

Petroleum engineering

Production engineering

Well performance analysis

Well completion design

Artificial lift design

Nodal analysis

Pressure transient analysis

Well testing

Production surveillance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering

Job description

Petroleum Engineer - Well Performance

Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Engineering
Experience: Minimum 6 years
Job Type: Full-time

Overview

Petroleum Engineer - Well Performance in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates is an Oil and Energy hiring opportunity focused on well completion, production optimization, artificial lift design, well testing, workover support, stimulation, production logging, and petroleum engineering studies. The role analyzes field and well data to maintain production performance, diagnose operational issues, and identify opportunities to improve oil production and injection efficiency. This position is suitable for an experienced petroleum engineering professional with strong knowledge of completion design, nodal analysis, pressure transient analysis, well surveillance, artificial lift systems, production technology, and multidisciplinary field operations.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi Emirate
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Engineering
Salary: 25000-35000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Context

The Petroleum Engineer - Well Performance will provide technical support across the lifecycle of production and injection wells. The role combines completion planning, artificial lift engineering, well testing, production surveillance, drilling support, workover coordination, and performance optimization. The jobholder will work with reservoir engineering, drilling, production operations, well services, workover, completion, and commissioning teams.

Effective analysis and timely recommendations will help sustain well productivity, improve field offtake, maintain production and injection balance, and reduce avoidable well downtime.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual completion designs for production and injection wells.
• Define completion requirements in line with approved reservoir and production strategies.
• Review well objectives, expected rates, pressure conditions, fluid properties, and operational constraints.
• Recommend appropriate completion equipment, configurations, and operating parameters.
• Coordinate completion requirements with drilling, reservoir, production, and well services teams.
• Perform artificial lift design for oil-producing wells.
• Evaluate suitable artificial lift methods according to well conditions and production objectives.
• Define operating envelopes, equipment requirements, expected performance, and optimization opportunities.
• Monitor artificial lift performance and recommend adjustments when production declines or operating conditions change.
• Develop and finalize well testing strategies for production and injection wells.
• Define test objectives, procedures, equipment requirements, duration, and data acquisition needs.
• Monitor well testing activities and assess the quality of acquired data.
• Interpret test results and determine well productivity, injectivity, pressure behavior, and operating constraints.
• Recommend follow-up actions based on well test findings.
• Monitor daily production and injection well performance.
• Review rates, pressures, temperatures, water cut, gas‑oil ratio, injection performance, and artificial lift indicators.
• Identify abnormal trends, production losses, restrictions, and developing well problems.
• Diagnose performance issues and coordinate corrective actions with relevant teams.
• Evaluate opportunities to restore, sustain, or increase well production.
• Conduct nodal analysis to optimize the complete production system.
• Evaluate inflow performance, tubing performance, surface restrictions, and operating pressure requirements.
• Identify system bottlenecks affecting production or injection performance.
• Recommend changes to choke settings, artificial lift parameters, completion configuration, or surface conditions.
• Support reservoir engineering teams with pressure transient analysis planning and interpretation.
• Assist in designing pressure buildup, drawdown, interference, and other specialized well tests.
• Review pressure data and support assessment of reservoir and well behavior.
• Monitor drilling activities that may affect completion design or future well performance.
• Communicate petroleum engineering concerns to drilling teams promptly.
• Provide technical support to resolve drilling, completion, or well delivery issues.
• Confirm that approved well objectives and technical requirements are maintained during execution.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive technical database for production and injection wells.
• Record well tests, completion details, pressure history, workover activities, production logs, and optimization work.
• Maintain accurate records of stimulation, wireline, sampling, and well intervention activities.
• Ensure operational data is complete, traceable, and suitable for technical analysis.
• Monitor implementation of approved well plans and identify deviations.
• Highlight changes requiring technical review or management approval.
• Recommend specialized tests, pilot programs, or trial applications before field‑wide implementation.
• Define objectives, evaluation criteria, and monitoring requirements for technology trials.
• Analyze trial results and recommend whether solutions should be expanded, modified, or discontinued.
• Investigate production technology problems affecting well performance.
• Coordinate technical studies involving completion equipment, logging tools, testing methods, stimulation, and production systems.
• Evaluate new technologies, equipment, and operating techniques.
• Recommend practical solutions based on technical performance, cost, risk, and field applicability.
• Prepare monthly estimates of available production and injection potential.
• Use flow test results, well status, rig activity, and hook‑up and commissioning schedules.
• Coordinate with operations and planning teams to maintain accurate field capacity forecasts.
• Identify wells available for production restoration or additional offtake.
• Establish priorities for reopening depleted or shut‑in wells.
• Consider reservoir constraints, production targets, injection requirements, and field balance.
• Recommend the sequence of well openings to achieve required field production.
• Maintain the approved balance between injection and production.
• Support planning of workovers, stimulation programs, wireline activities, production logging, and sampling.
• Review technical programs and ensure activities address identified well performance problems.
• Evaluate results after intervention and confirm whether objectives were achieved.
• Prepare technical studies, reports, performance summaries, and management recommendations.
• Provide inputs for management information systems and section progress reports.
• Present well performance risks, optimization opportunities, and proposed interventions clearly.
• Plan, supervise, and coordinate petroleum engineering activities within the assigned area.
• Train and develop assigned staff in well performance analysis and production engineering practices.
• Provide technical coaching and review work produced by junior engineers.
• Support departmental budget preparation and approved work plans.
• Highlight significant cost, performance, or schedule variances.
• Implement approved policies, standards, systems, and petroleum engineering procedures.
• Ensure activities comply with company requirements and recognized international practices.
• Contribute to departmental performance objectives and improvement programs.
• Develop tools and analytical methods that improve petroleum engineering efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to standardize studies, automate reporting, and improve data quality.
• Follow applicable health, safety, environmental, and sustainability requirements.
• Maintain effective working relationships with internal teams, consultants, contractors, service companies, and government entities.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering or an equivalent qualification.
• Minimum 6 years of experience across petroleum engineering operations.
• Strong experience in production engineering and well performance analysis.
• Practical knowledge of production and injection well completion design.
• Experience performing artificial lift selection, design, surveillance, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of well testing strategy, execution, and result interpretation.
• Practical capability in nodal analysis and production system optimization.
• Familiarity with pressure transient analysis and reservoir engineering support.
• Experience monitoring daily well performance and diagnosing production problems.
• Knowledge of workover, stimulation, wireline, sampling, and production logging operations.
• Ability to interpret field data, well tests, pressure history, and production trends.
• Understanding of drilling operations and their impact on well completion and performance.
• Experience maintaining well databases and technical operating records.
• Ability to evaluate new production technologies and field trial results.
• Strong understanding of reservoir constraints and production‑injection balance.
• Experience preparing production and injection capacity forecasts.
• Ability to prioritize well restoration and optimization activities.
• Strong analytical and structured problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate with reservoir, drilling, operations, workover, and well services teams.
• Strong technical reporting and presentation capability.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to supervise activities and develop less experienced employees.
• Strong commitment to HSE, technical quality, operational reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to undertake occasional field visits in heat, humidity, dust, and other prevailing conditions.

Skills Set

• Engineering
• Petroleum engineering
• Production engineering
• Well performance analysis
• Well completion design
• Completion requirements
• Artificial lift design
• Artificial lift optimization
• Well testing strategy
• Well test analysis
• Production surveillance
• Injection well monitoring
• Nodal analysis
• Production system optimization
• Pressure transient analysis
• Well diagnostics
• Workover planning
• Stimulation
• Wireline operations
• Production logging
• Well sampling
• Flow test analysis
• Well pressure history
• Production potential forecasting
• Injection potential forecasting
• Reservoir support
• Drilling support
• Well intervention
• Field data interpretation
• Production technology
• Well database management
• Oil well optimization
• Injection‑production balance
• Depleted well reopening
• Rig activity planning
• Hook‑up and commissioning
• Technical studies
• Performance reporting
• HSE compliance
• Team supervision
• Continuous improvement

Why Join Us

This opportunity provides responsibility for well performance, completion engineering, production optimization, and artificial lift support within Abu Dhabi Emirate's established Oil and Energy sector. The role directly influences production availability, well reliability, intervention effectiveness, and field development performance. The successful candidate will gain exposure to reservoir engineering, drilling, completions, workovers, well testing, production operations, and advanced petroleum engineering studies. The position offers a strong pathway toward senior production engineering, well performance leadership, petroleum engineering management, or field development roles.

About the Company

ADNOC Group is a major integrated energy organization headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with operations spanning exploration, production, processing, refining, petrochemicals, logistics, trading, and lower‑carbon energy solutions. Its upstream businesses apply advanced reservoir, drilling, completion, production, and well intervention technologies to maintain reliable output, improve resource recovery, and support safe and sustainable field development.