Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore Development

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE; Al Ruways Industrial City; On-site; AED 468,720 - 647,280; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to work with ADNOC Group

Collaborative technical environment

Career development in petroleum engineering

Job summary

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE is seeking a Senior Petroleum Engineer for offshore development in the Oil and Energy sector. The role involves well design concepts, production optimisation, and evaluation of offshore field developments.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering and a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience. The position offers a competitive salary package and opportunities for career development.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years of experience in petroleum engineering.
• Strong experience in offshore development and production optimisation.
• Ability to review test pressures and production trends.

Responsibilities

• Review design concepts for offshore wells.
• Evaluate well types and configurations.
• Optimize total well count to meet development concepts.

Skills

Offshore field development

Well design review

Production optimisation

Hydraulic fracturing

Reservoir performance analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering

Job description

Role Summary

Senior Petroleum Engineer – Offshore Development – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Oil and Energy industry, Engineering function. Full‑time role.

Focus on well design concepts, offshore field development, production optimisation, integrated production system models, and life‑cycle evaluation of wells and facilities. The role requires strong knowledge of well completions, production testing, re‑entry programmes, artificial lift, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, reservoir performance analysis, and offshore development planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Review design concepts for offshore wells and facilities across field development plans and operating field life‑cycle requirements.
• Evaluate well types and configurations including production wells, injection wells, vertical wells, deviated wells, horizontal wells, and multilateral wells.
• Optimize the total number of wells required to meet development concepts while considering tubing, production casing size, artificial lift requirements, re‑completion needs, and abandonment planning.
• Provide specialised petroleum engineering input based on subsurface development scenarios.
• Support design optimisation for surface facilities by reviewing required capacity, well location, well count, intra‑field pipelines, and export pipeline requirements.
• Review studies prepared by ADNOC Group companies, shareholders, and SPC companies related to field development plans, well construction, completion design, well performance, and data gathering programmes.
• Evaluate test pressures, flow rates, gas quality, well history, and known reservoir or production conditions to identify improvement opportunities.
• Recommend actions, technologies, and additional studies to optimise field development plans and operational efficiency.
• Review proposals for hydraulic fracturing, special tests, stimulation, completion programmes, contractor services, and equipment costs.
• Participate in preparing proposals for well completions, testing, re‑entry programmes, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift, corrosion inhibition, and scaling inhibition.
• Review well history, verify wellhead and downhole pressures, assess flow rates, and recommend suitable technologies or innovative designs.
• Evaluate contractor services, tools, equipment, and implementation options in coordination with technical and production functions.
• Review production and test data to provide technical feedback on well performance and highlight anomalies for further investigation.
• Evaluate re‑entry candidates and remedial options within drilling and rig‑less operation sequences.
• Review related well performance and recommend additional tests, specialised sample analysis, short‑term solutions or further technical studies.
• Liaise with offshore assets to review production data acquisition, analyse procedures and recommend improvements where feasible.
• Coordinate with ADNOC assets to review improved oil recovery technologies, enhancement studies and field optimisation methods.
• Ensure quality of tools, processes, workflows and studies used in offshore field optimisation and Abu Dhabi oil and gas reservoir development.
• Ensure practices and technical solutions comply with ADNOC health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Support implementation of ADNOC best practice technical standards and codified analytical workflows.
• Provide inputs for weekly development highlights, daily production reports, monthly allocation reports, drilling bar charts, barge schedules and other management reports.
• Prepare inputs for sub‑committee meetings including ARPR, PDISC and TCM, and attend relevant meetings to provide technical feedback.
• Support recommendations to management and contribute to development of in‑house tools and workflow concepts.
• Represent ADNOC in technical meetings with group companies, shareholders, SPC companies, contractors, vendors, universities, academic institutions and other third parties.
• Review and comment on petroleum engineering projects related to developed oil and gas reservoirs.
• Coordinate information flow, data requirements, investigations and projects across upstream functions.
• Attend project progress meetings and provide advice within the petroleum engineering area of expertise.
• Follow up on information requests, investigation requests, technical findings and recommendations with relevant departments and stakeholders.
• Monitor consultant work to ensure timely achievement of project milestones, quality standards and deliverables.
• Maintain close interaction with multidisciplinary team members to support integrated field development and reservoir optimisation.
• Participate in testing and evaluation of commercial petroleum engineering tools and software.
• Recommend software, tools and technical solutions that meet ADNOC requirements in a cost‑effective manner.
• Organise and participate in petroleum engineering discipline meetings to support knowledge transfer across upstream functions and ADNOC assets.
• Promote transfer of technology and industry experience from shareholders and external technical partners.
• Provide hands‑on technical coaching to junior and senior staff to strengthen petroleum engineering capability.
• Plan, supervise and coordinate assigned engineering activities to meet functional objectives.
• Provide input for function and department budgets and support approved budget and work plan implementation.
• Identify budget variances and support performance and cost control.
• Implement approved policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in line with company and international standards.
• Contribute to department performance objectives under the company performance framework.
• Design and implement tools and techniques to improve operational process quality and engineering efficiency.
• Identify process improvements based on industry best practices and international standards.
• Comply with HSE policies, sustainability guidelines, ADNOC Code of Practices, applicable legislation and safe working requirements.
• Provide inputs for MIS reports, progress reports and company management updates.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in petroleum engineering.
• Strong experience in offshore field development, well design review, production optimisation and reservoir performance analysis.
• Knowledge of production and injection wells, vertical wells, deviated wells, horizontal wells, multilateral wells, completions, re‑entry planning and abandonment requirements.
• Experience reviewing well construction, completion designs, well production performance, injection performance and data gathering programmes.
• Strong understanding of integrated production system models, surface facility requirements, pipeline capacity, well location optimisation and development concept evaluation.
• Practical knowledge of stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift, corrosion inhibition, scaling inhibition, production testing and special well programmes.
• Ability to review test pressures, flow rates, gas quality, downhole pressures, wellhead pressures, production trends and well history.
• Experience with re‑entry candidate evaluation, remedial work options, drilling sequences and rig‑less operation support.
• Knowledge of improved oil recovery, reservoir optimisation, petroleum engineering software and commercial technical tools.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary upstream teams, offshore assets, contractors, vendors, consultants, shareholders and ADNOC Group companies.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to coach, guide and develop professionals.
• Strong analytical, communication, reporting, coordination and technical presentation skills.
• Ability to work in an office environment with occasional exposure to heat, humidity, dust and offshore or site visit conditions.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi’s strategic Oil and Energy sector.
• Exposure to offshore field development, petroleum engineering studies, reservoir optimisation and production enhancement projects.
• Career development in well design, completion strategy, stimulation, artificial lift, improved oil recovery and integrated production system modelling.
• Collaborative technical environment involving upstream functions, offshore assets, shareholders, contractors, consultants and technical partners.
• Opportunity to contribute to high‑impact oil and gas production objectives using advanced engineering tools and ADNOC technical standards.
• Market‑estimated salary package aligned with senior petroleum engineering roles in Abu Dhabi’s energy sector.

Benefits and Compensation

Salary: AED 42,000 – 58,000 per month (market estimated).