Senior Production Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to drive operational excellence in maximizing economic production. In this pivotal role, you will optimize reservoir and well performance, implement intervention strategies, and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure effective production management. Your expertise will be crucial in developing comprehensive well management strategies and generating accurate short-term production forecasts. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a sustainable energy future while working in a dynamic and innovative environment that values your skills and insights.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in production and reservoir engineering is essential.
• A degree in Engineering or Geoscience is required.

Responsibilities

• Maximize economic production by optimizing reservoir and well performance.
• Generate short-term production forecasts and manage well interventions.
• Collaborate with production teams to enhance operational excellence.

Skills

Production Engineering

Reservoir Optimization

Data Management

Intervention Strategies

Collaboration with Stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Job Profile Title: Senior Production Engineer

Reports to: Operations Lead (FCA/ MAB)

Area: FCA/ MAB

Location: Aberdeen

PPM Grade: Senior Professional

About the Company: Repsol is a multi-energy company committed to a sustainable world with a forward-looking vision based on innovation, efficiency, respect, and value creation to drive progress in society. We are present across the entire value chain: exploration and production, transformation, development, and marketing of energy that is efficient, sustainable, and competitive for millions of people. With over 80 years of experience, Repsol has been present in the entire oil and gas value chain in a sustainable and competitive way.

About the Role: The Senior Production Engineer is responsible for maximizing economic production by optimizing reservoir and well performance, identifying and executing opportunities to enhance production through interventions, and generating short-term production forecasts. The Senior Production Engineer interacts with regulatory authorities. Additionally, oversees well management strategies, collaborates on process optimization, ensures accurate data management, and interfaces with internal and external stakeholders to drive operational excellence and compliance.

Responsibilities:

1. Key focal point for offshore production team to support maximizing economic production by optimizing reservoir, well, and process plant performance.
2. Identify, justify, and execute opportunities to enhance production through well intervention or modifications to process and water injection systems.
3. Generate short-term production forecasts.
4. Interact with NSTA to submit elements of the Stewardship returns and manage production and flare consents.
5. Manage studies conducted by third-party contractors and vendors.
6. Monitor daily production to ensure reservoirs and wells perform as expected, investigate, and resolve any anomalies.
7. Collaborate with the Production Function to establish short-term production strategy and targets, monitor performance against agreed targets and manage production losses.
8. Understand and control reservoir displacement processes to optimize economic recovery.
9. Continuously review fields and well performance to ensure they produce to their peak potential, identify opportunities for improvement.
10. Develop and maintain an artificial lift strategy, ensuring it is communicated, understood, and applied by the offshore operations team.
11. Identify, justify, and promote opportunities to improve production or reduce costs through optimization of artificial lift systems, sweep pattern alterations, well interventions, or other means.
12. Support other groups in justifying and implementing opportunities, such as facilities upgrades.
13. Develop and maintain a comprehensive well management strategy for all wells throughout their lifespan.
14. Create data acquisition programs to monitor reservoir performance, validate reservoir management strategies, and identify business opportunities while mitigating risks.
15. Analyze and interpret field data acquired to inform decision-making processes.
16. Collaborate with the Wells Engineering group to address new well design aspects, including completion interval selection, tubing design, and ESP/gas lift design.
17. Coordinate with the Wells Management group to prioritize and schedule well intervention activities.
18. Monitor process plant performance, including separators and gas compressors, to minimize flaring and ensure export oil and produced water meet specifications.
19. Monitor water injection system performance to ensure injection water quality meets specifications.
20. Collaborate with production chemists to optimize chemical usage.
21. Develop and maintain a strategy and procedures for optimizing process plant and water injection system performance, ensure understanding and application by the offshore operations team.
22. Identify, justify, and promote opportunities to improve production and reduce costs through optimization of the process plant and water injection system.
23. Prepare accurate short-term production forecasts aligned with facilities constraints and ongoing work programs.
24. Maintain an updated record of re-forecasts, ensuring accessibility and accuracy.
25. Ensure consistency of forecasts with corporate Life of Field forecasts and reserve estimates.
26. Ensure effective and timely close out of Synergi, ICP, or PLMS actions.

Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Geoscience, or a related field.

Required Skills: Extensive experience in production/petroleum/reservoir engineering/operations/maintenance/marine with Oil & Gas operating companies.

Equal Opportunity Statement: We are an equal opportunity employer, aiming to recruit, retain and develop our people based on merit. Recognizing the value of a diverse workforce, all applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of any characteristics protected by law.