Senior EOR/IOR Operations Leader | Field Optimization

Baker Hughes; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contemporary work-life balance

Wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care

Life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefit

Job summary

Baker Hughes in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Senior EOR/IOR Operations Specialist to lead screening, design maturation, and on-site surveillance for mature fields, integrating waterflood, gas injection, chemical EOR, and hybrid approaches.

You will assess reservoir suitability, injectant availability, facilities needs, and commercial value while translating opportunities into robust technical and commercial propositions, engaging senior stakeholders across product and execution teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, chemical engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years experience in reservoir engineering and EOR/IOR design, screening, piloting, implementation, or field optimization.
• Strong understanding of recovery mechanisms, injection systems, facilities interfaces, surveillance strategies, and value drivers.
• Ability to defend recovery concepts and investment cases with senior technical, commercial, and leadership stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leading the screening and selection of fit-for-purpose recovery improvement concepts for mature fields, covering waterflood optimization, gas injection, chemical EOR, thermal methods, conformance control and hybrid approaches.
• Assessing reservoir suitability, injectant availability, facilities requirements, well deliverability, surveillance design, operational readiness, commercial value, and execution risks as one integrated system.
• Bringing first-hand experience from EOR/IOR projects that moved beyond studies into design maturation, implementation, start-up surveillance, and performance monitoring, including lessons learned from what did and did not work in the field.
• Understanding the technologies, chemicals, equipment, surveillance tools, injection systems and operational services needed to deliver an EOR/IOR concept. Engage the right product or technical authority during design when needed.
• Quantifying incremental recovery, production impact, uncertainty ranges, implementation risks, and value drivers for screening, ranking, and investment decision support.
• Translating EOR/IOR opportunities into differentiated technical and commercial propositions, including assumptions, execution pathways, partnership needs, and risk mitigation plans.
• Challenging recovery assumptions, benchmark analogs, guide junior specialists, and ensure EOR/IOR inputs are technically robust and decision-ready.

Skills

Reservoir engineering

EOR/IOR design

Screening & piloting

Execution risk management

Stakeholder communication

Education

BSc/MSc in Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline

Job description

Baker Hughes in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Senior EOR/IOR Operations Specialist to lead screening, design maturation, and on-site surveillance for mature fields, integrating waterflood, gas injection, chemical EOR, and hybrid approaches.

You will assess reservoir suitability, injectant availability, facilities needs, and commercial value while translating opportunities into robust technical and commercial propositions, engaging senior stakeholders across product and execution teams.