HEAD, RESERVOIR STUDIES (MM-ALR)

QatarEnergy; Doha; On-site; QAR 655,000 - 1,019,000; Full time

Job summary

QatarEnergy seeks a senior geosciences and reservoir engineering expert to lead multidisciplinary teams in MM and ALR development projects. You will oversee studies, forecasts and development plans, ensuring high technical quality and alignment with corporate objectives.

The role requires strong leadership, independence, and international collaboration across contractors and consultants. A highly experienced professional will drive optimization and strategic subsurface initiatives within a

Qualifications

• 15+ years in upstream Oil & Gas exploration, development and production.
• Authority in geosciences and reservoir engineering with senior leadership experience.
• Strong contract management and cross-cultural collaboration capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate Geological, Geophysical, Petrophysical and Reservoir Engineering work for MM and ALR reservoirs.
• Initiate and coordinate integrated Geosciences and Reservoir studies to optimize oil, gas and condensate recovery.
• Ensure robust field development planning with sound subsurface model assumptions.
• Coordinate reserves estimation and production forecasting per internal guidelines.
• Contribute to annual reservoir management plans for field performance optimization.
• Provide input for well proposals and review drilling/workover plans.
• Identify subsurface uncertainties and design data acquisition strategies.
• Participate in annual budget planning and resource staffing.

Skills

Leadership

Geosciences

Reservoir engineering

Team management

Commercial skills

Contract management

Education

BSc Geoscience or Engineering

MSc or PhD in Geoscience/Engineering

Job description

Primary Purpose of the Job

Provide the front end studies to mature ca 600 mln BOE of contingent resources to reserves for Maydan Mahzam, Bul Hanine & Al-Rayyan (MM, BH & ALR).

The incumbent will supervise and lead Geologists, Geophysicists, Petrophysicists and Reservoir Engineers. Carry out duties associated with geosciences and reservoir engineering studies & activities to meet Development Department objectives of Maydan Mahzam (MM) & Al-Rayyan (ALR) fields. The subsurface studies include both, the developed reserves, and the discovered undeveloped reserves.

Required Experience and Skills

Experience & Skills

15+ years' work experience in the upstream Oil & Gas exploration, development and production businesses. This must include a minimum of 10 years direct technical experience in reservoir geosciences and reservoir engineering, subsurface field development, and direct operational experience is desirable. A good level of technical experience is required covering all fundamental areas of geosciences, petrophysics and reservoir engineering for both oil field development. Recognized within the industry to be an authority in his discipline.

Good commercial skills are required due to the high level of interaction with contractors and consultants, and the accountability for initiating and administering contracts for these services.

The position requires strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills. The incumbent must be motivated and have a high degree of self-confidence. Must have complete self-reliance and able to work with a high degree of independence.

The position requires high levels of expertise in working in multi-national teams, supervising, fostering teamwork across many cultures and nationalities, and ability to plan, organize and execute.

1. Manages asset study team: Plan and coordinate Geological, Geophysical, Petrophysical and Reservoir Engineering related work on all the reservoirs in MM and ALR.
2. Integrated Reservoir Studies: Initiate and coordinate a wide range of internal and external integrated Geosciences and Reservoir studies for all reservoirs in MM and ALR, to optimize recovery of oil, gas and condensate. Coordinate their execution and ensures high technical quality based on sound geosciences and reservoir engineering principles and appropriately integrated into business process and aligned with agreed goals and budget.
3. Field Development Planning and Implementation: Ensure robustness of geosciences and reservoir engineering related methods and assumptions (Geological, Geophysical, Petrophysical, PVT, SCAL, and reservoir properties) in subsurface models applied for development plans covering all reservoirs.
4. Reserves Determination and Production Forecasting: In accordance to QP-PRMS-based guidelines, coordinate in-place volume estimates for/and prepare the Annual Review of Reserves and long-term oil, gas and condensate production forecasts.
5. Reservoir Management and Field Performance Optimization: Contribute to the annual reservoir management plans for optimization of the field’s performance.
6. Drilling and Workovers: Coordinate geosciences and reservoir engineering input for well proposals for appraisal, near field exploration, production, and injection wells. Review drilling, workover and well abandonment plans.
7. Risk Management: Identify subsurface uncertainties and develops plans to acquire geosciences and reservoir engineering related data to mitigate the associated risks.
8. Annual Budget Planning: Participate and contribute to annual budget process.
9. Organizational development: Ensure that geosciences and reservoir engineering team is adequately resourced with appropriate staff through recruitment and retention of world class professionals. Foster a positive and rewarding work environment for existing staff. Ensure training of staff to internationally competitive standards and prepares development plans for Developees. Participate in interview panels for geosciences and reservoir engineers’ positions.

Desirable

The position is accountable for recommending objectives and deliverables for geosciences and reservoir engineering related studies which will define future development strategies for the fields. These studies are conducted either internally within the department or outsourced to commercial contractors or to international oil companies. The incumbent supervises their execution ensuring technical quality, alignment with agreed goals, and conformity with agreed budgets.

The position oversees and participates in conducting the studies required to define the number and location of new wells for QP operated oil fields. These decisions directly affect the deliverability, cost, and reserves developed by these wells.

The position is accountable for the staffing and structure of the Geosciences and Reservoir Engineering Team organization, which has a current establishment of 10.

The position is accountable for initiating and managing contracts to support geosciences and reservoir engineering related studies. These contracts are awarded on a competitive basis to service companies and the incumbent sets deliverables for these contracts.

Context / Special Features / Challenges

The incumbent must be able to develop and communicate a technically robust subsurface vision of future development options, and then develop a strategy for evaluating these options to select the ones which maximize value for the corporation. This task is strategic, very complex and multi-dimensional. It requires the ability to synthesize a very wide range of information and the ability to then place all of it in a coherent logic strategic framework. This requires a high level effective strategic thinking coupled with strong commercial knowledge.

Some degree of ambiguity and uncertainty is usually encountered in arriving at the optimal solution for these problems. The incumbent exercises high degree of discretion and authority in finding solutions to related issues / problems.

Educational Qualifications

BSc degree in Geoscience or Engineering is the minimum technical requirement for this position.

MSc or PhD in these subjects is desirable.