Production Engineer

Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Aramco is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to join the Unconventional Production Engineering Department within the Unconventional Resources. The role covers production analysis for unconventional gas fields, with emphasis on planning, intervention, and system design to optimize liquid loading and artificial lift strategies.

Based in Saudi Arabia, the position requires deep experience in production engineering and a strong command of related software tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from a recognized program; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of subsurface production engineering experience, including 5+ years in unconventional fields.
• Proficiency with production system analysis software and artificial lift design software.

Responsibilities

• Perform production system analysis for unconventional gas wells to meet production targets.
• Perform predictive analysis for liquid loading prediction for artificial lift installation planning.
• Provide technical support for well intervention and well integrity activities.
• Design plunger lift and rod lift systems for gas well deliquification.
• Provide technical support for artificial lift selection and facilities design basis requirements.
• Coordinate with other unconventional departments to align well completion and surface facilities interfaces.
• Provide daily support for production data management and verify production forecasts.

Skills

Production system analysis

Artificial lift design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

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Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a senior Production Engineer to join Unconventional Production Engineering Department URPED withing the Unconventional Resources.

URPED is responsible for providing production engineering support to Aramco Unconventional gas fields, including setting up gas production strategy, production analysis and optimization, completion design, artificial lift lifting and well integrity.

Your primary role is to perform day to day production engineering support for unconventional gas fields, including but not limited to production system analysis for naturally flowing and artificially lifted wells, in addition to well testing, well integrity, well intervention planning.

Key Responsibilities:

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Perform production system analysis for unconventional gas wells to ensure meeting production targets.
• Perform predictive analysis for liquid loading prediction for artificial lift installation planning.
• Provide technical support for well intervention and well integrity activities.
• Design plunger lift and rod lift systems for gas well deliquification.
• Provide technical support for artificial lift selection, facilities design basis requirements, well completion for natural flow and artificial lift systems.
• Work with other unconventional departments to align well completion, drilling, surface facilities interface activities to ensure.
• Provide daily support for production data management to ensure and validate well testing reports, well activities record and update production forecast.

As the successful candidate you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from a recognized and approved program. Master degree is an advanced degree is preferred.
• You will have a Minimum of 15 years of experience in subsurface production engineering for sour gas fields including at least 5 years in unconventional fields.
• Professional in using production system analysis software’s and artificial lift design software.

Work Location and Work Schedule

Work location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer

Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer

Job Posting Duration:

Job posting end date: 02/16/2027

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.