Well Intervention Specialist

Saudi Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Well Intervention Specialist who will be responsible for planning and executing rigless well intervention operations. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor’s in Mechanical or Petroleum engineering and 10-15 years of relevant experience. This role involves using advanced technologies and practices to enhance operational efficiency and safety in unconventional wells.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years’ experience in rigless well intervention operations.
• Extensive knowledge of industry regulations and safety practices.
• Experience with high pressure & high temperature (HPHT) operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan well intervention activities and validate completions.
• Run all types of intervention operations in unconventional wells.
• Conduct investigations and root cause analyses.

Skills

Rigless well intervention operations

Design and planning of wireline operations

Slickline and coiled tubing operation

Well performance modeling

Downhole remediation practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Petroleum engineering

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

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 Well Intervention Specialist to join Unconventional Resources Completion Engineering Division (URCED) under the Unconventional Resources Completion Operations Department URCOD.

The URCED responsible for providing required completion engineering support for unconventional fields, the support includes multi-stage hydraulic fracture design, execution and evaluation, well completion design, in addition to day-to-day engineering and operations support for field rig-less activities.

The well intervention specialist primary role is to provide required support for rigless well intervention operations (wireline, slickline, coiled tubing and snubbing) including but not limited to plug and perf frac operations, post frac wellbore coiled tubing cleanout, through tubing fishing and milling operations, in addition to evaluation and deployment of new technologies related to well intervention operation. The intervention specialist will also be in charge of site visit and attendance of critical operation when needed.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Responsible for planning the well intervention activities and for the review and validation when completed, and for providing solution for wells with integrity issues with support of well completion specialist.
• Responsible for routine well Intervention, well diagnostics and proficient in downhole remediation practices and capable for preparing field operational procedures.
• Responsible for well and field completion performance and integrity modeling using industry recognized software. Ensure departmental compliance with mandated regulations and standards through constant monitoring and support for ongoing and future operations and make sure well barriers requirements are maintained in all types of intervention.
• Run all types intervention operations required in unconventional wells: Completion design, Tubing movements, Coiled tubing, Wireline, slick line, Hydraulic fracturing, flow back and capable of issuing a complete detailed program for each type of operation.
• Familiar with wellhead and downhole completion design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Capable for providing solutions to enhance well intervention operation, cost and safety.
• Conduct an investigation when issues occur and finalize root cause analysis.
• Lead special projects and studies such as new technology trial test and participate. in the company engineering standard review and the development of young professionals.

Minimum requirements

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Petroleum engineering from a recognized and approved program.
• You will have 10-15 years’ experience in rigless well intervention operations that includes design, planning and execution of wireline, slickline and coiled tubing operation in critical sour gas and preferably unconventional operational environment.
• Experience in unconventional resources or Hight pressure & High Temperature (HPHT), tight gas & oil well with a very good understanding of well intervention and stimulation operation and its impact on well completion.
• Extensive knowledge of industry regulations, safety practices and standards related to surface and downhole equipment selection.
• Experience in optimization of surface well intervention operation using latest new technologies and best practices.
• Experience in fishing operation using Slickline (SL) or Coiled Tubing (CT).

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.