Career as Chief Petroleum Engineer (staff) at UK

Chief Petroleum Engineer (staff)
Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Our client is an established and highly ambitious Oil & Gas Operator with assets in 16 countries worldwide.
They have a requirement for a Chief Petroleum Engineer to lead their team in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
You will have demonstrable reservoir/production engineering support experience, working within a multidisciplinary subsurface team in support of field development.

You will have proven management skills and the ability to lead a team. Candidates must be coming from a strong Technical PE background.

This role will require a high level of interaction with other sections of business - Well services / Drilling / Completions.

Reporting to the Geoscience Manager, you will carry out Petroleum Engineering studies, oversee and coach/mentor junior PE engineers in work across a large number of offshore/SNS gas projects.

This is a staff role and candidates must be looking for long term development within the organisation.

Highly competitive salary & benefits package offered.

Requirements
* Degree in Petroleum Engineering
* Relevant experience in oil/gas industry - minimum of 12 years following graduation.
* Solid background in a development and production environment.
* Experience of industry standard software packages. In particular familiarity with Prosper, Mbal, GAP and OFM.
* Ability to train and mentor junior members of staff.
* Thorough knowledge of reservoir engineering fundamentals.
* Good understanding of the principles of field development planning.

Key responsibilities:
* Reservoir monitoring and reporting to both partners and authorities.
* Carry out petroleum engineering studies.
* Communicate through verbal, presentation and written medium, the progress and the findings of the study.
* Participate and coordinate HQ production group studies.
* Ensure good data transmission, well operation time schedule and related field observation to HQ engineers.
* In coordination with subsidiary's production department, ensure that approved recommendations are implemented.
* Responsible of the production database which includes monthly allocation, well tests, parameters, events, deviation and static pressure data.
* Responsible for both data quality and data entry process from the field to HQ.
* Prepares well surveillance plans, processes and tools for efficiently monitoring well performance.
* Assess and report reservoir and well performance, identify performance deviations, production improvement options and additional surveillance needs.
* Diagnosis well performance deviations to identify causes. Forwards reservoir issues to reservoir engineers/Geoscience Manager.
* Coordinate with drilling and operations to schedule well and reservoir surveillance data gathering activities in the field to minimize the impact.
* Well Optimization & Well test planning/design and interpretation

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