Senior Advisor Reservoir Engineer

Description:

Job Summary

The Senior Advisor Reservoir Engineer is a reservoir engineering role within the Reservoir Management department, reporting to the Reservoir Management Manager. He or She leads the Reservoir engineering Discipline in Azule Energy to support business delivery and people technical development. The role requires an experienced people leader who is also a skilled practitioner in field development planning, Depletion planning and Reservoir management processes. Partner with Reservoir Management Section Lead, other Senior advisors, and Subject matter Experts to frame the required technical work, ensuring that work products are fit-for-purpose for the technical complexity and investment magnitude. The professional is expected to exhibit skills in a range of core areas in Reservoir Engineering and be an independent contributor in multi-disciplinary teams. He/She will also have the primary responsibility to coach less experienced reservoir engineers through on-the-job training and sharing of best practices.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Accountabilities

Define and deliver work standards – ensure the appropriate Subsurface discipline workflows, digital tools, processes, and data standards are at the heart of technical delivery. Support the Reservoir Manager and Reservoir Management Section leads to seek relevant expertise and drive technical excellence, providing technical coaching and verification as needed. Drive knowledge sharing and continuous improvement between teams.

Risk Management – Work with Reservoir Manager, Reservoir Management Section Lead and other Senior advisors to ensure that work planning is fit for purpose, cross discipline integration is appropriate and self-verification (SV) plans are in place and completed for technical work. Promote a technical “speak up” culture that probes understanding and communication of uncertainty and risk in the integrated products and drives closure of gaps identified through Self Verification

People Development – Actively support personal development needs, goal setting, and support create a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and sustainable performance delivery.

Responsibilities

Carrying out/updating the most challenging Reservoir Engineering studies, making dynamic models by using Company’s software (i.e. ECHELON, ECLIPSE,INTERSECT) based on well data records, PVT, seismic and rock data, properly reflecting the reservoir uncertainties

Interacting with the Geology and Geophysicist/Sedimentology and petrophysics advisors, whenever necessary, during the construction and valuation of static and dynamic models.

Proven ability to provide reservoir technical coaching, technical assurance, and leadership of Reservoirs, enabling action by showing direction and giving autonomy.

Empower and motivate people to seek technical guidance and own the quality of their technical work
- Use judgement to define when and how to influence stakeholders, when to provide support or direction, when to get directly involved in technical delivery or verification, and when to delegate accountability.
- Effectively communicate the key reservoir uncertainties that need to be integrated into business products from other disciplines and entities, supporting teams to frame their technical work, deliver appropriate business products and manage associated risks to business delivery.
- Carrying out regional reservoir studies & benchmarking as well as any important and specific Azule Energy training that may be necessary.
- Supporting key business decisions and project milestones, ensuring that subsurface uncertainty and risk management is understood, and new opportunities are properly evaluated.
- Ensure that appropriate appraisal and surveillance data is obtained in the exploration wells to evaluate development options and mitigate development risks and uncertainty, determine realistic development scenarios and assessing the commercial viability of the prospects.
- Verify that the quality of the wells hopper meets the minimum requirement to support well intervention planning and execution
- Ensure quality field development plan scenarios generated, including alternative depletion strategies, reservoir management plans, and surveillance plans, while providing risk identification throughout the appraisal and development phases of projects.
- Ensures personal compliance with Azule-energy code of conduct and values.
Main Interfaces
- Reservoir Management Manager – to ensure alignment with the overall Azule Reservoir Management plans and how it connects with the Azule Business Plan.
- Reservoir Management Section Leads – to ensure the quality of the technical delivery corresponds to the task set up by the Reservoir Management Section Leads and aligned with Azule Business Plan.
- Azule Subsurface Senior Advisors – to ensure standardization and consistency of procedures and practices within Azule Subsurface.
- Production Management Section Leads – to ensure production and injection targets are aligned with field depletion plans and long-term reserves delivery.
- Drilling and Wells Section Lead – to make sure reservoir subsurface activities are properly supporting and enabling drilling and wells plans.
- Data management Section lead – to make sure data management issues, migration, integration, technical and data quality issues are resolved and actively seeking to apply data science techniques; automation and machine learning, including the use of analytical and visualisation tools to translate data and interpreted results into actionable insights and value.
- Production Forecasting advisor – to ensure alignment between short-term and long-term production forecast.
Desired Skills & Experience
- >15 years of directly relevant experience
- Major experience with practical application of reservoir engineering principles to optimize reserves, recovery factors and production under various reservoir production strategies in oil and gas reservoirs.
- Extensive experience in waterflood management and developing reservoir management plans.
- Proven English language proficiency, both written and spoken
Requirements
Essential experience and skills & competencies

>15 years of directly relevant experience on reservoir modelling, with emphasis field development planning and integration of surveillance data

Extensive experience in model building and reservoir simulation

Able to communicate with a range of other subsurface teams to integrate diverse data for reservoir understanding.

Encourage and facilitate cooperation within and between teams to develop a subsurface community that supports and learns from each other.

Able to manage multiple activities and quickly respond to changing business priorities.

Proven English language proficiency, both written and spoken

Proven interpersonal skills, with the ability to work in multi-cultural, multidiscipline environment.

Established history of skills development and mentoring of junior engineers

Essential Education

Bachelor or Higher Degree of Science in Petroleum Engineering or a closely related discipline

Msc/PhD Preferred

Working Conditions

Onshore, no rotation, occasionally trip offshore for well start up or interventions