Drilling Engineer

Job Purpose/ Key Objectives:

• The Drilling Engineer will coordinate all well design and planning activities in the Company.
• The job holder will be the first level of Well planning delivery assurance work and may be required to lead a team of Drilling Engineers to plan, design and construct wells in compliance with the Company's policy and in line with the Company's long-term growth strategy.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead the actual well planning and design, working with a subsurface multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure all Wells basis of design documents comply with all Company policies and standards.
• Develop detailed engineering for all wells and ensure the drilling procedures are properly documented.
• Support the Supply Chain team during tender processes for provision of 3rd party services in well engineering.
• Monitor the design, specification and procurement of all well engineering hardware.
• Ensure all well engineering lessons learnt are documented, shared and included in subsequent wells drilling programmes.
• Develop and support the upkeep of the well cost estimating and tracking system.
• Maintain, review and re-integrate wells performance data for all subsequent well planning activity.
• Maintain an end-of-well report document and update it throughout the well life cycle.
• Ensure the Well design and operational requirements can be met by the rig specification.
• Mentor and develop young Drilling Engineers.
• Identify and evaluate appropriate offset wells.
• Lead internal well design reviews and risk assessments for assigned wells.
• Develop well designs and AFEs for assigned wells.
• Monitor well costs on a daily basis.
• Prepare and update depth vs days and depth vs cost curves.
• Ensure all final Well costs are properly documented in a Company wells reporting database such as Open Wells.
• Attend rig calls and provide technical support during daily drilling operations.
• Act as the primary contact for field engineering issues.
• Provide full-time engineering support to assigned drilling rig(s).
• Monitor daily morning report, and facilitate data error corrections and coding.
• Act as the primary contact for Well documentations (such as Open Wells files, well file population and management) for assigned wells.
• Ensure you are up-to-date with the Global Drilling Community Standards and SOP's.
• Prepare internal and external benchmarking and end of well reports.
• Coordinate and communicate end of well reviews.
• Support the joint review with the Reservoir Management Team or Exploration Team.
• Manage and monitor the Well cost budget preparation.
• Perform all other duties that are necessary and reasonably attached to this Drilling Engineer position and the fulfillment of its responsibilities.
• Any other responsibilities as assigned by the Well Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering or related discipline.
• Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Well Engineering, Drilling Engineering, or related discipline.
• Must have an IWCF Level 1 professional certification or higher.

Experience

• 4 to 6 years of relevant work experience in Well Engineering/Drilling Engineering in an oil and gas exploration & production company.
• Basic knowledge of well design theory and practice.

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• Basic understanding of drilling equipment, including top drives, iron roughnecks, pipe handlers, mud pumps, degassers, choke manifolds, BOPs, BOP control units, and other equipment is preferred.
• Good knowledge of the use of industry-recognized Well Engineering software such as Wellcat, Stresscheck, Drilling Office, WellPlan, and Compass.
• Demonstrate commitment to Health, Safety and Environmental performance, his/her behavior is influential to others in the organization.
• Strong knowledge of wells drilling and completion techniques and new technology.
• Must be a self-starter, inquisitive and confident to pursue new design and withstand challenges from peers.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal peer assistant/ supervision.
• Must be able to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ruthless bottom-line focus, ability to translate and articulate technical solutions into the key business drivers, SHES, cost and production.
• Thorough understanding of the Company's operations and profitability, in relation to the Well Engineering department contributing to and driving the bottom-line for the Company.
• Detailed understanding and application of the key drivers of operations and well reservoir management, including seismic, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, production technology, well engineering, process engineering, and production operations.
• Ability to translate complex operational and development issues into simple solutions.
• Readily accept views and guidance from supervisors and input from subordinates.

Personal Attributes

• Interact and work effectively with other professionals in groups or project teams and with other Company personnel.
• High level of independent thinking and reasoning, based on sound technical and commercial fundamentals.
• Ability to generate good quality technical reports.
• Ability and focus on driving own professional and career development (technical affiliations, Society of Petroleum Engineers etc.).
• Demonstrate high level of oral and written skills (English), good listening ability, demonstrate personal initiative and ability to mentor subordinates.