Senior Production Technologist

Role Purpose

• The Senior Production Technologist provides technical leadership for well and production-system performance, production optimization, well integrity support and intervention opportunity maturation to maximize safe, reliable and economic hydrocarbon production.

Core Competencies

• Well performance and nodal analysis Production optimization
• Well intervention opportunity maturation Artificial lift
• Completion and well design support Well integrity awareness
• Production forecasting
• Integrated production-system modelling
• Technical assurance
• Cross-functional collaboration

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Incremental production delivered from optimization initiatives
• Well-performance improvement
• Accuracy of production opportunity forecasts
• Intervention opportunity maturation and success
• Production deferment reduction
• Technical assurance compliance
• Quality of production technology studies and recommendations

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze well performance and identify constraints, underperformance and production optimization opportunities.
• Perform nodal analysis and well-performance modelling to optimize tubing, choke, artificial-lift and operating strategies. Identify, evaluate and mature well intervention, stimulation, workover and production-enhancement opportunities.
• Provide production technology input to new well design, completion strategy and Field Development Plans.
• Support artificial-lift selection, optimization troubleshooting where applicable. and
• Analyze well-test, pressure, production and fluid data to diagnose well and near-wellbore performance issues.
• Support well integrity surveillance and remediation planning in collaboration with Wells and Operations teams.
• Develop production forecasts and opportunity portfolios and track realized production gains against plan.
• Participate in integrated production-system optimization covering reservoir, wells, flowlines and facilities constraints.
• Provide technical assurance, coach junior staff and document lessons learned and production-technology best practices.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Relevant Master's Degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum 10-12 years' relevant upstream production technology/production engineering experience. Relevant professional engineering membership or certification is desirable.