Strategic & Delivery Outcomes
- Protect the ME from its biggest technical risk: accepting wells the fleet cannot safely drill.
- Drive the performance curve: days-vs-depth improving campaign over campaign.
- Make AFE-support estimates reliable enough for ME-18 to bank.
Functional / Operational Responsibilities
- Basis of design, drilling/completion/intervention programs, casing/cement/mud design, BOP configuration and test regimes.
- Offset analysis and NPT trend integration; DWOP/CWOP facilitation; MOC ownership for program changes.
- Technical screen on every tender (W6); veto documented and escalatable only to the Board.
- End-of-well reports ≤ 15 days with benchmarking; engineering support to operations during execution.
Governance, Controls & Compliance
- No spud without an approved program and closed DWOP actions.
- Well-control-critical MOCs require DW-01 co-approval.
- Program assumptions documented; deviations analyzed, never buried.
Stakeholder & Leadership Responsibilities
- Operator drilling/subsurface teams; ME-07 Subsurface for targets and pore pressure; rig supervision for executability reviews.
- ME-18 for AFE-support estimates; ME-16 for HSE input to programs.
- B.Sc./B.Eng. Petroleum Engineering or related; M.Sc. an advantage.
- IWCF (engineer level) current; drilling engineering software competencies per toolkit.
- 10+ years well engineering with programs drilled in the Niger Delta (swamp/land preferred); HPHT exposure an advantage (for screening, not acceptance).
- Track record of DWOP facilitation and end-of-well benchmarking.
Technical Skills & Systems
Casing and tubing design; torque & drag / hydraulics modelling; cement design; pore-pressure interpretation; AFE estimation; offset data analysis.
Behavioral Competencies (Obek Values)
- Innovation improves every program, procedure and rig-up they touch; leaves things better documented than they found them.
- Excellence "the well doesn't care about excuses"; program discipline, daily-report discipline and the statutory clock are sacred.
- Collaboration a credible partner to operators, crews, regulators, service partners and the other MEs.
- Integrity & discretion reports honestly (NPT, incidents, costs) and handles client well data with absolute confidentiality.
- Safety of Personnel lives the stop-work authority; no barrel, no day-rate and no deadline outranks a life.