West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP) is a registered company with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria, with RC No: 1173358. We have a strategic partnership/alliance with Dangote Exploration Assets Limited (80%), Dansa Energy Resources Limited (5%) and First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (15%).
In 2015, WAEP acquired a 45% working interest in OML 71 and OML 72 from the SPDC JV (Shell Petroleum and Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited). The company is the operator of OML 71 and OML 72 on behalf of the WAEP-NNPC JV. These blocks are located south of the Bonny Island. There are 7 major discovered fields in OML 72 namely – Kalaekule, KD, Koronama, Kugbe, KL, KQ, Kappa, while OML 71 has 2 main fields called KI and KI south.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Well Planning Engineer
Job Location: Lagos
Department: Wells
Report to: Wells Manager / EGM Wells
- Develop integrated well plans, schedules, cost estimates and execution readiness requirements to support safe and efficient delivery of drilling completion, intervention and abandonment activities.
- Develop integrated well activity plans and detailed execution schedules in collaboration with Wells and asset teams.
- Coordinate technical inputs for well design, sequencing. logistics, contracting and operational readiness.
- Develop and maintain well planning assumptions, time estimates, cost forecasts and look-ahead plans.
- Identify critical-path activities, schedule risks and readiness gaps and coordinate mitigation actions.
- Support preparation and assurance of well programmes, decision-gate documentation and execution readiness reviews.
- Integrate rig, vessel, materials, personnel and service- company requirements into executable plans.
- Track planning milestones and report deviations, constraints and recovery actions.
- Support annual Wells work programmes, budgets and campaign planning.
- Maintain planning records, lessons learned and performance benchmarks for continuous improvement.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Safe and timely delivery of assigned activities
- Compliance with planned maintenance/well execution schedules
- Quality and accuracy of technical documentation and reporting
- Reduction of operational downtime, failures or non- productive time as applicable
- HSE and regulatory compliance
- Effective contractor/stakeholder coordination
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
- 8-12 years of relevant upstream oil and gas experience with substantial wells planning/execution exposure.
- Proficiency in recognized planning/scheduling tools; project management certification is an added advantage.
- Integrated well planning
- Scheduling and critical-path analysis
- Cost and time estimation Operational readiness
- Risk management
- Wells logistics integration
- Performance reporting
- Multidisciplinary coordination
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@waepco.com using "Well Planning Engineer Application" as the subject of the email.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.