Senior Production Engineer

Senior Production Engineer
Aberdeen
£negotiable

This is a high profile position within the Production Department of a leading Oil and Gas operator in Aberdeen. In the role of Senior Production Engineer you will be responsible for production and injection surveillance, optimisation and forecasting - the role is key to optimising production, increasing well potential and improving uptime.

Duties & Responsibilities to include:-
To provide daily monitoring, evaluation, analysis of production/ injection performance against potential performance, maximize and optimize volumes.
To undertake daily production engineering & support to offshore production operations/ drilling/ subsea and well services - "from well sand face to point of delivery"; ensure that any financial, change request and cost commitment projections for any production engineering activity, has a clear workscope, cost and schedule prepared and approved before work commences
To generate weekly / monthly production forecast & injection targets and well test priorities
To provide short-term well production solutions that maximise well production within life of field, and cost and volume production/ support strategies
To be part of a small team and ideally "the first among equals" to identify, develop, plan and manage well operation; well testing; well intervention; subsea; plant operation or plant modification targets and priorities to maximize production and/or injection.
Complete post intervention assessment, to ensure continual improvement
Provide specialist technical expertise (and documented justification) for ensuring the safest and most cost effective methods of well/ subsea production, while minimising any loss of production revenue through evaluation of new technology and use of innovative techniques, computer simulation modelling, specific well/ production engineering procedures and equipment
Identify, investigate, audit and control technical change (within limit of discipline knowledge)
Develop and establish relevant, regular interface meetings between Exploitation (reservoir); Drilling; Well Services; Operations; (chemistry, volume eng, cost eng); Commercial and Finance sections of the organisation, ensuring all relevant managers are regularly appraised of Production Engineering issues.
Ensure robust cost control over all production engineering and allocated well engineering activities including interventions, repairs and change outs.

The ideal candidate will be degree qualified (or equivalent) in a related engineering discipline, with experience of working in a similar position in the past. Engineering experience in some or all of the following would be preferable:
Well inflow, outflow, vertical lift performance, flow assurance, gas lift, ESPs, stimulation, well intervention, and operations
Use and preparation of production design models and tools (e.g. simulation/ petroleum eng computer packages - Prosper, GAP, Pipesim, Hysis, Pro-11 etc, generic reservoir/ petroleum eng models, network well models, stimulation models, completion design)
Well functional design, well intervention, maintenance, performance evaluation, well testing, debottlenecking and plant performance

If you are interested or would like further information, please contact Joanne at Intec

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