Friday, May 28, 2010

Vacancies in an Oil and Gas Firm

A fast growing group of companies and a major player in the oil and gas industry with strong international and multinational affiliation. As a result of the need to restructure, refocus, re-strategisze and expand the scope of our business activities, we are seeking the services of technocrats and seasoned professionals in the following areas:

Job Title: DEVELOPMENT GEOLOGIST
General Summary

• Extensive experience in all areas of development geology including but not limited to sound understanding of clastic depositional environments, structural geology, sequence stratigraphy, basin modeling, basic geophysics, well site operations, reserves estimation, risk analysis, field appraisals and development.
• This position will be responsible for building and maintaining geo-cellular models within the PETREL framework (and possibly other platforms) and will be a key member of an integrated team responsible for reservoir modeling of new and existing assets.
• Strong geological and geophysical evaluation skills of development prospects are required.
• Extended knowledge of relevant aspects of petroleum engineering and economics will be an advantage.
Responsibilities
• Identify, evaluate and recommend high impact development wells.
• Review existing fields including volumetric assessment, for development planning.
• Mature drillable locations for acquired prospects and document proposals for drilling.
• Prepare final reports for drilled wells to include the post mortem analysis of the success or failure.
• Collaborate with the operations geologist as required to ensure the trouble free drilling
• Recommend work program components and determine their budgetary requirements.
• Prepare and present recommended programs and achieve technical consensus.
• Other duties as assigned.
Technical Competencies
Well rounded industry professional with experience in the following specializations:
• Stratigraphy Reservoir Geology / Sedimentology
• Seismic Interpretation
• Structural Geology
• Well operations
• Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy
• Geochemistry
• Paleontology.
• Reserve Estimation
• Project Economics
Qualification

• B .Sc degree in Geology/Geosciences or equivalent education.
• Preference will be given to candidates holding higher degree and 5+ years in Production Geology and prior to experience with a major company or as employee or a consultant.
• Regional experience in Niger Delta geology would be a plus.
Miscellaneous
• Candidate must be willing to work in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt.

Job Title: RESERVOIR ENGINEER
General Summary

• Extensive experience in reservoir simulation, modeling, reserves estimation and certification.
• The position Reservoir engineer will be a member of an integrated multi disciplined team that will work primarily in clastic sandstone reservoir.
Responsibilities
• Make reservoir engineering input, appraisal and development projects.
• Provide operational reservoir engineering support for all drilling, completion activities, including making recommendations for optimum data collection.
• Provide reserves evaluation for the company owned assets and other assets as required by management and be the custodian of the reserves database.
• Participate and make reservoir engineering input into partners and regulatory authorities meetings and work programme discussions.
• Build and maintain integrated production models for the company owned assets.
• Build and maintain dynamic reservoir models, including carrying out history matching for the company owned assets.
• Carry out economic evaluation for all the exploration, appraisal and development projects.
• Provide necessary reservoir, well surveillance for the producing assets and make recommendation for improving recoverable volumes
Technical Skills and Experience
• Solid background in classical reservoir engineering principle and methods, including material balance analysis, fluid characterization. SCAL data interpretation, wet1test interpretation, well performance and production forecasting.
• Experience in field development, asset evaluation, reserves estimation, dataroom evaluations, operational experience (i.e. welltesting, production logging, well intervention) desired.
• Proficiency in industry standard analytical reservoir/ producing engineering packages (e.g. GAP, Prosper, Saphir and/ or PanSystem, PVT sim, etc)
• Hands-on experience with numerical reservoir simulation and proficiency in Eclipse are required.
Specification
• B.Sc or MSC in Engineering related field.
Experience
• At least 10 years with a major or large independent E&P company.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are required.

Job Title: PETROLEUM ENGINEER/ PRODUCTION MANAGER
General Summary

• Experience in designing workover and development programs, oil and gas reserves estimation, economic analyses, petrophysical analysis of well logs, secondary and, tertiary recovery techniques, pressure transient analysis, and routine well surveillance
• Work in a team with geologists and engineers to perform reservoir modeling and simulation for oil and gas reservoirs.
• Gather, analyze and prepare reservoir property, well and production data for simulator input.
Responsibilities
• Performs increasingly more complex and responsible professional petroleum engineering work pertaining to oil field development oil and gas production/ injection operations, enhance recovery methods and related work.
• Directs, reviews, evaluate, coordinates teams, and/ or participates in the preparation of petroleum engineering projects, studies, and programs pertaining to oil field development oil and gas production operations, reservoir performance monitoring, oil and gas reserves estimation, field equipment, enhanced recovery methods, abandonment operations and other related petroleum engineering work.
• Monitors reservoir injection/ production performance
• Directs and/ or participates in field work in connection with drilling and production operations Plans, observe and reviews formation tests, coring, cementing, surveys, remedial and production operations.
• Inspects field equipment; reviews and analyzes electric logs and make well completion recommendations.
• Evaluates contracts and regulations; develops budgets pertaining to oil operation
• Prepares and presents formal written and oral presentations to regulatory personnel.
• Directs and ensures compliance with environmental and safety regulations
• May supervise, coordinate, plan, assign, train, direct and evaluate subordinate personnel
• Performs other related duties as required.

Specifications:
Knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Geology or closely related field.
• A Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
• Knowledge and ability to operate computers using spreadsheets, word processing, and other business and technical software pertaining to petroleum engineering.
Experience
• Fifteen or more years of experience in petroleum engineering, petroleum geology, or oil field operations.

Job Title: SENIOR GEOPHYSICIST
General Summary

• Provision of geophysical support to asset, including seismic interpretation and mapping of producing fields and prospects
• Formulate and execute agreed technical programs for each asset.
• Provide geophysical input into new business opportunity evaluations.
Responsibilities
• Undertake seismic interpretation of fields and prospects,
• Map and depth convert for input into 3D models and volumetrics
• Make use of appropriate geophysical technology e.g. A1, attribute volumes etc to aid in reservoir characterization.
• Assist in preparation of appraisal and development programs
• Prepare and present material as required by internally and to third parties
• Self started with high energy levels.
• Good communicator independent thinker.

Specifications:
Knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in Geology or Geophysicist.
• A Master's Degree in Geology or Geophysicist may be substituted for one year of the required experience
• Knowledge and ability to operate computers using spreadsheets, word processing, and other business and technical software pertaining to Geology and Geophysicist.
Experience
• At least 15 years pf. work experience in petroleum geophysics/ geology of exploration interpretation for both structural and stratigraphic plays concepts,
• Offshore/ Deepwater experience is a must.

Job Title: HSSE CO- ORDINAT0R
General Summary

• Setting up and implement a corporate quality and HSE (Health, Security, Safety and Environmental) management systems for all projects to be undertaken by the company from conception to operations.
Responsibilities
• Developing all HSSE management systems, plan, safety cases, environmental impact assessment studied, submission of appropriate reports to and obtaining approvals from statutory bodies locally and internationally for all facts of the operations including spanning from drilling projects to production operations.
• HSSE reporting weekly, quarterly and annually, supervising a team of HSSE engineers and training of HSE engineers,
• Developing and implementing the corporate quality management system and ensuring the company's operation and facilities are ISO 14001 and 9000 certified.
• Develop and carry contractor capability HSE assessment to ensure HSE capability and form means of contractor's invitation to bid,
• Vigorously pursing company goal zero objective of no harm to people, no incidents and no spill via HSE communication and information management.
• Supervising compliance-monitoring projects (aqueous effluent, gaseous emission, environmental impact assessment/ EER, Remediation and PIA)
• Developing of training modules to improve HSE awareness and attitude of workforce.
• HSE auditing and inspections (Director Facility Inspection, Management Facility inspection, HSE-MS audit, Site audit and line Audit and inspection)
• Incident investigation support, inspection / audits, and waste management system from cradle to grave,
• Oil spills management (submission of oil spill notification report to DPR, joint investigation visit- JIV, post clean up certification, monitoring of satellite pollution control stores and monitoring the activities of remediation team on site)
• Implementing of mineral oil safety regulation and environmental guidelines and company standards
• Implementing HSE Competence Development plan.
• Prepare and distribute weekly alerts for lateral learning and feedback collated and presented to management.
• Develop and ensure implementation of two/way HSE communication plan.
• Monitoring the implementation of minimum health management standards (periodic medical, audiometric, health risk assessment of company facilities).
• Implementing journey management guidelines to prevent accidents through equipment pre- mobilization, induction training and periodic audits.
• Reviewing and reporting of HSE statistics (driving/ medical! training data. man-hours-carry out QA/QC and critical reviews on generated HSE data including man- hours, unsafe acts, oil spill to address area of shortfalls and initiated continuous improvement activities.
• Updating applicable legislations and ensure awareness to all field staff.
• Participating in the development of strategies that will enhance waste segration and full implementation of the waste management principles.
• Development of implementation plan to achieve OHSAS 18001 certification, performance monitoring and measurement and consultation and communication survey.

Specifications:
Knowledge

A good bachelors or higher degree in any of Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences or Physical Sciences with HSSE certified training which may include:
• HSE training and auditing
• HSSE management review and HSSE audit
• HSE case review and HSE hazard management development (HAZID, HAZOP, ORA, HIA, HRA, FIRE PRAN etc).
• HSE documentation and records management.
• HSE case review and HSE hazard management development (HAZID, HAZOP, ORA, HIA, HRA, FIRE PRAN).
• HSE documentation and records management.
Experience
• At least 7 years of relevant working experience in the oil and gas industry preferably in the upstream sector.

Method of Application

Interested but qualified candidates should please forward their application and CVs to: staffengineer1@yahoo.com
Only short listed candidates will be contacted

Closing Date: 8th June, 2010.

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