First Recruitment Group
Production and Subsurface Lead
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Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Onsite)
Duration: 2 year Contract
IR35: Inside (PAYE)
Overview:
Production & Subsurface Lead
We are seeking an experienced Production & Subsurface Lead to play a critical role in maximising economic hydrocarbon recovery throughout the remaining life of a major offshore gas asset. This position combines production engineering, subsurface management, regulatory compliance, and business support responsibilities, making it an excellent opportunity for a technically strong professional looking to influence asset performance and strategic decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Production Management
- Own and maintain the production management framework and standards.
- Develop and regularly update life-of-field production forecasts.
- Monitor production performance against forecast expectations, providing clear analysis and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Coordinate daily, weekly, and monthly production reviews to optimise wells and facilities performance.
- Investigate production loss events, ensuring robust root cause analysis and implementation of lessons learned.
- Work collaboratively across disciplines to identify production bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
- Proactively identify and mitigate production risks.
- Ensure all production-related regulatory consents remain in place and maintain compliance with applicable industry requirements.
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Hydrocarbon Accounting
- Manage hydrocarbon accounting activities, ensuring accurate allocation of production volumes and emissions across the value chain.
Subsurface Management
- Lead reserves and resources reporting activities.
- Provide subsurface expertise to support well plug and abandonment (P&A) planning and decommissioning activities.
- Ensure all relevant subsurface data is available to support safe and effective project delivery.
Regulatory Information & Samples Coordination
- Manage Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC) obligations.
- Ensure regulatory data submission requirements are fulfilled across subsurface, wells, decommissioning, production, infrastructure, and physical sample management.
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Business Support
- Act as a Lead Investigator using Kelvin TopSet investigation methodologies.
- Support wider business initiatives and undertake additional responsibilities as required.
About You
To be successful in this role, you'll bring a strong production or petroleum engineering background, combined with the ability to critically evaluate production performance and forecasting assumptions.
Skills & Experience
- Strong Production Engineering or Petroleum Engineering expertise.
- Ability to analyse production performance and validate production forecasts.
- Experience working within offshore oil and gas operations.
- Understanding of hydrocarbon accounting, reserves reporting, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications
- Degree qualified, ideally in a Production Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Geoscience, or related subsurface discipline.
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