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HAVE YOU GOT SPIRIT?
In operation since 1985, Barrow Gas Terminal is a key piece of the UK’s energy infrastructure and supports the Morecambe Bay gas fields. The terminal has played a long-standing role in processing and delivering natural gas, supporting both local employment and national energy supply. With a focus on safety, environmental sustainability, and community engagement, we believe in operational excellence at every stage of production.
If you are ready to take the next step in your career with a dynamic and energetic team, then we are keen to hear from you.
THE OPPORTUNITY – PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIST
Provides Production Technology support to the Asset team to ensure economic production from Morecambe is maximized every day to the end of field life.
Location: Barrow-in-Furness
Duration: 2-year contract
Contract Type: PAYE
Day Rate: TBC - For your application to be progressed, please ensure you provide a PAYE day rate banding expectation. Please note that there is no travel and accommodation allowance provided. Please only apply if you have existing right-to-work in the UK. Please outline notice period/availability to start.
Spirit Energy currently have a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement for all office-based workers. 4 days must be worked in the office with compulsory days being Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The fourth day worked in-office (either Monday or Friday) is of the worker’s choosing but should be in keeping with what is most efficient and effective for their team. The office is open 5 days a week for full time, in-office working if this is the contractor’s preference.
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AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT…
In role, you will be required to:
- Implement well & reservoir management activities that optimise the daily production from the Morecambe fields.
- Develop and maintain a structured well surveillance plan to ensure wells are operated within their safe operating envelop.
- Lead the preparation of the short-term production forecasts for the assets.
- Input to assumptions used for long-term production forecast preparations.
- Ensure appropriate well and system network modelling are available.
- Identify technologies and, if appropriate, mature solutions that could aid maximising production from existing wells.
- Chair the daily and weekly production optimisation meetings to ensure all wells and facilities are optimised to maximise production.
- Generate and manage the asset choke model and collaborate with teams to identify production bottlenecks and production performance improvement opportunities.
- Ensure production losses are identified, recorded, and where appropriate, actions are taken to mitigate reoccurrence.
- Input to annual budget process to ensure any well interventions are budgeted for.
- Act as a Lead investigator using Kelvin TopSet investigation techniques to support business requirements.
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ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role, we are looking for:
- Educated to degree level, ideally this would be in subsurface or production field.
- Production Engineer/Petroleum Engineering Skillset who is able to critically review the validity of production forecasts.
- An understanding of gas processing processes.
In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are looking for someone who lives our values - Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care, and Delivery. A person who embraces and supports change, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a mature asset.
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We are a truly pioneering energy transition company with a portfolio and ambitions that span the breadth of the energy transition. We’re continuing to break new ground, collaborating and thinking differently. We’re proud of our heritage. With more than 30 years of production, we’re maximising the potential of our existing assets and substantial gas reserves in the UK and Netherlands. Above all, we live by our commitment to safety in everything we do.
Our portfolio is predominantly gas (96%), providing vital, primary energy to fuel our homes and businesses in the UK and Europe. Our strategy is focused on:
- Safely delivering production from our existing assets.
- Meeting and de-risking our decommissioning obligations.
- Exploring strategic energy transition opportunities from our existing assets.
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