First Recruitment Group
Senior Reservoir Engineer
Aberdeen City
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Senior Reservoir Engineer
Aberdeen – hybrid working set up of 3 days per week in the office and 2 days per week from home
Inside IR35 – PAYE set up
Until end of year initially and will then be renewed further
Purpose of Role
- Reservoir Engineer within the UKBU Operated by Others multi-disciplinary subsurface team.
- Deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource additions by influencing the operator and joint venture partners, underpinned by robust subsurface technical work.
- Responsible for multiple assets across the OBO portfolio.
Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will provide subsurface decision support for non-operated assets, framing key decisions, identifying critical uncertainties and providing clear recommendations to management.
- Provide independent technical assurance and challenge of operator evaluations, focusing on uncertainties and assumptions material to value and decision quality.
- Develop and maintain a company technical position through integrated subsurface evaluation.
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will build technical alignment between the company, operators and co-venturers to enable effective decision making and maximise value to the company.
- Define and deliver reservoir engineering work programs in support of business strategy across multiple assets.
- Identify, mature and influence the operator to deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource growth.
- Maintain production forecasts in support of mid and long term business plans.
- Mentoring junior staff.
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will interface and leverage technical expertise to influence subsurface team priorities and work programs.
- Represent the company at external joint venture workshops, subsurface workgroups and technical committee meetings.
Daily tasks include
- Development of technical recommendations to support subsurface, asset and investment decisions.
- Generation of production forecasts to support key business decisions using the appropriate tools e.g. analogue, DCA, material balance, simulation models.
- Review, challenge and assurance of operator reservoir engineering evaluations and recommendations.
- Analysis and integration of production, pressure, fluid and surveillance data to identify opportunities, risks and key uncertainties.
- Evaluation of production enhancement and new well opportunities.
- Reserves assessments.
- Monitoring and assisting with specialists and contractors to manage reservoir engineering projects.
- Reservoir engineering input to internal and external business approvals, partner engagements and technical committee meetings.
- Sharing knowledge.
- The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position.
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Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.
Core Technical Experience
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have a fully developed technical skill set.
- Expertise in delivering complex reservoir engineering projects incorporating uncertainty.
- Expert in several anchor skills. Thoroughly understands technology and how it supports the business.
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have expertise in different aspects of reservoir engineering e.g. field development, simulation, material balance, pressure transient analysis, fluid properties, decline curve analysis, reserve evaluations.
- Identifies, develops, executes and evaluates business opportunities.
- Experience of critically reviewing and assuring technical evaluations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business decisions across multidisciplinary teams and joint venture environments.
- As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have the ability to integrate subsurface, wells, facilities, operational and commercial considerations into technical recommendations.
- Sound working knowledge of industry software packages.
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Qualifications
- MSc in reservoir engineering or a related subject.
Personal Characteristics
- Puts forward own views credibly and persuasively, linking communications with desired outcomes.
- Listens actively while guiding others towards positive communication outcomes, considering other perspectives.
- Looks for opportunities to develop others, providing constructive and timely feedback to support development.
- Invests time in coaching others.
- Takes accountability for the success of both their own and others’ projects, considering and integrating a wide range of information and views in making decisions. Recognises the importance of framing and strong multi-disciplinary narratives.
- Works to build trust with a multi-disciplinary team. Proactively finds opportunities to assist others and provide guidance, promotes a teamwork-based collaborative approach.
- Uses own and others expertise to achieve results, can coordinate teams while collaborating with others outside the team, engages and motivates others, works strategically and communicates the bigger picture to others.
- Adapts easily to change and views change as a catalyst for success.
- Anticipates sources of conflict and takes steps to prevent these, looking beyond their own relationships when thinking about how to prevent conflict.
- Able to solve complex problems by balancing different needs, displaying creativity and considering innovative approaches when solving problems while looking for business efficiencies in their solutions.
- Consistently completes tasks on time and to a high standard, taking responsibility for both personal and collective goals.
- Promotes company Core Values and works actively to create and sustain a positive culture that embodies those values.
- Awareness of company HSEQ Policies and Business Management System (BMS).
- Awareness of company Values & Business Principles.
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Skills
Reservoir Engineering
Production Forecasting
Reserve Evaluations
Material Balance
Pressure Transient Analysis
Decline Curve Analysis
Simulation Modeling
Technical Assurance
Joint Venture Management
Subsurface Evaluation
Field Development
Fluid Properties
Project Management
Mentoring
Stakeholder Influence
Risk Analysis