Orion Group
Senior Reservoir Engineer
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Senior Reservoir Engineer
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Reservoir Engineer, based in Aberdeen.
Responsibilities:
- Lead reservoir engineering activities for the project assets, supporting effective reservoir management and field optimisation.
- Build, maintain, and interpret reservoir simulation models to support forecasting and opportunity identification.
- Communicate reservoir performance, risks, and uncertainties clearly to support business decision-making.
- Work collaboratively across Subsurface, Wells, Operations, and Commercial teams to deliver integrated outcomes.
- Provide technical assurance and present recommendations to management, joint venture partners, and regulatory stakeholders.
- Support development projects and business growth opportunities across the wider portfolio.
- Responsible for reservoir management through production data analysis, reservoir simulation, and analysis of case prediction.
- Reservoir engineering support provision to asset development projects, including liaising with petroleum engineering and process engineering disciplines.
- Presenting output of work for internal QC, JV partners, and regulatory authorities.
- Communication of subsurface risk and uncertainty to enable informed Area decisions.
- Integration with other functions, especially Ops, Commercial, and Wells.
- Assessing and QC’ing inputs to static and dynamic reservoir models.
- Building and running reservoir models in support of production optimisation, forecasting, and identification of value-adding opportunities.
- Support business development activities as required.
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Experience & Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in industry within a reservoir engineering / petroleum discipline.
- Eclipse, Petroleum Experts, Harmony, and other reservoir engineering software & simulation skills, building, running, and optimising models; Working knowledge of other key petrotechnical software.
- Ability to work with across disciplines to deliver value-adding projects.
- Manage integrated and complex subsurface workflows.
- Excellent technical writing and presentation skills.
- Understanding of economics, key business drivers, and company goals.
- Degree in Petroleum Engineering or closely related subject.
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If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more, then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: CR/083412.
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