Upstream Due to significant project award our Client is looking to hire multiple Senior Well Engineers/Senior Drilling Engineers in Saudi Arabia
- Required years of experience: +10 years in Oil and Gas as drilling engineer.
- Total required is 16 candidates.
- Work schedule is normal (5 working days + 2 weekend), with annual vacation of 25 working days.
Mission
The Senior Well Engineer is responsible for well engineering on a project and requires both
detailed and broad well engineering and operations knowledge including the ability to design
wells for a wide range of well types and different rig operations. The Senior Well Engineer is
expected to supervise and mentor more junior Well Engineers on a project and requires
management skills in addition to technical competency.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and approves the Well Proposal and Basis of Design and follows the execution of programs technically. * Reviews and approves Well Programs and End-of-Well reports.
- Reviews and approves well operations procedures e.g. Casing running and cementing.
- Participates in selection and evaluation of service companies, suppliers and equipment.
- Ensures proper communication with relevant parties (client, segments, third parties, etc.).
- Participates in cost control of programs vs AFE by analyzing solutions.
- Assures Technical Integrity of Well Operations programs.
- Participate in well performance reviews to ensure focus on increased ft/day and reduced flat time.
- Reviews and approves project well control briefing.
- Reviews new technology for possible application to project.
- Take active role in Drilling TIC projects as assigned.
- Uses InTouch for best practices, lessons learned and technical alerts.
- Ensures best practices and lessons learned are transferred between all rigs on a project.
- Verify invoices for service companies.
- Deputize for Project Manager as required.
- Participates in HARC’s.
- Ensures compliance to IDS Standards and Procedures.
- Reviews requests for exemptions to IDS Standards in QUEST.
- Reviews SQ RIR’s resulting from well operations in QUEST.
- Participates in and leads SQ investigations.
- Reviews and approves Management of Change to well programs.
- Forecasts and plans medium and long term needs to meet program requirements.
- Anticipates operational changes and needs and revises plan accordingly.
- Participates in Daily Morning Meetings.
- Evaluates results vs goals and performance of service companies.
- Monitors daily Time/Depth progress and take active part in daily performance calls.
- Monitors daily cost/depth progress vs AFE.
- Reviews performance trends including NPT across all rigs.
- Initiates engineering corrective action to ensure a process of continuous improvement.
- Initiates engineering studies to solve recurring problems (wellbore stability, lost circulation, washouts, etc.).
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