Senior Petroleum Engineer

Senior Petroleum Engineer Job at West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP)

West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP) is a registered company with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria, with RC No: 1173358. We have a strategic partnership/alliance with Dangote Exploration Assets Limited (80%), Dansa Energy Resources Limited (5%) and First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (15%).

In 2015, WAEP acquired a 45% working interest in OML 71 and OML 72 from the SPDC JV (Shell Petroleum and Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited). The company is the operator of OML 71 and OML 72 on behalf of the WAEP-NNPC JV. These blocks are located south of the Bonny Island. There are 7 major discovered fields in OML 72 namely – Kalaekule, KD, Koronama, Kugbe, KL, KQ, Kappa, while OML 71 has 2 main fields called KI and KI south.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Petroleum Engineer

Job

Location

Lagos

Role Purpose

• The Senior Petroleum Engineer provides high-level petroleum engineering support for reservoir management, production optimization, reserves maturation, well opportunity generation and field development to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and long-term asset value.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform integrated reservoir and production engineering studies to support field development and reservoir management decisions.

• Develop and update production forecasts, depletion plans and reservoir surveillance programmes.

• Evaluate reservoir and well performance using pressure, production, PVT and other subsurface data.

• Identify and mature infill drilling, workover, intervention and production optimization opportunities.

• Support static/dynamic model integration, history matching. forecasting and uncertainty evaluation.

• Contribute to reserves and resources estimation, classification, maturation and reporting

• Provide petroleum engineering input to Field Development Plans, annual work programmes, budgets and investment proposals.

• Work closely with Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Wells, Production and Facilities teams to optimize development decisions.

• Participate in well planning, well performance reviews, technical assurance and post-well evaluations.

• Coach less-experienced engineers and promote strong technical standards, documentation and knowledge sharing.

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Production forecast accuracy

• Quality and timeliness of reservoir studies

• Maturation of value-adding well opportunities

• Reserves/resource technical support quality

• Reservoir surveillance effectiveness

• Production optimization value delivered

• Technical assurance and documentation compliance

• Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.

• Must have 10-12 years of relevant upstream E&P petroleum/reservoir engineering experience.

• Relevant Master's Degree is an added advantage.

• Relevant professional engineering membership or certification is desirable.

Core Competencies:

• Reservoir engineering and simulation
• Production forecasting and optimization
• Reservoir surveillance
• Reserves and resources evaluation
• Well opportunity maturation Field development planning
• Uncertainty and risk analysis
• Petroleum economics awareness
• Technical assurance
• Multidisciplinary collaboration