Senior Production Technologist

WAEP - Senior Production Technologist

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:

Role Purpose

• The Senior Production Technologist provides technical leadership for well and production-system performance, production optimization, well integrity support and intervention opportunity maturation to maximize safe, reliable and economic hydrocarbon production.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze well performance and identify constraints, underperformance and production optimization opportunities.

• Perform nodal analysis and well-performance modelling to optimize tubing choke, artificial-lift and operating strategies.

• Identify, evaluate and mature well intervention, stimulation, workover and production-enhancement opportunities.

• Provide production technology input to new well design. completion strategy and Field Development Plans.

• Support artificial-lift selection, troubleshooting where applicable optimization

• and troubleshooting where applicable

• Analyze well-test, pressure, production and fluid data to diagnose well and near-wellbore performance issues.

• Support well integrity surveillance and remediation planning in collaboration with Wells and Operations teams.

• Develop production forecasts and opportunity portfolios and track realized production gains against plan.

• Participate in integrated production-system optimization covering reservoir, wells, flowlines and facilities constraints.

• Provide technical assurance, coach junior staff and document

• lessons learned and production-technology best practices.

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Incremental production delivered from optimization initiatives

• Well-performance improvement

• Accuracy of production opportunity forecasts

• Intervention opportunity maturation and success

• Production deferment reduction

• Technical assurance compliance

• Quality of production technology studies and recommendations

• Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering Chemical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline. Relevant Master's Degree is an added advantage.

• Minimum 10-12 years' relevant upstream production technology/production engineering experience.

• Relevant professional engineering membership or certification is desirable.

Core Competencies:

• Well performance and nodal analysis
• Production optimization
• Well intervention opportunity maturation
• Artificial lift
• Completion and well design support Well integrity awareness
• Production forecasting
• Integrated production-system modelling
• Technical assurance
• Cross-functional collaboration

Application Closing Date

20th October, 2026