This position is for a Well Completion Engineer, responsible for designing and planning well completions, coordinating interventions, and supporting execution activities to ensure safe and efficient well operations from preparation to final closeout.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare and present well design concepts based on information provided by the Subsurface team.
- Assist with the preparation of cost estimates used to generate yearly budgets and well/project specific AFE's.
- Forecast and be accountable for the timely ordering of well/project specific long lead requirements.
- Contribute towards logistical coordination and quality assurance of services, materials, equipment and personnel.
- Integrate with fellow drilling, completion/testing, subsea and/or subsurface team members as required.
- Perform special studies/duties if/as required, including conducting service quality meetings.
- Ensure vendor service deficiencies are correctly and timely captured via the company non-conformance reporting (NCR) process to ensure timely action/close out.
- Support NCR and root cause failure analysis as required.
- Contribute to the development, management and updating of the Drilling Management System (DMS).
- Ensure the DMS is followed during well planning, design, engineering, execution and closeout activities.
- Ensure compliance with company and Drilling & Completion policies, standards and approved procedures.
- Ensure compliance of vendor supplied materials, equipment and services, including review of design, pre-assembly verification, pre-installation testing and equipment documentation.
- Support the preparation of HSE documents if/where required.
- Contribute and participate in the hazard identification process.
- Contribute and participate in well/project specific risk assessments and pre-job planning meetings.
- Assist with the evaluation of rig and third-party services for hazards, well integrity and assurance.
- Support Drilling Management if requested in ER roles and incident investigations.
Well/Project Specific Duties:
- Provide engineering support as part of the wells team, including optimizing well planning, design, engineering, costing and assisting with operation execution, as well as the services associated with these activities. Activities include performing offset reviews and well hazard identification.
- Establish subsurface well/project life cycle functional and operational requirements, including material and equipment selection.
- Identify special engineering studies to be performed.
- Prepare well/project specific technical notes if/when required.
- Prepare detailed scopes of work for tender documents, perform vendor capability assessments, evaluate tenders methodically and present a succinct recommendation.
- Raise requisitions and purchase orders.
- Ensure compliance of vendor supplied goods, materials, equipment and services, including review of design, manufacturing processes, quality plans, post-manufacturing testing/verification, site receipt acceptance, pre-assembly verification, pre-installation testing and equipment documentation.
- Review all applicable operating, installing and testing procedures, including interface documents.
- Assist with drilling-related engineering, mobilisation, installation and commissioning activities if/when required.
- Contribute and participate in DWOP/CWOP/IWOP's as part of well/project commencement.
- Ensure the Well Barrier Schematic is current and valid for the current operation being performed.
- Assist with preparation of Management of Change (MOC) documents and conducting a risk assessment for those changes with relevant parties.
- Review field tickets and/or well invoices.
- Review the engineering-focused After Action Review (AAR) report and apply lessons learnt.
- Responsible for compilation of End of Well Reports (EOWRs).
Requirements
Education:
- Degree in Engineering
- Well Control certification (IWCF) - Subsea/Surface Supervisor is considered an advantage.
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant Well Completion and Well Intervention engineering experience.
- At least 5 years experience with operators in Brazil including IOCs.
- Project experience on dry tree development(s) including exposure to conceptual and detailed design as well as execution of completions and well intervention operations.
- Experience with lower completion and sand control designs and execution.
- Knowledge of appropriate and relevant well engineering tools (e.g. Landmark Suite (or similar) – Wellplan, WellCAT, Stresscheck, Compass, etc), and software packages.
- Knowledge of Brazilian well integrity regulations SGIP/SGSO.
- Familiarity with well testing and well clean-up activities is desirable.
- Experience with subsea completion and intervention considered an advantage
