Reservoir Engineer I

About the job

Job Title: Reservoir Engineer I

Entity: OER

Reports To: Senior Reservoir Engineer

Purpose (Summarize briefly the major function and purpose of the position)

Proper management of producing reservoirs.

To provide reservoir engineering input into projects from initial opportunity identification to cessation of production, including selection and definition of development plans, ensuring the integration of subsurface and surface parameters in dynamic reservoir analysis, maximizing recovery efficiencies and optimizing production potential.

Ensuring value protection for organization through critical review of operating partner’s reservoir engineering inputs and assumptions

Supervisory Responsibility (Indicate positions that report directly to this position.

(Number of Direct / Indirect Reports / External Contacts)

Technical mentorship of Interns & Graduate Trainees

Job Specification:

• 1st degree in Petroleum Engineering or other Engineering degree with appropriate professional experience, required
• 1 – 3 years of experience required
• Awareness of key subjects within reservoir engineering discipline, which includes but is not limited to: reservoir studies, estimating reserves, well test analysis, rock and fluid properties, decline curve analysis & production forecasting, well & reservoir management, field development planning and production support activities

·        – Strong computer skills

• Skilled level user of MS Office software: Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Petroleum economic skills is a plus
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation skills
• Solid analytical skills: problem-solving and critical thinking
• Technical writing

Major Responsibility Area:

Strategic

• Reviewing and analyzing plans and results for pressure transient tests.
• Reviewing or preparing appraisal programs for reservoir engineering data (PVT, RCAL / SCAL, pressure data, well tests, MDT, etc.)
• Reviewing data acquisition reports and lab reports from contractors – quality check samples & results, extract properties required for reservoir engineering studies
• Developing production forecasts and predicting reservoir performance for approval of well proposals
• Understand and support efforts to mitigate subsurface risk
• Proposing cost-effective reservoir monitoring and surveillance programs
• Support reservoir simulation studies to test development concepts / recovery schemes and optimize recoveries
• Support well and reservoir surveillance analysis and make recommendations for optimization and proper management of reservoirs
• Prepare written reports of reservoir performance, explaining and presenting results
• Develop reservoir performance predictions, including decline analysis and material balance on producing assets
• Prepare forecasts for business plan and monthly production outlook
• Support / review deterministic and probabilistic estimates of in-place hydrocarbon volume
• Participate in year-end reserves assessment and reporting

 

Core Competencies:

Awareness of Reservoir Data Acquisition

Awareness of Reservoir Fluid Properties

Awareness of Reservoir Rock Properties

Awareness of Well Testing & Pressure Transient Analysis

Awareness of Determination of Initial Reservoir Conditions

Awareness of Fluid Transport through Porous Media

Awareness of Material Balance

Awareness of Dynamic Reservoir Simulation

Awareness of Decline Curve Analysis

Awareness of Oil and Gas Reserves Estimation

Awareness of Reservoir Surveillance

Awareness of Well Performance

Awareness of Field Development Planning

Awareness of Integrated Reservoir Characterisation

Awareness of Field/Asset Management

Awareness of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Methods

Awareness of Unconventional Hydrocarbons e.g. Heavy Oil

Other Competencies

• Team Playing
• Oral & written Communication