Completion Engineer at Orion Group

Orion Group currently supplies over 4,500 personnel in roles including Oil & Gas, Renewables, Power & Utilities, Construction, Mining, Rail, Aerospace, IT & Telecoms, Office and Commercial. With 40 offices worldwide, Orion Group operates internationally and in October 2013, were named the UK's number one for Oil & Gas recruitment.

Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Completion Engineer, based on 28/28 rotation in Nigeria.

Job Title: Completion Engineer

Reference: 893285
Location: Nigeria
Sector: Construction & Fabrication

Responsibilities

• JV Field Completion Engineer works as part of a functional group that supports asset teams. The position is responsible for performing technical completion engineering for well design, updating cost estimates, well planning, operations support and review of rig requirements. This position will be required to participate in field reviews, peer reviews, optimization studies, and gather local operational knowledge/experience.
• JV Completion Engineer is expected to apply Capital Stewardship principles, Risk Assessment and Completions Engineering practices in all well programs, as well as capture and share lessons learned and best practices with the work group and global D&C community.
• Works in a team environment. Interface with Drilling & Completions office and field personnel, asset teams, Third Party services, HES and logistics personnel on daily basis.
• Focus on all well completion and workover/intervention planning and execution issues including the development of long lead item lists.
• Development of well completion programs and procedures. Consolidation and preparation of the entire well program package including all approvals and endorsements, and permitting with government entities.
• Development of cost estimates and scoping of data for alternative completion options - consider life of well issues (e.g. future workovers, recompletions, abandonment, etc.)
• Recommend completion design alternatives (tubular design, connectors, artificial list, sand control, stimulation, intelligent well completion, etc)
• All aspects of completion program design, development and permitting. Coordinate the gathering of data for design criteria; including offset well data, reservoir data, produced fluids types, etc.
• Implement well completion on paper exercises and participates in procedural risk assessment.
• Equipment procurement/forecasting
• Management of Contracts for Third Party services
• Participation in the ompany Project Development and Execution Process (PDEP) phase gate meetings
• Vendor evaluation and selection, as well as work order development for vendors critical to the process
• Completion Execution - provide technical support (office base) to the Superintendent and Well Site Manager/Company Man as necessary to execute the work program. Reviews rig site specific procedures.
• Mentor national engineers
• Support and actively participate in Health, Safety and Environment efforts to achieve goal of zero incidents.
• Identify and implement well operation performance improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate QA/QC of completion equipment.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering
• Extensive experience in completion design and operation experience planning and executing completions offshore (shallow water) and onshore.
• Proven competency in completion design, planning, and execution of variety of sand control completions (e.g. frac pack, gravel pack, expandable screens, stand alone screens) and artificial lift (e.g. gas lift, ESP).
• Project management skills - Ability to direct and coordinate the work activities of suppliers and company Engineering Technology Company.
• Demonstrated operational experience in a challenging and remote location.
• A valid WellCap Well Control Certificate is required. The company will facilitate the renewal process.
• Applicants must be able to successfully complete company's IADC-certified Well Control training in order to achieve certification for well control.
• Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English
• Strong communication and leadership skills for interaction with technical employees in the work group, their peers, and internal and external customers
• Extensive experience in completion design and operations experience planning and executing of shallow water and onshore wells.
• Experience in sand control completion (e.g. frac packs, gravel packs, expandable sand screen, stand alone screen) and artificial lift (e.g. gas lift, ESP)

Remuneration
The rate for this position is negotiable.

Application Closing Date
16th December, 2013

Method Of Application
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