Senior Petrophysicist at SEPLAT Nigeria

SEPLAT - An independent oil and gas exploration and production company incorporated and operating in Nigeria with a strategic focus on Nigeria. The company was founded in 2009 by Shebah Petroleum Development Company Limited and Platform Petroleum (Joint Ventures) Limited for the purpose of investing in Nigerian oil and gas opportunities. Maurel & Prom, a French independent oil company, subsequently acquired a 45 per cent equity interest in SEPLAT; this interest was later spun-off to form Maurel & Prom Nigeria S.A (now Maurel & Prom International)

In July 2010, it acquired a 45 per cent participating interest in three producing assets (OMLs 4, 38 and 41) and was appointed operator of these portfolio of three on-shore producing oil and gas leases located in the prolific western Niger Delta basin of Edo and Delta states. The 45% participating interest in these OMLs were acquired from SPDC, Total (E&P) Nigeria and NAOC. At the beginning, SEPLAT was in JV partnership with NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Co-operation) until NNPC transferred its 55% interest to NPDC (Nigeria Petroleum Development Company). SEPLAT is the operator of these assets in the NPDC/SEPLAT Joint Venture.

SEPLAT has become a leading indigenous oil and gas operator in Nigeria. The company has increased its production and reserves year-on-year and has grown revenues and net profit in each year since it commenced operations. The company’s production has maintained a remarkable growth trajectory, rising from a gross operated oil production of 14,000 barrels per day at inception to its current daily crude oil production of around 60,000 barrels per day. The OMLs have a combined proven and probable reserve in excess of 500 million barrels of liquid hydrocarbon and gas reserves in excess of 1.6TCF. These provide a platform for significant potential growth.

SEPLAT is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Petrophysicist

Location: Lagos

Overall Purpose of the Job

• The incumbent is expected to provide petrophysical input to asset team, to assure petrophysical deliverables and to coach fellow petrophysicists all in support of Development Planning, Well and Reservoir Management and New Oil on SEPLAT’s Operated and Non-Operated, exploration and development wells.

Principal Accountabibilities:

• Recognized authority in his/her specialist area of petrophysics.
• Contributes to the definition of data gathering strategies and helps implement Corporate Quality Assurance programs for log data acquisition.
• Ensure cost-effective logging programs and utilisation of team resources, clearly defined objectives, minimize scope change, ensure best working practices (state of the art) techniques are applied and look for innovative ways of minimizing costs without compromising objectives while maximizing value.
• Provide assistance in the selection of suitable well locations and in the preparation of well prognosis, initiate and contribute to the development of petrophysical evaluation methods, carry out Field Development planning, workover/infill drilling programs and Full Field Reviews.
• Advise and investigates new logging tools and techniques; proposes and organize where necessary field trials, evaluate results and recommends application of new technology.
• Contributes to data acquisition programs, including cores, logs, formation testing and well and reservoir monitoring.
• Work with surveillance engineers and geoscientists to identify & quantify opportunities for maximising production from developed reserves and for undeveloped reserves and by-passed oil.
• Conduct detail routine, well defined petrophysical studies to identify the presence of hydrocarbon, evaluate reservoir characteristics, associated risks and uncertainties .
• Carries out petrophysical reviews and provides specialist support for Asset Team studies including input to static and dynamic models.
• Continuous enhancement of Seplat's petrophysical engineering practices, techniques and applications and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Coach and mentor junior petrophysicists in line with the established Technical Progression Career Plan (TPCP) for Petrophysicists.
• Represent the Company at meetings with Joint Venture Partners and host-government body to justify the data, interpretation techniques and results obtained.

Job Knowledge and Qualifications

Required Qualification:

• A minimum of 10 years petrophysical experience
• Possesses B.Sc/M.Sc Degree in Applied Science or Engineering

Competencies:

• Logging Operations & Procedures
• Fit for Purpose Logging Programme
• Mud Logging & Hydrocarbon Identification
• Open Hole Log Interpretation
• Cased Hole Logging Interpretation
• Integrated Formation Evaluation
• Flexible Work Approach

Multi-Tasking & Working Under Pressure to Support Active Drilling Programs

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

Method of Application
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