Senior Production Technologist at Hobark International Limited - Oil & Gas

Hobark International Limited - The parent company of the Hobark group operating in the oil and gas industry. The company was incorporated in 1998, starting as a staffing agency based in Port Harcourt. Currently we have offices in 4 countries with our head office in Lagos. The group offers the following services.

Full cycle recruitment solutions and HR-department outsourcing for the oil and gas industry is provided by Hobark CMS. Registered employees are placed at major oil companies throughout the world for various positions.

Hobark International Limited is looking for qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Production Technologist

Req: 0745
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
The Overall Purpose of the Job:

• The incumbent will provide very strong support to the identification of production improvement, opportunities and production optimization studies in conjunction with the reservoir engineer, petrophysicist and production geologist in the asset development team.
• The incumbent will ensure the highest levels of competence of production technologists in the asset development team to include the, budget management, recruitment, retention, competency development and professional coaching and mentoring.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work in an integrated study team (as a member or a study team lead) where you can learn from others and equally contribute with your own background and experience. Make PT input into field development plan. The required technical work will comprise but will not be limited to well performance modelling, sand prediction, sand control selection and upper completion design, perforating and smart well design for land and swamp operations.
• Ensure compliance with well, reservoir and facility management, well integrity, voidage and flare control guidelines and taking appropriate actions in assigned field/s.
• Identification of short term oil opportunities for ranking in the business planning processes and the maturation of short term oil opportunities within the asset team.
• Ensure flow assurance for the life cycle the project. Incorporate mitigation strategies into production optimisation plans.
• Provide conceptual completion design for the most economic production throughout the life cycle of the well, i.e. performance modelling, tubing sizing, artificial lift design, drainage conduits, selection of completion accessories (e.g. SMART equipment, no of packers), material specification etc.
• Identify candidate wells, which have nearwellbore or wellbore damage for stimulations (e.g. acid or Waves stimulations) and design suitable treatment. Monitor the stimulations operations and evaluate the results.
• Identify water or gas shutoff candidates wells and design treatments (mechanical and chemical treatments). Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Identify wells that require additional and/or reperforations, due to high mechanical skin and design operations (e.g. gun selection, drawdown). Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Generate an activity proposal for any of the above operations, which contains the economic justification, functional design and programme outline.
• Generate well/system model (incl. the artificial lift) to compare actual performance with predicted. Identify wells that are not optimized and initiate actions/well interventions to change the operating conditions. Identify wells that are not performing and review options to improve inflow performance.
• Generate a well/reservoir surveillance plan, in conjunction with other disciplines, obtain key data and incorporate it into asset surveillance plan.
• Identify candidates for BHPs, production logging & related cased hole logs and design the operation. Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Generate an activity proposal for any surveillance operations, which contains the economic Justification, functional design and outline programme

Job Description

• Carries out other similar or related duties such as assisting in the preparation and presentation of Technical papers to Company management and Interest Holders, maintaining close working relationship with field staff to ensure that field related tasks are carried out in efficient manner and related problems are timely identified and action.

Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors

• The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that the QHSE Management System is implemented within the operations under their
• control. The incumbent must actively monitor the workplace to ensure that acceptable standards are maintained. Where risks are
• identified the incumbent must ensure that these risks are controlled, so far as is reasonably practicable.

The Incumbent's Duties include:

• Ensuring that employees, contractors and visitors are aware of relevant QHSE procedures
• Establishing that all equipment, plant and substances used are suitable for the task and are kept in good working condition: this Job Description includes the regular maintenance, calibration and servicing of equipment.
• Providing adequate training, information, instruction and supervision to ensure that work is conducted without harm to people or the environment
• Taking immediate and appropriate steps to investigate and rectify any risks to people environment/equipment and quality arising from the work activity
• Bringing to the prompt attention of project management any QHSE issue that requires their attention
• Ensuring that all incidents are properly recorded and reported and that an investigation is carried out to establish and rectify root causes
• Actively participating in the QHSE management system.

Organisation:

• Immediate Supervisor(s) Line: SURFACE SWAMP TEAM LEAD

Function: Technical

• Other jobs reporting to the same supervisor: Associate and Production Technologist
• Immediate Subordinates: Production Technologists.

Dimensions:

• Asset development team is responsible for all exploration and exploratory appraisal/development activities in onshore acreages (OMLs 4, 38, and 41).
• The portfolio contains a robust appraisal/development opportunities to support production and increase reserve base.
• The team is tasked with the technical maturation of large portfolio of opportunities from which to identify and mature economically attractive development opportunities for ranking and drilling. Close cooperation with drilling and production colleagues
• is required to enable rapid maturation of discovered hydrocarbons and monetisation of exploration discoveries.

Job Context and Main Activities

• Studies, well site operations, well services, production operations, well & reservoir management and cost control.

Decision making Authority/Level of Supervision Required:

• Level 5,6

Relationships:

• Internal: Engineering, Production, Drilling and Completion, HSE, Community, Legal, HR, and Logistic Department, External: NPDC and DPR

Job Challenges
Special Challenges

• Success requires close cooperation with development (projects) and production (asset) teams operating in existing heartland Niger Delta acreages, corporate and regional service providers and third party contractors in both face-to-face and virtual teams. Staff should be able to make use of large volumes of digital and hardcopy data stored on multiple platforms and filing systems distributed across numerous locations.
• Data management and quality control will continue to demand significant attention from staff in the foreseeable future to build an auditable portfolio of prospects.
• Excellent interpersonal skills will be necessary to ensure that technical quality in the team is maintained

Job Description

• At a high level, junior team members are effectively coached and communication is optimised with both internal and external stakeholders.

Job Knowledge and Qualifications

• As Production Technologists have a broad understanding of other E&P disciplines and skills in all key Production technologist specialties.
• A university degree in Engineering or equivalent with 6-10 years relevant experience, including a minimum of 5 years PT work experience in an operating company.

Skills in the following:

• Well Modeling & Performance
• Production System Optimization
• Conformance Technology
• Well Integrity Management and Determining Well Operating Envelope
• Planning & Design of Well Intervention Activities
• HSE considerations in well management and completion operations
• Completion Design and supervision
• Oil well cementing and Drilling Fluids
• Knowledge in Production Operation
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Competencies
• Production Technologist core skills Skilled
• People management, work and lead teams Skilled
• Strategy development Knowledge
• Stake holder engagement/relationships Knowledge
• Manage HSE and Risk Skilled
• Results oriented, commercial focus Skilled

Health and Safety:

• Safety Critical Role - Yes

All Employees
As a minimum the incumbent must:

• Take reasonable care to prevent harm to themselves
• Consider the potential for harm to others or the environment that may be caused by their acts or omissions.
• Work in accordance with information and training provided.
• Refrain from intentionally misusing or recklessly interfering with anything that has been provided for Health, Safety and Environment reasons
• Report any hazardous defects in plant, equipment and workplace, or shortcomings in the existing controls, to a responsible person without delay
• Not undertake any task for which authorisation and/or training has not been given.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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