Senior Petrophysicist 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 Petrophysicist

Req: 0746
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
The 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 the company’s Operated and Non-Operated, exploration and development wells.

Principal Accountabilities

• 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 the company'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.

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 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: Chief Petrophysicist

Function:

• Other jobs reporting to the same supervisor:
• Immediate Subordinates:

Dimensions:

• Asset development team is responsible for all exploration and exploratory appraisal/development activities in the company's 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:

• Open hole & cased hole formation evaluation
• Assist in the identification of Petrophysical competency requirements
• Be a part of the sub-Surface team charged with conducting Petrophysical evaluations, and making appropriate contributions into field development planning, well planning/proposals; etc.
• Supervision of logging programs; etc

Decision making Authority/Level of Supervision Required:

• Level 6, minimal supervision.

Relationships:

• Engineering; Drilling & Completion; HSSE/CR; Logistics; External: JV, DPR, NNRA, Contactors, Investors, etc

Job Challenges

• Success for the company requires close co-operation 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 inter-personal skills will be necessary to ensure that technical quality in the team is maintained at a high level, junior team members are effectively coached and communication is optimised with both internal and external stakeholders.

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

Health and Safety:

• Safety Critical Role - Yes (Please delete as appropriate)

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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