Drilling Engineers at a Leading Oil & Gas Company

We are a leading Oil & Gas Company operating in upstream sector with great potentials. We have opportunities for passionate and skillful professionals who are poised to display their competencies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Drilling Engineer

Ref: DRE
Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• The Drilling Engineer must have a good knowledge of well engineering, drilling and completions to provide support to company’s operations from the initial design to delivery of swell to production.
• Must be knowledgeable in drilling and completion practices.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science Degree in a core Engineering discipline (Second Class Upper).
• A Master’s Degree in any of the relevant Engineering disciplines will be an added advantage
• A minimum of seven (7) years of or drilling experience, consisting of well engineering and rig operations is required.
• Must have strong analydcal, technical and operational skills
• Ability to prepare work schedules and comprehensive drilling plans to meet project objectives and deadlines.
• Monitoring daydoday rig operations during drilling and completions operations provide immediate and effective solutions for operational continuity, equipment malfunctions and other onsite problems.
• Liaise with project partners, such as geologists and drilling contractors etc. in order to keep up- to-date on all developments that may have an impacton drilling activities.
• Responsible for executing the appropriate procedures for well drilling projects
• Ensuring that drilling operations comply with statutory and regulatory requirements, with respect to health and safety and emergency procedures.
• Must be capable of working seamlessly with geosciences, production and reservoir groups in executing drilling/operations engineering solutions.
• Must have working knowledge of commonly used and relevant driiling/operations/production management software
• Must have ability to plan and lead projects and must be able to work under pressure.

Remuneration
Very attractive remuneration packages with benefits await successful candidates!

Application Closing Date
3rd May, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should e-mail their resume, (prepared as a Microsoft Word document) possibly with a scanned passport size photograph to: upstream16@yahoo.com using the reference for the position applied tar as the subject of the email.

Note: All applications will be treated in confidence and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.