Senior Production Technologist at Hobark International Limited (HIL)

Hobark International Limited (HIL) is 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Production Technologist

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract

Job Description

• Lead Well performance modelling, sand prediction, sand control selection and upper completion design, perforating and smart well design for land and swamp operations.
• Work in an integrated study team (as a member or a study team lead) to mature opportunities.
• Make PT input into field development plan.
• The goal is to extract hydrocarbon optimally and profitably from the Assets.
• Ensure compliance with well, reservoir and facility management, well integrity, control guidelines and taking appropriate actions in assigned field/s. This is to safeguard the assets and assure reputation of the company.
• 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 of the completed wells. Incorporate mitigation strategies into production optimization plans.
• Identify candidate wells, which have near wellbore or wellbore damage for stimulations (e.g. acid or hydraulic stimulations) and design suitable treatment. Monitor the stimulations operations and evaluate the results.
• Identify water or gas shut off candidates wells and design treatments (mechanical and chemical treatments).
• Monitor operations and evaluate results.
• Identify wells that require additional and/or re-perforations, 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.

Requirements

• As a Senior Production Technologist, incumbent should 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 9 - 11 years relevant experience, including a minimum of 9 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 Drill-in Fluids.
• Knowledge in Production Operation.
• Coaching/Mentoring.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.