Assistant Drilling Supervisor at FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited (FIRST E&P)

FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited (FIRST E&P) is a Nigerian oil and gas company that was established in 2011. It started formal business operations on the 1st of July, 2012. FIRST E&P is a deeply technical, commercial and entrepreneurial organization, with full delivery capability across the entire upstream oil and gas value chain.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Drilling Supervisor

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Provide well engineering and operations assistance to the Drilling Supervisor at the rig site.
• Carry out assigned well engineering tasks during days-in-office as given by the Senior Well Engineer.

Responsibilities
Drilling Operations:

• Production of Daily Drilling Report
• Calculation of kick-tolerance, MAASP, SCRP
• Understand the function of all down hole tools, including the basic function of all MWD / LWD tools
• Tracking plan vs actual directional surveys and provide understanding of the Survey and IFR QA/QC procedures
• Understand basic functionality of mud products & fluids and advise the Senior Drilling Supervisor of mud performance
• Monitor the drilling performance (ROP / formation response / flow rate / pump pressure / surface torque / WOB / down hole vibration / hole cleaning / LWD formation response) and advise the Senior Drilling Supervisor of any concerns and/or potential improvements, particularly:
  • Excessive levels of vibration
  • Excessive surge / swab pressure (BAP)
  • Poor drilling performance
  • Poor hole cleaning
  • Check vibration limits are within predetermined limits.
• Supervise mudlogging, MWD/LWD/FEWD and wireline
• activities and monitor quality control in relation to these services
• Facilitate the analysis, evaluation and description of formations while drilling, using cuttings, gas, FEMWD (formation evaluation measurement while drilling) and wireline data
• Request mudloggers to carry out surge / swab calculations for all drillpipe trips. Request mudloggers to carry out hydraulic calculations for all BHAs. Monitor returns on ditch magnets and update daily trends
• Review bit dulls and condition of BHA, including hours logged for all components
• Witness casing integrity / cement bond logs if appropriate.
• Ensure all as-run BHA are forwarded to the Fishing Contractor.
• Assist in the preparation of operational reporting, and efficient logistical planning & scheduling.
• Carryout cementing and casing tally calculations, ensuring sufficient stocks of chemicals cement and pipe are available to perform the planned operations.
• Specifically carry out an arithmetic check of all casing and liner strings on the final tally.
• In coordination with service companies, carryout deck checks / pre-job checks of casing / cementing / wellhead equipment and understand functionality of all tools and equipment
• Carryout spot ID check of casing and pre-measured lengths
• Closely monitor casing running operations including double checking of tally, including joints run / joints to be run / joints remaining on deck
• Understand and monitor the cementing operation, including mixing and pumping of spacer / barrels of cement mixed / dart dropping operations / barrels of displacement fluid / plug bump pressures.
• Witness casing shoe integrity tests and calculate min leak-off values.
• Carry out Well Plan modeling on, buckling to run liners, torque and drag modeling.

Office:

• Contribute to the design of wells and create well programmes, detailed design and programme documents
• Carry out assigned well engineering tasks during days-in-office.
• Writing of hole section summaries for EOWR

Requirements

• Good first Degree in a Mechanical or Geoscience discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years well operations, and 1 years of experience in Drilling Supervisor role on offshore jack-up drilling, completion and workover operations
• Masters in Petroleum Engineering or Well Engineering desirable.
• Computer literacy with competency in Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with Well Engineering software such as “stresscheck” desirable
• Valid IWCF Certificate (Surface Supervisory Level 4)
• Effective oral and written communication
• Self starter with good business awareness
• Good ‘team player’ with ability to function well within a small, motivated team
• Strong analytical and problem solving ability
• Motivation and drive
• Ability to work under stress
• Flexibility and resilience
• Self awareness

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.