Field Advisor at Addax Petroleum

Addax Petroleum is a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, one of the largest oil and gas producers in China, the biggest oil refiner in Asia and the third largest worldwide.

Addax Petroleum was founded in 1994 upon leading petroleum industry expertise and a deep-rooted understanding and respect for African cultures. Over the years, Addax Petroleum has evolved from a young pioneer into an established international oil and gas, exploration and production company focused on Africa and the Middle East.

Addax Petroleum’s assets are located in Nigeria, the Joint Development Zone of São Tomé & Príncipe, Gabon, Cameroon and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, comprising an excellent combination of oil and gas reserves and exploration opportunities. The Company’s approximate average oil production for 2011 was 140,000 bbl/d.

Addax Petroleum has over 1100 employees worldwide with service offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Houston (USA), and operating offices in Lagos (Nigeria), Port-Gentil (Gabon) and Douala (Cameroon).

Addax Petroleum is recruiting to fill the vacant position of:

Job Title: Field Advisor
Job Number: 000721
Job Type (Employment Type): Permanent
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Schedule: Full Time
Job Category: Operations
Career Level: Manager(Team Leader or Supervisor of Staff)
 
Job Description

• Provide advisory role to the Offshore Field Superintendent.
• Develop personal and work skills on the job to the able to perform the role of Field Superintendent in his absence.
• Execute activities with work competent work force to produce export specification crude in line with the company production forecasts.
• Collate data from the various production sources and analyse for trends and fluctuations.  Make recommendations to Field Superintendent based on the analysis.
• Maintain good knowledge of all producing assets by frequent Audits of FPSO Workforce and evaluate workforce competence.
• Ensure that the execution of production activities by the work force is in line with production operation procedures.
• Ensure that good reliable operations data is gathered from the field and validated for input into Avocet.
• As a line supervisor ensure that corporate HSE procedures are strictly adhered to while performing all activities offshore.
• Implement and maintain an Occupational Health and Safety plan for site, complete with all the necessary documentation as per company policies and procedures
• Conduct daily meeting with the OIM and Team Leaders

Requirements

• A degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline is essential with at least 15 years work experience.
• Masters degree
• Should have all management characteristics, skills and expertise to manage multi-cultural and interact with multi discipline teams
• 15 years’ experience at a senior supervisory level in Production operations.
• Experience in deep water sub surface facilities is essential.
• Should be a very good communicator and have the ability and desire to establish and maintain amicable relationships with all levels of employees and contractors.
• Should have strong understanding and ability to ensure that risks related to Health and safety are managed and minimized to ensure cost effective operations.
• Process and terminal operations experience.
• Kowledgeable in subsea systems and operations.
• Must be computer literate and familiar with production debottlenecking studies.

Application Closing Date
16th October, 2012

How To Apply
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