Senior Well Intervention Engineer at a Leading Independent Upstream Oil & Gas Company

We are a leading independent upstream oil & gas company in Nigeria with active operator-ship of prolific blocks.

Based on our current expansion and development programs, we are seeking to engage experienced, intelligent and resourceful candidates in the capacity listed below: 

Job Title: Senior Well Intervention Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• The Senior Well Intervention Engineer (SWE) is responsible for well planning, design, programming, and providing engineering support during the execution of drilling campaigns.
• The SWE will support a wide range of well engineering activities, including the planning and execution of various well designs—exploration, appraisal, development, land, surface, subsea, deviated, horizontal, and multi-lateral wells.
• This includes conducting well reviews, monitoring field operations performance, and holding broad responsibilities covering drilling engineering, completion engineering, and drilling supervision/operations management.
• The SWE also mentors and supervises all well engineers and interns.

Key Accountabilities

• Liaise with Well Engineers, Production Technologists, Production Operations Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, and service providers.
• Design wells, including casing design, hydraulics programs, bit programming, and drill string design.
• Prepare AFE/Budgeting and monitor expenditures during operations.
• Identify and implement ideas to improve performance by repeating best composite well times, reducing NPT, estimating red money, using new techniques/technologies, and modifying procedures.
• Monitor performance against operational goals and develop reporting and auditing processes to analyze operational effectiveness.
• Develop ITT and support contracting, vendor management, and procurement. Assist with tender document preparation and evaluations for service and equipment contracts for Drilling & Wells teams.
• Coordinate risk identification and mitigation.
• Implement change control procedures to ensure that changes to procedures—planned or unplanned—receive the necessary technical authority approvals.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, regulations, and objectives within their area of responsibility.
• Coordinate DWOP and AAR processes.
• Prepare drilling programs and end-of-well reports.
• Develop detailed well designs and prepare Well AFEs.
• Skilled in using TSD and hydraulic simulations to validate BHAs and design trajectories.
• Supervise jobs carried out by Well Engineers and LIE.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering well campaigns.

Qualifications & Experience

• First degree in a relevant Engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of cognate work experience as a drilling engineer in an ESP company.
• Valid IWCF certificate (Supervisor – Surface/Subsea Stock).
• Excellent command of the Landmark Drilling and Completions Engineers suite.
• Demonstrated history of successfully delivering well campaigns.

Benefit
We offer competitve and attractive remuneration above industry standard.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications, stating the positions applied for, together with resume and scanned passport photographs to: latestrecruitment6@gmail.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.