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).
Job Title: Production Geologists
Job Number: 001403
Job Type (Employment Type): Permanent
Location: Lagos - Nigeria
Job Schedule: Full Time
Job Category: Geosciences
Career Level: Senior(non-manager)
Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree
Years of Experience: 10
Job Description
- Carry-out operational duties while drilling. Specifically, advise on drilling departure from plans and propose corrective actions, provide support on casing and coring points as well as TD decision and on logging, sampling and perforation programs definition.
- Build-up and maintain integrity of the exhaustive and consistent well database under construction by the Corporate Datacentre. Specific responsibility is for data such as well name, surface location, KB, kick-off points, deviation survey, mud logs, LWD logs, WL logs and core data.
- Support Geophysicists, Petrophysicists, Reservoir Engineers and Production Technologists in the building-up and maintenance of the integrity of the above-mentioned database (e.g. seismic surveys, processed volumes, LWD logs, WL logs, core data, RFT data, fluid samples, casing and completion data).
- Prepare well data sheets and authorisations to drill including recommendation for coring, logging and well test program. Responsible for obtaining approval for same through interfacing with the authorities.
- Prepare field development plans. Responsible for obtaining approval for same through interfacing with the authorities.
- Update static and dynamic reservoir models with latest well results as support for reservoir performance monitoring and management.
- Participate in peer review of modelling activities.
- Perform all the above with guidance and approval of the Corporate Centre for alignment with long-term development planning and reserves reporting.
Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree (Second Class, Lower Division) or its equivalent in Petroleum Engineering, Geology or other Geoscience. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in Production Geology & Geo-modelling.
Application Closing Date
17th October, 2012
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