Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- To plan, design, and execute well workover operations safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively in order to restore, sustain, or enhance well productivity and integrity, and so provide technical expertise in the design, selection, and implementation of well equipment, ensuring that each well achieves maximum production potential, long-term integrity, and cost efficiency in line with THE COMPANY and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
Workover Program Development & Engineering Review:
- Apply best available, economical technology in well designs and operations.
- Prepare well-specific workover programs, risk assessments, and equipment lists.
- Conduct engineering calculations (tubing stress, packer load, flow performance).
- Develop and validate completion designs, well schematics, and detailed execution programs.
- Ensure workover designs align with reservoir objectives and production strategies.
- Develop a complete workover program based on all available geological information.
- Conduct follow-up assessments and equipment selection and application.
Operational Planning and Execution Support:
- Provide well site workover/ intervention surveillance and engineering assessments and counsel Operations Supervisors on critical activities and problems, such as equipment failures, workover fluid and hole problems, abnormal pressure detection, well testing, and well control.
- Provide well site surveillance and technical assistance on equipment testing, new procedures, abnormal pressure, etc.
- Give rig site technical assistance to Operations Supervisors during critical well control situations or for abnormal pressure detection.
- Work closely with contractors to ensure service quality, performance, and compliance.
- Review retrieved managed electronic data and ensure errors found in the daily operations reports and final well report are corrected when discovered.
Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration:
- Interface with Production, Subsurface, EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety), and
- Procurement teams to ensure alignment of workover objectives.
- Survey day-to-day drilling progress to ensure the well Program is conducted applying the best technology, and propose modifications, if required.
- Interface with drilling, subsurface, production, and supply chain teams to ensure design compatibility and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with service companies for technology deployment and performance optimization.
- Lead pre-job planning and post-job reviews with service companies and field teams.
Well Integrity and Safety Oversight:
- Ensure all workover designs and activities comply with well integrity standards.
- Maintain compliance with well control, pressure containment, and safety management standards.
- Participate in risk assessments, HAZIDs (Hazard Identification), and operational audits.
- Maintain barrier management and well control assurance throughout operations.
- Ensure that barrier philosophy and well integrity assurance are applied throughout the workover life cycle.
- Join in incident investigations and lessons learned processes.
Cost and Performance Monitoring:
- Prepare cost estimates, track expenditures, and analyze performance vs plan.
- Provide surveillance of well costs and stewardship reconciliation exercises.
- Capture lessons learned and develop recommendations for future optimization.
- Track and report actual costs versus AFE (Authorization for Expenditure) budgets; identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Interpret post-workover performance.
- Work with Operations to implement changes in procedures and equipment based on results of this analysis.
- Analyse operational performance against benchmarks and develop post-job reports with improvement actions.
- Support continuous improvement through well performance reviews.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related disciplines.
- Required Professional Certifications / Accreditations / Registrations: IWCF or IADC Well Control Workover / Completions Certification (Supervisor Level).
- Training in Workover and Well Integrity Design (SPE, IADC, or equivalent)
- BOSIET (Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training) certification.
- Minimum Years of Experience and Relevant Areas: 0-5 years in well engineering.
Proven experience in:
- Intervention design and execution (including sand control, intelligent completions, packers, and flow control devices).
- Tubing stress analysis and nodal analysis.
- Onshore, Offshore, or HPHT operations.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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