Desk Engineer (Job Number: 1123376)
Role Synopsis
The role of the completion engineer BJ PL of activities is to plan, coordinate, measure, improve, and implement workover repairs, completions, recompletions, and stimulations of new and existing wells for our clients.
Responsibilities:
1. Effectively execute the defined scope of work for each approved workover or completion procedure.
2. Define scope of work. Provide long term well planning including conceptual design.
3. Continuously improve work processes and procedures to improve personal and job efficiency.
4. Evaluate and implement appropriate technology for improving value on all completion projects.
5. Share learnings by participating in formal and informal shared learnings forums. Transfer best practices and learnings internally and externally with our clients.
6. Maintain and improve technological ability by attending formal and informal training sessions, presentations, seminars, etc.
7. Assist in the training of in-house completion trainees and understudies in the area of workover and completion operations.
8. Liaison with area teams. Initiate and maintain communications with area teams before, during, and after each project to ensure that they are fully informed of all risks, choices, and costs, of all major decisions on operational and production scenarios.
9. Prepare detailed well work procedures using appropriate leading edge technology, ensuring technical integrity, compliance with CASHES and other HSE methodologies and quality assurance standards are maintained.
10. Specify well equipment requirements. Facilitate scheduling, procurement, and testing of well equipment. Ensure all necessary equipment is available as and when required.
11. Specify and coordinate well service requirements. Work with service company alliance partners and others to improve operational and logistical processes and service quality to the clients. Strive for win/win solutions.
12. Provide onshore operational support for all well operations. As and when required, provide direct offshore engineering support of all completion activities.
13. Complete project post appraisals and scorecards. Perform cost tracking and predicting. Perform job performance monitoring. Develop completion scorecards prior to implementation phase of operation.
14. Jointly responsible with the Team Leader for delivery of health, safety, environmental, cost and well performance targets.
15. Strive to improve working relations between the BJ Services completion contract alliance partners and departments within the client’s organization (i.e. well engineering, area teams, production operations personnel etc).
16. Work directly with the client’s engineers on projects to ensure that both the drilling and the completion of new wells are optimized.
17. Proactively keep the Completions Team Leader apprised of all completion related issues and decisions regarding all project work. Prepare and maintain detailed project list to be updated and forwarded to completion engineer weekly or at intervals as requested.
18. Document and communicate all completion related issues and decisions.
19. Perform quality control (QC) work as required to ensure efficiency of operations. Perform site inspections, as required, of service company alliance partners’ equipment and services. Perform offshore QC inspections as required. Create, maintain, and utilize QC checklists for well operations as required.
Personal and Interpersonal Skills and Competencies:
The following are some skills and competencies that are considered critical for the position:
a. Effectively communicates with individuals throughout the organization
b. Gives clear and complete oral and written instructions
c. Generates new ideas
d. Implements new and useful concepts effectively
e. Makes timely and effective decisions consistent with operational and business plans
f. Creates participative climate
g. Anticipates problems and adjusts accordingly
h. Organizes work effectively and uses available resources
i. Work and interacts effectively as a team member
Core Technological Competencies Required
(a) Basic and Advanced Completion Engineering Design
(b) Basic and Advanced Sand Control (incl. sand control software competency)
(c) Basic Acid Stimulation
(d) Basic Hydraulic Fracturing (incl. MFRAC software competency)
(e) Nodal Systems Analysis (incl. PERFORM software competency)
(f) Formation Evaluation
Qualifications Required
Minimum of BSc. Degree in an Engineering discipline
Experience Required
Minimum of 3 years equivalent intense and completion focussed experience preferred. Candidate’s suitability with respect to his/her specific combination of qualification and experience to be assessed.
Other Details
Company Overview
Baker Hughes serves the worldwide oil and natural gas industry with reservoir consulting and products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production. We are a leading provider for high-performance technology that creates value from oil and gas reservoirs. Virtually every product and service we provide is designed to lower costs, reduce risk or improve productivity during activities directly related to hydrocarbon extraction, advancing reservoir performance. Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries serving independent, international and national oil companies. Our service network is organized into 21 Geomarkets operating in 9 regions and 2 hemispheres. Region and Geomarket management teams work to understand customer needs and coordinate delivery of individual products and comprehensive service solutions that include the right Baker Hughes technologies for the project.
Baker Hughes is an Equal Employment Affirmative Action Employer.
Job: Engineering
Primary Location: AFRICA-NIGERIA-NIGERIA-PORT HARCOURT
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