Production Engineer - Oil and Gas

Job description / Role

Salary: up to AED 30,000 plus family status benefits

Our Client is one of the leaders in Oil and Gas exploration in the UAE.

In operation for more than 45 years the company has been a major influence in the growth and development of Dubai.

We are seeking a Production Engineer reporting to the Team Leader Production Engineering.

Key role
- To complete and publish all daily, weekly and monthly Government and Company reports
- Update and publish weekly short term production forecast (STPF)
- Ensure the accuracy. Completeness and accessibility of production data and reporting from the company production data base

Key responsibilities:
- Complete all reports of company and Government (daily, weekly and monthly
- Update and publish monthly water injection targets and hit list
- Update and publish monthly shut-in wells list as per drilling and operation status.
- Responsible for preparing, presenting and publishing of the Short Term Production Forecast (STPF) that forecast the following four months expected daily production (base & new wells).
- Organize, coordinate, and manage the weekly capacity setting and STPF review meeting.
- Work closely with Operations, drilling, Engineering to minimize lost production opportunities LPOs by aligning major activities in advance.
- Work closely with area production engineers to quantify the expected LPO resulting from different major projects reported in the STPF.
- Liaise with offshore production business planning to facilitate the elaboration of the technical production documentation.
- Support and interact with counterparts in offshore operations, Drilling, Well Intervention, and Engineering departments.
- Support the Asset with production / injection data.
- Maintaining the OFM database and responsible for troubleshooting and upgrade.
- Liaise with offshore fields for smooth data entries into Avocet Capture database & trouble shooting of database.
- Project Manage projects to streamline databases to include all oil and gas production.
- Continuously audit the current production data entry into the production databases to ensure the timely entry, data quality, and data completeness.
- Manage all database projects including OFM & Avocet.
- Liaise with offshore production business planning to facilitate the elaboration of the technical documentation
- Support and interact with counterparts in offshore operations, Drilling, Well Intervention, and Engineering departments.
- Support the Asset with technical work
- Providing career development advice to junior staff.
- This position of production engineer will be Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for production performance, STPF, production databases.
- The production engineer will liaise with Field Managers, Production Superintendent, Business Planning Manager, Finance Manager, IT Manager and Engineering Managers.

Requirements

- Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
- Minimum 5-7 years experience in Production Engineering and/or Management reporting in major Oil & Gas Operating Company preferably on offshore fields.
- Knowledge and experience in data management programs (Avocet, OFM).
- High level of understanding of offshore production/injection wells, facilities and environment.
- Strong technical writing skills and presentation skills are required.
- Excellent skills in MS Excel and Databases.

About the Company

KERSHAW LEONARD "WE CHANGE PEOPLES LIVES"

Who we are:

Founded in September 1999 The Kershaw Leonard Group was based upon professional recruitment practices laid down by the UK Institute of Employment Consultants whose values are still at the core of our success today.

Inherently we believe that recruitment is a people business not a CV processing business and as such we take time and care to make sure we understand the needs of both our Clients and our Candidates.

Such attention to the care side of our business together with the sheer length of time we have been established has given us a unique position. We regularly attract top class candidates who only want to work with Kershaw Leonard as they trust our confidentiality and professionalism. Similarly, more than 75% of the clients we work with come back for more when they have a new position to fill.

What we do:

Kershaw Leonard Group places exceptional talent on a Global scale. Our winning strategy is to partner very closely with a small number of clients so we can really understand their objectives, needs and aspirations in a way that allows us to intuitively know the kind of cultural fit they are looking for when the time comes for them to recruit new talent. Then once that talent is on board and part of the client’s team, to assist wherever is needed to improve performance and leadership skills

Why Us:

The Kershaw Leonard Group is more than just a recruitment agency. In addition to KL Recruitment, KL Consulting offers a vast spectrum of skills from our experienced behavioural psychologist and consultants with almost two decades of HR Director level experience in the region.