Gas Production Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

Aramco energizes the world economy. Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Gas Production Engineer to join the Unconventional Production Engineering Division of the UR Production Engineering Department. The Unconventional Production Engineering Division is responsible for providing technical support for all unconventional rig-less activities, production optimization, and well integrity analysis for all unconventional wells in Saudi Arabia. Your primary role is to be a key technical contributor to multi-disciplinary Development and Production Operations Teams in our unconventional fields.

Key Responsibilities

As a successful candidate, you will be responsible for performing the following:

• Design well completion, continuous production monitoring, and artificial lift performance, and develop production targets and avails for wells on production.
• Integrate production system modeling, field development planning, and optimization, ensure well integrity management, and provide best practices for well intervention activities. As a Petroleum Engineer Specialist, you will also be a resource as a technical mentor to other Production Engineering staff and fresh graduates within the team.
• You will be involved in aggressive field development plans with a high level of drilling, completion, and production activities together with analyzing and optimizing the performance of vertical, horizontal, and multi-frac wells.
• Work, mentor, train, and transfer knowledge to young professionals.
• Develop innovative and effective plunger lift and rod lift designs tailored to unconventional reservoir characteristics.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize artificial lift systems for various well conditions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including reservoir engineers and production engineers, to align lift system strategies with reservoir and production goals.
• Analyze production data, well performance trends, and equipment performance to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and increased efficiency.
• Implement data-driven solutions to enhance lift system performance.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate, you will hold a Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from a recognized and approved program or a Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a Production Engineer with a minimum of 5 years working in unconventional fields.
• You should have the ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and be available to provide occasional field coverage.
• You must be able to work on collaborative projects with other departments such as Reservoir, Drilling, and Facilities.
• You should have proficiency with simulation software applications including Prosper, Saphir, WellCat (or equivalent) with the ability to perform nodal analysis and rod modeling software.
• You must have a deep understanding of liquid loading issues, well de-liquefaction practices, and production best practices.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.