Rigless Well Interventions Operations Engineer

Job description / Role

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 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.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Oil and Gas Production Engineer specialized in rigless well intervention operations to join Northern Area Well Completion Operations Department (NAWCOD). NAWCOD provides well services and completion activities for Saudi Aramco Oil and Gas wells in Northern Area of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Engineer will handle the complexity and work-related activities related to gas, oil and water wells (both producers and injectors naturally or artificially). In addition to engineering consultation and investigation, the Engineer should have a background of monitoring the drilling operations, completion design, flowback/testing operations, chemical treatments, logging and interventions, hydraulic fracturing and integrity assurance to perform remedial work for production enhancement.

Key Responsibilities

You will be required to perform the following:

- Provide centralized engineering support for all NAWCOD operations.
- Ensure well intervention requirements are technically and operationally feasible and can be conducted safely.
- Ensure all well interventions and testing equipment being used in NAWCOD meet jobs safety and technical requirements. Liaise with Production Engineering to prepare activity level forecasts.
- Initiate, facilitate and evaluate trial tests of new technologies.
- Conduct well intervention operation audits, including service providers and personnel competency performance, to ensure compliance with the best in class practices. Evaluate offshore vessels employed for well services operations for safety compliance and technical needs. Monitor and evaluate condition of existing well services equipment and prepare replacement plans. Generate and maintain Operational Instruction Manuals (OIM) for all NAWCOD operations.
- Monitor NAWCOD well intervention performance and issue technical reports, accordingly.
- Evaluate and recommend modifications of operational procedures for continuous improvement in safety and efficiency.
- Prepare and disseminate best practices as well as conduct technical training and awareness sessions.

Requirements

As a successful candidate you

Hold a Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering or relevant engineering discipline. MS degree is desirable, intensive industry training including specialized courses and seminars are expected.

Have at least 15 years of related experience, including 5 years intensive field experience in well interventions particularly Coiled Tubing and Wireline operations. Also, should have experience working in sour oil fields with high H2S concentration, onshore and offshore environments, and smart well completions. Experience with HP/HT and high rate gas wells intervention is also required.

Must be able to provide technical support of well operations, including all aspects of well interventions; well stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, well testing, well integrity and application of state-of-the-art technologies. It is also required to have strong technical capabilities in coiled tubing, electric-line and slickline conveyance.

Are active in related professional societies and have achieved professional recognition through knowledge sharing webinars/seminars, publications, international professional committees' activities, etc.

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.