PURPOSE

• Provide engineering, planning and supervising of drilling engineering.
• Daily operational support during the operation.
• Responsible for supervising, planning, preparing, and designing wells as well as providing drilling / operations technical support for the operations.
• Provide supervising, contracting, invoicing, and material tracking to support ongoing and future operational requirements.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Technical tasks:

• Prepare and supervise well plans, cost estimates, drilling programs for based exploration, and appraisal wells.
• Responsibilities include but not limited to the following:
  • * Selection of casing points and sizes
  • * Casing & cementing design
  • * Drill string design
  • * Directional drilling
  • * Pore pressure / fracture gradient analysis
  • * Drilling fluid program

Procurement:

• Review technical specifications; supervise the preparation of the ITB package, bid evaluation & updating the contract document for drilling contracts. Supervise to ensure that all long lead materials / rental tools and equipment for drilling operations are fit for purpose and available in a timely manner.

Compliance assurance:

• Ensure compliance of operations with approved procedures, safety, and government / SKI office organizational requirements.

Supervision & Evaluation:

• Continuously monitor drilling activity, related operations, and safety issues. Forecast in advance incremental expenditure as operations require
• Make recommendations to improve operations for increased efficiency and to overcome operational difficulties. Ensuring lessons learned are recorded and distributed as appropriate.
• Conduct post project end of well reviews recording the history / description of the well and identify / recommend areas for improved operational efficiencies and design. Monitor historical and current performance to benchmark progress. Prepare the end of well report.
• Check invoice payments to service Contractors.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Preferably Bachelor Degree or higher in the specific or related field.
• Operation experiences in the upstream oil and gas industry.
• Minimum of 7 years of experiences in drilling engineering
• Good spoken and written English skills.
• Good communication skill
• Good computer skill (MS office, Landmark, Wellview, etc.)
• Careful, detail-oriented, customer-service mindset
• Able to work, multi taking, responsibly under pressure.
• Optimize drilling costs and bring the best possible benefits to drilling operations.
• Team work, innovative, challenging and ambitious.

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

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