Senior Specialist, Advanced Petroleum Engineering Solutions ADNOC Group
تفاصيل الوظيفة
JOB PURPOSE:
Identify and define business cases, best practices and case studies for promoting the use of Digital oilfield initiatives. Provide technical advice, consultation, and technical coaching to subsurface and field operations teams in Group Companies on topics related to Digital Oil Field technologies and application.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Job Specific Accountabilities
Apply petroleum engineering techniques, digital information technologies and corporate standard procedures to generate value by enhancing surveillance, identifying workover candidates, preventing failures, and optimizing production economics.
Design and implement automated engineering workflows that improve operations efficiency, optimize production, and maximize hydrocarbon recovery factor.
Leverage data science methods and tools to extract insights from data, including data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning and big data.
Lead upstream digital transformation initiatives that boost the reservoir performance through wells efficiency, equipment availability and operational constraints management.
Document and share the value added and the lessons learned from internal and external use cases.
Integrate key interrelated areas: people, automated workflows, processes and technologies, by defining interfaces, understanding the challenges and providing solutions.
Prepare project charters, financial proposals, tender documents and contractor interfaces for new-solution projects, by defining requirements, work scope and breakdown structure, for enabling implementation of Digital Oilfield projects.
Coach and mentor others and build working relationships across OPCOs and the wider industry.
Utilize petro-technical software such as single well modal analysis, PipeSim, PETEX, Prosper, etc. to perform well and reservoir analysis.
Work with network and system optimization applications (PSO or IAM) to optimize production and injection rates.
Master well and system modelling tools such as Pipesim, Prosper, Gap, etc. to simulate and forecast well and network performance.
Develop petro-technical workflow automation programs and scalable solutions that enhance efficiency and quality of engineering work.
Use programming languages such as Python or R or MATLAB or C or SQL or C++ to create, modify and execute petro-technical scripts and codes.
Develop and maintain relevant Communities of Practice to share experiences and best practices, guidelines and standards across all Group Companies.
Proactively identify and mature relevant new technologies and harness Artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) to improve decision making and performance.
Generic Accountabilities
Supervision
Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.
Budgets
Provide input for preparation of the Unit/Department/Section budgets, assist in the implementation of the approved Budget, and work plans to deliver objectives.
Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.
Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
Implement approved Unit/Department/Section policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the work programs in line with Company and International standards.
Performance Management
Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Unit/Department/ Section in line with the Company Performance framework.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best industry standards to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.
Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability
Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures, controls, applicable legislation, and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices.
Reports
Provide inputs to prepare Unit/Department/Section MIS and progress reports for Company Management.
COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal
Has frequent contact with Group Companies Subsurface Team Leaders and Field Operation Team Leaders on digital oil field implementation and optimization.
External
Has regular contact with International Service Companies, Shareholder companies, consultants and contractors on various aspects of digital oil field technologies and implementation.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
Minimum Qualification
Meng or MSc degree or PhD in Petroleum Engineering.
Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills
Minimum 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with demonstrated ability to leverage real-time data and integrated models to optimize production systems and increase asset value.
Strong exposure to data science and digital solutions, as well as a solid understanding of the entire production system (reservoir, wells, surface network and process) and the industry standard enterprise solutions (data management, visualization, etc.)
Proven track record of developing standardized enterprise level solutions that are scalable, upgradeable and extensible.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to persuade/guide stakeholders to adopt the most sustainable approaches.
Hands-on experience in Digital Oilfield (DOF), Production System Optimization (PSO), and Integrated Asset Modelling (IAM).
Working knowledge of Petroleum Engineering software such as Eclipse, Pipesim, Prosper, Gap, WellFlo, etc. and programming languages such as R, Python, MATLAB, C, SQL, C++, VBA, etc.
Experience in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques.
Experience in analyzing data from 3rd party providers: POSC/PPDM, PETREL, PRODML, WITSML, OLE/ODBC, etc.
Professional Certifications
Published papers including first Author publications in journals or conference proceedings; preferably peer reviewed.
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