Carbon Capture And Storage Facilities Specialist
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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
Saudi Aramco seek for Facilities Engineering Specialist to work with the Production and Facilities Production Department under the Petroleum Engineering & Development Admin Area.
The carbon capture and storage (CCS) Facilities Engineering Specialist will lead up-stream CCS project life cycle (engineering, construction and commissioning) for on-shore CCS facilities such as onshore drill site, pipeline network and CO2 transportation compression/pumping stations. Provide input to concerned parties for improvement such as de-bottlenecking, cost-effective alternative, increasing performance and cost reduction. Lead group of engineers in specific tasks and studies such as a new CCS field development, a new water relief system, and 20-year field Master Plan. Participate in the company engineering standard review and the development of young professionals.
Saudi Aramco's Carbon Capture and Sequestration upstream facilities team handles the development projects to ensure meeting the Kingdom's CCS targets. This role will work with multidisciplinary engineering teams and provide expert technical insights on CCS related matters. This role is focusing on transportation of CO2 and injection field facilities with associated water handling systems.
Key Responsibilities
You are expected to be able to perform the following:
- Develop the scope of work for CCS sink/field facilities design and reviewing engineering design packages.
- Conduct CCS projects sink/field risk assessment studies.
- Participate in many HOZOP studies related to CCS projects facilities.
- Apply safety related issues and address environmental impact issues.
- Perform pipe hydraulic simulations, choke and flash calculations on PC-based software packages
- Analyze results of the simulations and recommend optimum hydraulic operating conditions.
- Able to look at alternatives, perform economic analysis and identify the most cost-effective alternative.
- Train and mentor less-senior team members
Minimum Requirements
- The successful candidate should hold a bachelor degree in engineering from a recognized and approved program. MSc or PhD is desirable, but not required.
- Minimum of 15 years experience in a petroleum engineering organization with experience in CCUS projects from field perspective.
- Familiar with CCS compression, pumping, transportation, and storage systems, injection wells system and wellsite facilities and have familiarity CO2 streams and capturing processes.
- Should have extensive experience in project type work in design, funding, materials acquisition, construction and commissioning. Also, able to identify design specifications and recommend improvements and economies in this area.
- Should have a thorough understanding of cost estimating pertaining to projects and able to explain over/under runs in expenditures.
- It's desirable to have production/injection engineering experience and familiar to downhole well completions knowledge since studies encompassing these issues will be expected.
- Good understanding of carbon related policies such as carbon tax, cap-and-trade, carbon pricing, etc.
- Possess a strong understanding of the different policy/regulatory frameworks that have allowed the successful development of global CCUS projects.
- Be familiar with the various costs across the entire CCUS value chain.
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.
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