Location: Basrah
Job Type:
Permanent
Closing Date:
2025-06-10
About vacancy
mselect is looking to hire a Production Support Engineer for an international oil and gas operator in Basrah, Iraq. Candidates must have 3-5 years of experience with an operator with in-depth technical knowledge and capability in petroleum engineering, daily well management, and team management. Fluency in English and Arabic is a must.
Job Purpose
Production Support Engineer is part of the production planning section in the Petroleum Engineering Department. The primary job purpose is to ensure technical support to wells performance, close monitoring of daily production plans, well test plans, and daily production allocation and be a focal point between WRFM and operations departments.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements
Qualifications:
Rotation
28/28
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
Job Purpose
Production Support Engineer is part of the production planning section in the Petroleum Engineering Department. The primary job purpose is to ensure technical support to wells performance, close monitoring of daily production plans, well test plans, and daily production allocation and be a focal point between WRFM and operations departments.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing a smooth interface between Production Operations and other Petroleum Engineering e.g. leading and coordinating near real-time optimization e.g. operating guidelines, well testing, production trials etc
- Create short-term production plan and targets
- Near real-time to short-term production activities scheduling, surveillance and optimization of integrated production systems with due consideration for WRFM, Asset integrity and HSSE
- Ensuring daily production-related data is entered by Energy Components, is accurate and ready for approval by the Field Manager before Operations Morning Calls
- Pro-active production surveillance (wells, facility, export)
- Hydrocarbon accounting, production data management & reporting
- Assist in determining daily production targets and achieving these daily
- Deferment management
- Act as first-line support for Operations for all issues related to Energy Components, production data and Integrated Production System performance
- Supports start-up of the hydrocarbon systems; achieves on-target and on-spec production.
- Production reporting (Field Ops/Production Daily Reports), daily production allocation
- Maintain up-to-date bean procedures and production priorities
- Execute front-line production surveillance
- Participate in WRFM activities
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Degree in Petroleum Engineering
- Minimum 3 years of experience with an operator, be familiar with Programming team workflow, and work scope and have a background in production engineering
- Should have up-to-date experience in the well production plan, well testing plan, HC allocation and well optimization
- Good knowledge of production allocation using EC Software
- Knowledge of good completion, intervention and ringless activities and regulations
- Communication Skills with team members from different cultures and with Clients
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience with an operator with in-depth technical knowledge and capability in petroleum engineering, daily well management, and team management
- Strong technical background in reservoir engineering, or related discipline
- Be familiar with reservoir management including production maintenance and well management
- Experienced in working in a multi-cultural and multi-nationalities team
- Language proficiency, computer and software skills
- Must be able to speak upper intermediate and above English Arabic is an advantage
- Experience and Knowledge of advanced level PI (Process book), Energy Components Knowledge of Prosper, and GAP will be an advantage
- Good communication and analytical skills are essential
- Eagerness to learn and develop own skills
- Strong leadership skills, ability to delegate, and work with minimum supervision
- Must have a HSSE driven mindset
- Self-starter and proactive ‘go-getter’
- Be sufficiently flexible to work outside the normal boundaries and to integrate quickly into the project
- The ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds will be essential
- Ability to quickly determine the optimal production solution, with often conflicting or missing data or information
- Good diagnostic skills are required to troubleshoot problems
Rotation
28/28
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
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