Senior Engineer, Reservoir Engineering

Client: A subsidiary of a leading oil and gas exploration and production company.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Type of hiring: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Estimate reserves and resources, maturity of resources, and development plan for both oil and gas accumulations. Provide a quarterly and annual report on reserve movement.
• Identify data acquisition requirements to monitor reservoir and well performance, analyze problems, provide solutions, and collaborate with relevant partners to carry out required actions such as well intervention or workover. CCS development and injection fields are both included.
• Support in the well perforation program, well treatment, reservoir management plan, and monitoring program, including drilling and well operations decision making.
• Ensure that well testing and data interpretation are planned and executed effectively in order to evaluate well performance and reservoir characteristics.
• Oversee core and fluid analysis to verify that they are carried out in line with well-defined processes and that the results are legitimate and consistent.
• Assess short and long-term well performance and compare it to predictions. Produce medium and long-term output forecasts and develop a field development portfolio.
• Initial, supervise, and conduct studies to assist reservoir management activities and the formulation of a field development plan. Includes a CCS Monitoring, Measurement, and Verification (MMV) Plan.
• Conduct reservoir simulation studies (if necessary) by incorporating actual pressure and production data for better reservoir performance prediction, reserve estimation, and identification of future development needs in terms of well-related work program, well targeting, and production strategy development.
• Create, develop, and analyze subsurface field development concepts while considering the range of uncertainties and acceptable economics to create the best field development plan and work programs.
• Assess enhanced recovery technologies and processes in preparation for the pilot and full field implementation.
• Analyze production data and allocate output for reservoir management, regulatory, modeling/simulation, and forecasting applications.
• Technical oversight and input into the reservoir engineering aspects of FDP and FFR milestone reviews, as well as FDP and FFR submission coordination
• Present proposal, findings, and recommendations to team, Management, Partners, MPM, and/or stakeholders, and participate in annual budget planning for the department.
• Effectively coordinate with geology, geophysics, production operations, well services, and drilling by incorporating their needs into well programming, formation evaluation, and well completion; and
• Ensure a production and relevant reservoir engineering database is set up and maintained with verification.

Requirements:

• Degree/master's in petroleum engineering or similar engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience with 10 years experience in an exploration and production or service-related company on field developments - focusing on reserves evaluation, simulation modeling, and development engineering.
• Major experience with practical application of reservoir engineering principles to optimize reserves, recovery factors and production under various reservoir production strategies in oil and gas reservoirs.
• Extensive experience in waterflood management and developing reservoir management plans.
• Extensive experience in initiating workover and infill drilling activities and seeing them through to execution.
• Experienced in leading projects and coordinating teams with an interest in moving into future leadership roles
• Established history of skills development and mentoring of junior engineers.
• Computing skills, Eclipse 100, Eclipse Office, TNav, Petrel, Saphir, GAP, Prosper, MBAL, Microsoft Office.
• Self-motivator and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proven team building, project leadership and supervision skills.
• Proven negotiating, organization, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English-written and spoken.