Petroleum Engineer

Entity: Gas & Low Carbon Energy Job Family Group: Subsurface Group Job Description: About bp In production & operations, we find, develop and operate oil and gas resources and assets, as well as refineries, pipelines and terminals around the world. Our vision is to become an industry-leading hydrocarbons business and the engine room of our integrated energy company. Gas & low carbon energy (G&LCE) encompasses businesses, platforms and partnerships helping to deliver shareholder value and decarbonize our operations while positioning us for growth through the next decade. 

Our organization also aims to: Partner with bp’s businesses to provide integrated solutions and governance across our NOJV portfolio. Lead the development of deep and enduring relationships with targeted strategic corporates and partners in service of bp’s businesses. Ensure bp’s strategy, plans and wide-ranging activities in the US and China are unified and regionally integrated for value. 

About the role This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to join the agile, fast-paced and exciting integrated team that advises partners on opportunities for Production Management, Depletion Management, and Area Development Planning to improve production and recovery from this field. The successful candidate will lead core activities within an integrated group of bp and partners subsurface staff and constantly collaborating with other departments and the India Shareholding team to define and progress the implementation of the short and long-term plans. 

As a Petroleum Engineer, you will be responsible for improving oil and gas production safely and efficiently by handling wells, production systems, and surveillance data, while working closely with subsurface, wells and operations teams across the 4 chokes (reservoir, wells, plant and export).

What you will Deliver: Promote a strong safety culture, recognize the HSE impact on all works, communicate as appropriately to possible collaborators. Ensure all programs evaluated for potential hazards during the execution.

Enhance utilization of area wellstock and production/ injection systems to deliver production target.  Understand well set’s technical production forecast and well set’s contribution to business target.

Perform artificial lift (gas lift, ESP), well, and wellhead platform (WHP) site optimization.

Deeply understand well operating performance; maintain well performance models, and support surface system understanding.

Execute and analyze all surveillance in compliance with the surveillance plan.  Communicate outcomes to appropriate stakeholders (Reservoir Engineer, Subsurface Team, Wells Engineer)

Understand and minimize reservoir & wells related production and injection impacts including well losses/deferrals from shut in wells, pressure restrictions and bottlenecks. Understand reservoir losses/deferrals from non-optimal injection, conformance issues, etc.

Shape and deliver rate adding activity by populating the rate adding hopper with options and understanding basis of prioritization.

Perform routine well ownership requirements. Quality controls all well information including well tests, well events, production/ injection rates and well trends.

Prepare for and lead discussions in capacity reviews including well reviews.

Maintain current well information in the appropriate folder and ensure the proper databases are updated for perfs, logs, etc.

Review and provide quality control for well intervention evaluation tracking system.

Perform and review long-term shut-in, high GOR well list updates, and other required periodic duties.

Integrate with Reservoir Management team Understand the depletion mechanism and provide PE input to pattern/sector performance, waterflood targets, and other reservoir management issues as appropriate.

Support RE on maintaining hopper of donor wells for sidetrack options and provide this donor well information to help progress rig options.

Contribute to subsurface target ideas.

Provide consultation, as requested, on new well and sidetrack completion and perforation decisions.

Integrate with Operations Understand the surface facility equipment.  Work with various operations and projects/facilities/process groups to progress any facility projects which affect the well set including well tie-ins, debottlenecking, well meter repairs, etc.

Understand metering equipment and any issues, perform any updates or other metering inputs as required, and lobby for metering improvements where needed.

What you will need to be successful Must have educational qualifications: Batchelor/Master’s degree in Engineering or Science

Must have experience/skills: Great communication and integrations skills. Ability to communicate complex subsurface topics to team members across multiple functions.

Experience with offshore operations.

Proficient with system modeling and optimization.

Experience with planning and executing well interventions.

Understanding of flow assurance risks (hydrates, scale, asphaltenes) and management strategies.

Ability to handle multiple activities and to quickly respond to changing business priorities and make value and risk-based prioritization decisions.

HSE: Uphold and demonstrate safety leadership behaviours.

Strong technical contributor: Broad production operations experience, proven integration, optimization and monitoring across 4-chokes (Reservoir, Wells, Plant, Export) and strong track record of delivery.

Digital tools: Working knowledge of Petroleum Engineering toolkit inc. Integrated Production Modelling e.g. PETEX. Experience in use of data analytics.

Skillful Communicator: Ability to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary, operational and leadership teams with track record of sharing takeaways. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Natural Integrator: Able to listen to different perspectives, adapt and identify how to converge different points of view in an integrated solution. 

Agile: Ability to handle and prioritize multiple activities, quickly respond to changing business priorities and cope with short-term deadlines.

Learning: Strong desire to further develop and learn new skills

Minimum years of proven experience: Minimum 6+ years’ experience as Petroleum Engineer, with experience in production management and operations engineering.

Good to have experience/skills: Pressure transient analysis (PTA), downhole flow control, reservoir and well integrity management and sand management.

Gas reservoir management experience and/or waterflood management.

You will work with Your line manager will be the Performance Manager PE/RE You will work in the bp and partner offices at Mumbai.  You will work in close collaboration with both bp and partners subsurface and production teams and with bp’s global subsurface technical specialists and domain experts.

Why join bp At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit in with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generously paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country Remote Type: This position is not available for remote working Skills: Artificial Lift, Data Analysis, Formation Damage, Geomechanical analysis, Measuring and Verification for Carbon Storage, Monitoring, Nodal Analysis, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Reservoir Forecasting and Business Planning, Reservoir geomechanics, Rock Properties Framework, Subsurface integration, Subsurface Knowledge Management, Subsurface uncertainty and risk management, System modelling optimization, Vertical lift performance, Well and Area Performance Management, Wellbore geomechanics, Well integrity management, Well Productivity, Well surveillance troubleshooting Legal Disclaimer:

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