Production Support Engineer

About the company

The KBR team of teams delivers future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives, while also helping achieve their sustainability goals.

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design and engineering capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

Your tasks

Production Support Engineer is part of the production planning section in the Petroleum Engineering Department. The primary purpose of the job is to ensure technical support to wells performance, close monitoring of daily production plans, well test plans, daily production allocation and be focal point between WRFM and operations departments.

• Production well testing - write well test procedures and instructions, execution, validation of data
• Provide a smooth interface between Production Operations and other Petroleum Engineering, e.g. leading and coordinating near real-time optimization such as operating guidelines, well testing and production trials
• Create short-term production plans 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
• Ensure daily production-related data is entered into Energy Components, is accurate and ready for approval by Field Manager before Operations Morning Calls
• Pro-active production surveillance (wells, facility, export)
• Hydrocarbon accounting, production data management and reporting
• Assist in determining daily production targets and achieving these daily
• Establish new ways of working
• Deferment management
• Act as first line support for Operations for all issues related to Energy Components, production data and Integrated Production System performance
• Support startup of the hydrocarbon systems; achieve on target and on spec production
• Production reporting (Field Ops/Production Daily Reports), daily production allocation
• Maintain up-to-date well bean up procedures and production priorities
• Execute front line production surveillance
• Field Technology champion for deploying new Operations related technologies
• Participate in WRFM activities

• Production Technologists: well inflow performance and well integrity
• Reservoir Engineers: production forecasts
• Finance/Commercial department: reporting and forecasting of produced and export volumes
• Operations, HSE & Maintenance: system performance, environmental-related reporting and optimization opportunities
• Metering: metering and mis-measurement issues

Requirements

• Degree in Petroleum Engineering
• Minimum 8 years' experience with an operator, familiar with programming teamwork flow, work scope and background in production engineering
• Up-to-date experience in well production plans, well testing plans, hydrocarbon allocation and well optimization
• Good knowledge of production allocation using EC software
• Knowledge of well completion, intervention and rigless activities and regulations
• Knowledge of PE standard software: OEM, PI, PVTSim, Kappa's Sapphire and other standard software: Eclipse, Petrel RE, etc.
• Communication skills with team members from different cultures and with clients

• Minimum 10-15 years' 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
• Familiarity with reservoir management including production maintenance and well management
• Experience working in a multi-cultural and multi-national team

• 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 an HSSE driven mindset
• Self-starter and proactive 'go getter'
• Be sufficiently flexible to work outside the normal boundaries and to integrate quickly into the Majnoon project
• The ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds is essential; the position will involve working with government or partner representatives
• Ability to quickly determine the optimal production solution, often with conflicting or missing data or information
• Good diagnostic skills are required to troubleshoot problems
• Must be able to communicate at a technical level with various stakeholders including: