Production Support Engineer

Job Title: Production Support Engineer

Reports to: Programming TL

Work Schedule :28/28

Departments: PE Department

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 instruction, execution, validation of data
• →Providing a smooth interface between Production Operations and other Petroleum Engineering e.g. leading and coordinating near real time optimization e.g. operating guideline, well testing and 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
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• →Ensuring 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 & 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
• →Supports 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 champions for deploying of new Operations related technologies
• →Participating in WRFM activities

• Degree in Petroleum Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years' experience with an operator, be familiar with Programming teamwork flow, work scope and have background of 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 well completion, intervention and rig less activities and regulations.
• Knowledge of PE standard software: OEM, PI, PVTSim, Kappa's Sapphire and other standard software: Eclipse, Petrel RE, etc.
• Communication Skill with team members from different culture and with Clients.

1. Minimum 10-15 years' experience with an operator with in-depth technical knowledge and capability in petroleum engineering, daily well management, and team management

2. Strong technical background in reservoir engineering, or related discipline

3. Be familiar with reservoir management including production maintenance and well management.

4. Experienced in working in a multi-cultural and multi-nationalities 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, 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 Majnoon project.
• The ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds will be essential. The position will involve working with government or partner representatives.
• Ability to quickly determine the optimal production solution, with often 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
• 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