Senior Petrophysicist
BH-272519-1
Posted: 30/09/2024
- Competitive
- Iraq Basra
- Contract
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Oil & Gas
Role: Senior Petrophysicist
Department: Subsurface
Location: Basra, Iraq
Rate: Competitive
Duration: 12 months
Rotation: 28/28
Role Synopsis
This is a technical lead position for Open and Cased hole Petrophysics in RMT, which itself is a core part of the in-country Subsurface Team.
This team provides day to day Petrophysical support to all open hole and cased hole logging jobs, including most of the existing logging solutions (classic and exotic services, using a variety of conveyance).
The scale of operations (e.g. more than 10 rig lines and WO) indicate the intensity of the operational workload. This role requires an integrated approach across all disciplines and departments .
A significant aspect of the role is coaching a team of local Iraqi Petrophysicists. Experience levels vary from new graduates to individuals with up to 5 years of experience. Developing capability within the team, sharing knowledge across all teams and managing and ensuring operational delivery are key challenges. Another key requirement is having a good working knowledge of New Well delivery (NWD) and reservoir management workflows, and helping to ensure the team contributes and is fully integrated with other departments in this process.
Key Accountabilities
• A passionate safety leader embodying Safety Leadership Principles.
Technical lead and Coaching/Mentoring - 40% amount of time
• Technical lead for the Cased Hole and Open Hole Petrophysics team and mentor junior members.
• Provides clear day-to day direction in line with the logging operation and logging interpretation activities.
• Maintains and prioritizes the team activity in collaboration with Unit Lead
• Mentoring and Training all PPs in collaboration with Unit Lead. (Including training plan and competency assessments).
Petrophysical support and assurance accountabilities (Planning, logging and interpretation, new technologies) - 40% amount of time
• Provide 24-hour support of operations, optimising the schedule and making sure correct logs are safely acquired in certain conditions (incl. drilling rigs, WO, Eline units, etc.)
• Accountable for correct data acquisition/job witnessing and QC.
• Accountable to deliver correct data interpretation for clastic and carbonates reservoirs. This includes interpretation of CH data (PLT/ILT, SAT, corrosion log, cement evaluations) and OH data (Quad combo, NMR, pressure points, sampling, etc.).
• Managing logging contractor performances.
• Helps managing communications with other departments (Wells, Logging contractors, Drilling rigs, etc).
New wells and Reservoir management workflow support - 20% amount of time
• Support the completion decision making process for WO and drilling rigs.
• Integrate with the other subsurface teams to ensure all datasets from new
wells are distributed and available.
Criteria & Qualifications
• BSc Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 10+ years of petrophysical experience – including Operations petrophysics/prior experience with wireline vendor preferable
• Proven experience in giant oil field reservoirs and large petrophysical databases
• Excellent open hole and cased hole petrophysical interpretation skills. (the candidate should be able to produce a petrophysical interpretation from Techlog).
• Proven coaching capability
• Experience working in multi-discipline / functional project team and ability to influence others to provide quality inputs to ensure quality team delivery.
• Proactive work ethic in a reactive work environment; demonstrated by doing things before being asked to or forced to by events
• Experienced in new well petrophysics, petrophysical modelling and other OH logs including Repeat Formation Tester incl. fluid sampling, Image logs, Cement Bond Log interpretation.
• Experience in Coring and Python would be plus.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
Department: Subsurface
Location: Basra, Iraq
Rate: Competitive
Duration: 12 months
Rotation: 28/28
Role Synopsis
This is a technical lead position for Open and Cased hole Petrophysics in RMT, which itself is a core part of the in-country Subsurface Team.
This team provides day to day Petrophysical support to all open hole and cased hole logging jobs, including most of the existing logging solutions (classic and exotic services, using a variety of conveyance).
The scale of operations (e.g. more than 10 rig lines and WO) indicate the intensity of the operational workload. This role requires an integrated approach across all disciplines and departments .
A significant aspect of the role is coaching a team of local Iraqi Petrophysicists. Experience levels vary from new graduates to individuals with up to 5 years of experience. Developing capability within the team, sharing knowledge across all teams and managing and ensuring operational delivery are key challenges. Another key requirement is having a good working knowledge of New Well delivery (NWD) and reservoir management workflows, and helping to ensure the team contributes and is fully integrated with other departments in this process.
Key Accountabilities
• A passionate safety leader embodying Safety Leadership Principles.
Technical lead and Coaching/Mentoring - 40% amount of time
• Technical lead for the Cased Hole and Open Hole Petrophysics team and mentor junior members.
• Provides clear day-to day direction in line with the logging operation and logging interpretation activities.
• Maintains and prioritizes the team activity in collaboration with Unit Lead
• Mentoring and Training all PPs in collaboration with Unit Lead. (Including training plan and competency assessments).
Petrophysical support and assurance accountabilities (Planning, logging and interpretation, new technologies) - 40% amount of time
• Provide 24-hour support of operations, optimising the schedule and making sure correct logs are safely acquired in certain conditions (incl. drilling rigs, WO, Eline units, etc.)
• Accountable for correct data acquisition/job witnessing and QC.
• Accountable to deliver correct data interpretation for clastic and carbonates reservoirs. This includes interpretation of CH data (PLT/ILT, SAT, corrosion log, cement evaluations) and OH data (Quad combo, NMR, pressure points, sampling, etc.).
• Managing logging contractor performances.
• Helps managing communications with other departments (Wells, Logging contractors, Drilling rigs, etc).
New wells and Reservoir management workflow support - 20% amount of time
• Support the completion decision making process for WO and drilling rigs.
• Integrate with the other subsurface teams to ensure all datasets from new
wells are distributed and available.
Criteria & Qualifications
• BSc Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 10+ years of petrophysical experience – including Operations petrophysics/prior experience with wireline vendor preferable
• Proven experience in giant oil field reservoirs and large petrophysical databases
• Excellent open hole and cased hole petrophysical interpretation skills. (the candidate should be able to produce a petrophysical interpretation from Techlog).
• Proven coaching capability
• Experience working in multi-discipline / functional project team and ability to influence others to provide quality inputs to ensure quality team delivery.
• Proactive work ethic in a reactive work environment; demonstrated by doing things before being asked to or forced to by events
• Experienced in new well petrophysics, petrophysical modelling and other OH logs including Repeat Formation Tester incl. fluid sampling, Image logs, Cement Bond Log interpretation.
• Experience in Coring and Python would be plus.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.