Drilling Engineer

İşin təsviri

Job title Drilling Engineer

About BP Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. With a workforce of 80,000 employees, BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 80 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.

BP's Upstream segment focuses on finding reserves of oil and gas, developing the means to extract and process it and then consistently producing and transporting it to market. This involves using cutting edge technology to find the energy reserves, the ability to drill thousands of meters under the ground, designing, building and operating some of the world's largest most complex production onshore / offshore facilities and finally being able to transport these fluids, in order to provide energy to the world.

Through Technology we have designed industry leading solutions to drive business delivery and are continuously extending the limits of what we can do. We attract, inspire and retain a diverse talent pool with world class development, deployment and connectivity. Common processes and practices define the way we work, where we strive to make every well better than the previous one.

Role synopsis

The Drilling Engineer is responsible for leading and integrating drilling engineering activities across multiple work fronts during well planning and execution. The role requires comprehensive engineering design, program preparation, equipment readiness and operations support. Successful delivery of offshore wells drilled on time and within budget while continuously seeking areas of performance improvement and process optimisation in alignment with company practice and policy.

Key accountabilities

Engineering & Operations Delivery
- Perform detailed well design engineering activities to optimise performance and deliver maximum long term value.
- Write a detailed well drilling operations program including contingency plans.
- Optimize well design and bottom hole location in line with cost, functionality and safety metrics.
- Evaluate and propose alternative well designs and drilling technologies.
- Produce AFE for the well, including detailed time and cost estimations.
- Propose and manage technical studies necessary for successful well delivery. - Investigate best practices/learning and incorporate into design and operational procedures.
- Work with drilling suppliers, including inspection companies, for equipment and personnel requirements execution.
- Identify/order key long lead items.
- Develop equipment load out lists.
- Schedule the procurement requirements for drilling operations.
- Provide rig operational support during execution phase.
- Complete end of well reports and capture post well lessons learned.
HSE / Integrity Management
- Identify risk and develop risk mitigation plan.
- Ensure HSE and drilling policies are incorporated into well designs, drilling operations and drilling services.
- Utilise safety management systems to maintain a high level of safety awareness.
- Demonstrate personal HSE leadership.
- Attend appropriate HSE training and work safety inputs and actions with team members.
- Ensure dispensations are in place for deviations from policy.
Standards & Processes
- Prepare engineering dispensations.
- Maintain validity of engineering basis of design documents.
- Ensure technical file notes are in place and documented for key designs and decisions.
- Attend morning rig calls and support any operation meetings related to drilling operations.
- Review lessons learned related to drilling activities.
- Coordinate QA/QC work performed by service companies.
- Perform and document comprehensive risk assessment for operations.
- Capture all pertinent performance data for reporting.
Technology
- Implement best technology into well design.
- Investigate new technologies and ideas to optimize wells performance.
People
- Maintain good teamwork attitude for a safe and optimised delivery.
- Assist in the development of drilling engineering staff.
- Share knowledge and best practices with other teams.
Supplier Relationships
- Prepare master equipment load out lists and manage 3rd party services/suppliers.
- Interface with Service Companies to define and optimize well design.

Essential Education

- A degree in engineering or mathematics.

Essential experience and job requirements

- Azerbaijani citizenship.
- Proficiency in English language.
- Minimum of three years of direct drilling engineering experience with an upstream operating oil company.

Other essential skills and knowledge

- Technical and operational skills to deliver planning and execution of the drilling activities.
- Demonstrable knowledge in risk weighed cost estimating, cost management, contract management, hydraulics, torque, drag and casing wear prediction & modelling, casing design, mud system analysis, bit optimisation, directional/BHA planning, drilling fluids and cementing, developing well operation programs, hole section guidelines, recommended practices, technical limit implementation and post analysis of operations.
- Knowledge of risk management, transfer and application of best practices.

Desirable criteria & qualifications

- Demonstrable capabilities of leading, developing, training and coaching less experienced drilling engineers.
- Knowledgeable of technical assurance - technical supplier performance management.
- Demonstrable leadership of safety programs for drilling operations and participate fully in developing HSSE culture.
- Certificate in IWCF Well Control (Subsea) Supervisory Level.
- Able to meet deadlines and prioritise workload.
- Proven track record as strong team player.
- Recent Involvement in direct engineering support to an offshore team in drilling related matters, technical problem solving and action taking.
- Flexible approach to work and clear time management skills.
- Interdisciplinary engagement and performance delivery focused.
- Knowledge of pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction.
- Ability to create engineering studies in support of future well activities.
- Implementation of knowledge management plan ensuring capturing of lessons learnt and integration into future drilling procedures.
- Aptitude to innovate and be open to new ideas, networking and global technical knowledge sharing.
- Offshore operational drilling experience on semisubmersible rigs, HTHP wells, underbalanced drilling, rig based workover operations or coiled tubing drilling.
- Experience in offshore Extended Reach Drilling.

E-mail: [email protected]

İşəgötürənin reytinqi

BP Azerbaijan tərəfindən digər vakansiyalar

• Social Investment (SI) Initiative - Call for submission of the concept papers
• BP’s Social Investment (SI) Initiative - Call for submission of the concept papers
• Shah Deniz 2 - Construction Manager
• Piping/Mechanical Construction Engineer
• Civil Construction Engineer