Drilling Engineer

  • BP Azerbaijan
  • Elanın qoyulma tarixi: 08.06.2013
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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 will be accountable for engineering activity covering the planning, programme preparation and execution of drilling and workover operations within the wells team. As part of the drilling engineering team you will deliver engineering design, program preparation and operational support on new and existing wells. Working with multi-disciplinary teams, you will ensure drilling programs, program amendments and dispensations to policy are prepared on schedule and are adequately risk assessed.

Key accountabilities 

- 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.
- Evaluate and propose alternative well designs and drilling technologies.
- Investigate best practices/learning and incorporate into design and operational procedures.
- 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.
- Ensure HSE and drilling policies are incorporated into well designs, drilling operations and drilling services.
- Prepare engineering dispensations.
- Maintain validity of engineering basis of design documents.
- Coordinate QA/QC work performed by service companies.
- Perform and document comprehensive risk assessment for operations.
- Investigate new technologies and ideas to optimize wells performance.
- Assist in the development of drilling engineering staff.
- 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 

- Knowledgeable of technical assurance - technical supplier performance management.
- Certificate in IWCF Well Control (Subsea) Supervisory Level.
- Recent Involvement in direct engineering support to an offshore team in drilling related matters, technical problem solving and action taking.
- Knowledge of pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction.
- 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]

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