Senior Well Performance Engineer

Esbjerg, Denmark

Job Reference 1253808

Location Esbjerg, Denmark

Industry Oil & Gas - LNG

Function Drilling & Completions

Job Type Contract

Date Added January 20, 2025

Job Title: Senior Well Performance Engineer
Location: Esbjerg, Denmark
Contract Duration: 12-Month Renewable Contract
Work Schedule: Full-Time, Office-Based (Monday to Friday)


Key Responsibilities:

  • Safety Leadership: Promote and model a strong safety culture across all operations.
  • Well Performance Management: Monitor and optimize gas lift and water injection for assigned wells to ensure maximum potential.
  • Minimize Shortfalls: Assist in identifying, tracking, and reducing production shortfalls, ensuring clear understanding of impacts for both injectors and producers.
  • Operational Oversight: Develop and maintain operational envelopes for wells, ensuring adherence to referential limits.
  • Production Allocation: Ensure accurate well testing, approve test results, specify well potentials, and communicate updates across the organization.
  • Reservoir Optimization: Provide expert advice on reservoir management during periods of suboptimal facility operations.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with other teams (Field Ops, Smart Room) to align on well potential, reservoir performance, and optimization opportunities.
  • Forecasting: Advise on production predictions and reserves evaluations across short, medium, and long-term horizons.
  • Data Acquisition: Define and coordinate data acquisition plans to support informed subsurface decision-making.
  • Integrated Reviews: Contribute to field reviews led by the Reservoir Management Teams and provide well status updates for annual reserves reporting.
  • Technical Analysis: Conduct transient pressure data interpretation, nodal analysis, and multiphase network modeling to enhance well performance.
  • Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentoring to junior staff to build technical excellence across the team.
  • Other Duties: Perform additional tasks as assigned by management, ensuring all activities are conducted safely and efficiently.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Education: MSc in Reservoir or Petroleum Engineering.
  • Experience: Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in reservoir and well operations.
  • Technical Expertise:
    • Strong background in reservoir management and well operations.
    • Experience with complex field reservoir management, long horizontal wells, and multi-zone completions.
    • Proficiency in transient pressure data interpretation and nodal analysis.
  • Interpersonal Skills:
    • Strong collaborative and communication skills.
    • Ability to integrate and align with 2G&R peers and cross-functional teams.

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