Specific Responsibilities
The Senior Production Engineer for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Production Operations team at the company’s Aberdeen office reporting to the Operations Support Manager.
This role will be primarily responsible for the following:
- Daily monitoring, evaluation and analysis of production and injection performance. · Troubleshooting and remediation of well related issues.
- Assign well test priorities and evaluate test results.
- Provide daily production engineering support to offshore operations.
- Production efficiency and loss management – setting of potential and loss analysis. Development of production and injection optimisation targets for wells.
- Procedure development for well operations.
- Support identification and evaluation of production adding opportunities.
- Well failure tracking and analysis, and well reinstatement evaluation.
- Design, input and review of well completions for workovers (e.g. artificial lift selection and design).
- Provision of production engineering support to well integrity management.
- Ad-hoc work offshore as required.
- Creation of Production consent submissions
- Act as liaison with partners for production updates
- Manage well chemical treatment plans with support of production chemistry team.
- Completion of wells & production efficiency sections of NSTA stewardship report
- Leading quarterly pattern and optimization reviews
- Leading monthly field Production review meeting
- Liaise with allocations to optimise tanker offloading and ensuring platform readiness
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Honours degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline; preferably chemical, mechanical or petroleum engineering.
- Experience in use of production engineering software e.g. Prosper, GAP, PI Processbook.
- Working knowledge and experience in design and operation of ESP and gas lift systems.
- Working knowledge or developing awareness of rules and regulations relevant to operations within the UK oil and gas industry.
- Minimum 10+ years of Engineering discipline experience preferred
- Experience in well optimization and appraising well intervention opportunities
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.