Specific Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Production Engineer with expertise in optimizing and managing production operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in well performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and production optimization, with the responsibility of ensuring the efficient and safe operation of production systems. This role requires an understanding of production technologies, artificial lift systems, and reservoir behavior. The candidate will also work closely with other engineering teams to ensure safety compliance and operational efficiency while focusing on the improvement of recovery processes. The individual will be based out of the KPC Cairo head office.
• Very robust experience in hydraulic fracturing and stimulation programs Design, plans and execution
• Daily monitoring, evaluation and analysis of production and injection performance.
• Focus on well test priorities for production wells and evaluate test results.
• Track, Identify, and recommend of production adding and water flood optimization opportunities
• Active evaluation of water injection network changes and optimization opportunities.
• Development of production and injection performance forecasts and targets for wells and KPC Areas.
• Engage with Reservoir Engineering and Artificial Lift teams to actively monitor and recommend well performance optimizations.
• Production engineering support for new developments and projects with respect to additional surveillance and measurement requirements.
• Provide resource plans and schedules for waterflood surveillance rigless operations including pressure surveys, production logs, CT clean-out / stimulations, etc.
• Monthly field visits to confirm well measurements and evaluate impact of production and water injection network changes.
• Troubleshooting and remediation of well related issues.
• Provide daily production engineering support to production operations team.
• Support procedure development for well operations.
• Develop economic justification for production enhancement opportunities e.g. well interventions, work-overs, facility equipment upgrades, etc.
• Support well integrity management for waterflood related wells WSW & WIW.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
• 8+ years of experience in Petroleum Engineering related disciplines.
• Bachelor degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline; preferably chemical, mechanical or petroleum engineering.
• Some background in using advanced software tools (e.g., IPM suite, PipeSim, Artificial Lift Design Software, etc) to simulate the performance and behavior of oil and gas production systems.
• 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 oil and gas industry.
• Understanding of reservoir behavior, production systems, and field operations.
• Experience with production forecasting, reporting, and performance optimization.
• Working knowledge or developing awareness of rules and regulations relevant to operations within the oil and gas industry.
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.