Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the pioneer and leader of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. We invest heavily in our employees, which is reflected in our industry-leading development programme and our commitment to see our employees’ ideas travel and come to fruition.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Reservoir Engineer
Job Requisition id: R185278
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- This role focuses on delivering high-quality reservoir engineering support for Shell’s upstream projects, particularly in the early development stages (DG1 to DG3).
- The engineer pplies scientific and technical expertise to estimate hydrocarbon volumes, forecast production, and optimize field development strategies.
What you’ll be doing
- Apply scientific principles to understand and predict dynamic reservoir performance and generate production forecasts and resource volume estimates for use in upstream revenue calculation, financial and regulatory reporting
- Propose drainage points and recovery processes
- Plan, identify and execute data gathering activities
- Perform numerical and analytic reservoir modelling, production forecasting, resource volume determination, well testing, PVT and core data analysis, risk and uncertainty management.
- Ensure growth team deliverables are seamlessly aligned with corporate forecasting and value stream strategies
- Perform and lead activities to generate hydrocarbon resource volume estimation and realistic production forecasts for the project team
- Coordinate Technical Assurance of individual and team products. Liaise with the TA2/1 to ensure QC actions are reviewed and closed out and documented. Provide first line QC for discipline specific topics across the teams
- Participate in Reservoir Engineering Discipline activities. Lead and/or participate in discipline improvement projects
- Act as technical coach to junior staff within own discipline and team
- Able to present discipline and cross-discipline work to senior management and regulators
- Perform and lead, Field Development planning activities and recommend strategies to maximize oil and gas ultimate recovery for the team
- Identify and mature short-term and long-term oil and gas generating activities
- Perform and lead analyses to understand and predict dynamics of reservoirs
- Document results on discipline specific issues and review contributions from other disciplines for integration and consistency
- Prepare and generate proposals for reservoir data acquisition. Screen proposals from across all disciplines. Collect and interpret data and initiate follow-up activities
- Provide advice on Reservoir Engineering matters related to well planning, drilling and completion operations
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or scientific discipline, preferably in Petroleum Engineering
- Over 10 years of experience as a Reservoir Engineer with a proven track record
- Fully proficient in reservoir engineering technical tools and productivity software
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Competent in managing HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, and Environment) issues.
- Strong technical competence in core reservoir engineering and a solid understanding of other subsurface disciplines; able to work independently
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; capable of operating effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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