Lead Completions Engineer – Altea Energy

Location: Adrar-Algeria

Position summary:

Provision of completion and well operation designs, planning, programming and operations management, promoting techniques and strategies that optimise asset value and enhance life of well performance. Targets efforts to ensure that all wells are designed and delivered in accordance with local statutory requirements and GTG corporate policies, standards and procedures, whilst driving excellence in Health, Safety and Environmental performance, technological innovation and continuous performance improvement. Mentoring of operational and Well Operation Engineering staff as required.

Main duties & responsibilities:

• Excellence in promotion of Health, Safety and Environmental performance. Engage, influence, and drive a positive safety culture in every aspect of GTG daily activities.
• Preparation of detailed well life cycle design documentation; well completions, workover and well-service programs and operational management of change.
• Regulatory submissions in compliance with local statutory requirements and GTG corporate policies, standards and procedures.
• Maintenance and up-dating of well design, completion/workover procedure manuals, and any applicable statutory guidelines.
• Preparation of feasibility concepts for workover/re-entry and side-track, on existing wells subject to integrity issues. 
• Collaborate with respective disciplines and departments such as geology, reservoir, production, stimulation and completions, in the well construction process as required.
• Prepare note de opportunities (NDO), scope of works (SOW), and appropriate specifications for procurement of GTG equipment and services. Support as required in tender evaluation process, both technical and commercial.
• Technical lead for assigned contracts. Responsible for managing the agreed relationship with service providers and in setting the KPIs with the Contract Owner and C&P Specialist
• Prepare scoping, budgetary, AFE level completion & well operation costs. Monitor field costs & analyse variances.
• Ensure that long lead material, personnel, and equipment are identified for procurement on time
• Coordinate and liaise with other GTG disciplines on well related issues, both pre/post handover.
• Scheduling of material, services, and personnel required to meet well program objectives.
• Implementation of additional processes/procedures applicable to completion operation improvement.
• Effective liaison and communication with the subsurface and drilling & wells management teams.
• Ensure that all well operations are risk assessed and include mitigations plans in the execution program.
• Liaise with and support well-site activities as directed, together with the Drilling Superintendent and the Completion/Drilling Supervisor involved in the operations.
• Coordinate and manage service company support to GTG as required. Encourage good, open communications with contractors, promoting an inclusive culture of involvement and participation.
• Management and implementation of well construction performance improvement initiatives resulting from lessons learned.
• Ensure that completions operations meet agreed budget and objectives.
• Maintenance of end of well records, lessons learned and complete well files.
• Accurate and timely reporting of all well operation activities.
• Identify and implement new technology for performance optimisation.
• Mentoring relevant engineers and operational staff as required.

Internal and external interfaces:

• Facilitate effective interfaces between all services provided to the well completions and well operation functions.
• Liaise with; Drilling & Wells team, Subsurface Team G&G, HSEQ Representatives, Contracts & Procurement (inc. Logistics), Finance and Service Coordinators.
• Contribute to the optimisation of the asset’s performance.
• Participate in cross company initiatives to identify new technologies and benefit from completion experiences elsewhere.

Context and Environment:

• Rotational position based in Oued Zine, Algeria.
•  Able to work in a remote desert area under high outside temperature during summertime and low humidity.

Required Competences/ Qualifications / Experience / Profile:

• University Degree (Bac+5) in Petroleum Engineering or a related field.
• IWCF Well Control Certification (Level 4) in either Drilling or Well Intervention.
• 10+ years of experience in the following areas: Completion engineering , Well test and stimulation ,Workover engineering, Well life cycle integrity Site supervision.
• Ability to work proficiently in English.
• Knowledge of French is not mandatory but would be considered an advantage.

Personal Qualities:

• Collaborative: To work and communicate effectively with colleagues, partners and all other stakeholders. Respecting the knowledge and experience of others, sharing information and building effective relationships.
• Supportive: To encourage & celebrate success, performance and diversity. Being approachable, assisting & developing others according to their needs.
• Problem Solving: Ability to analyse multiple sources of data, make connections & create high quality solutions, prioritising the key issues & consequences.
• Drive: To strive for excellence. Being energetic, passionate and resilient, taking personal accountability for performance and delivering results.

Special conditions

• Demonstrated capacity of teamwork in multinational teams with different cultures.
• Demonstrate with the team analytical competences.
• Knowledgeable of respective engineering applications; ComPass, WellPlan, StressCheck/WellCat.
• Experiences with and able to understand water-based mud systems, its rheology, inhibition, damage through the reservoir section.
• Understanding in evaluating various logging, .
• Potentially required to work at well site during critical operations, e.g. running casing, cementing and drilling operations, to support the drilling supervisor and superintendent.
• Will be required to achieve and maintain appropriate competence in with Petroskills competency profile.