Senior Drilling Engineer

Aberdeenshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Senior Drilling Engineer
Minimum Candidate Requirements

  • Degree qualified
  • IWCF or WellCap Subsea Supervisors Well Control Certificate Holder
  • In-depth knowledge of UKCS legislative requirements, ie permitting etc.
  • Experience in well design, planning, programming and AFE development
  • Knowledge of industry best practices associated with drilling and completions
  • Understanding of casing design and well control techniques
  • Ability to use industry standard well engineering software packages beneficial (eg Landmark StressCheck, WellCat, WellPlan, Compass, etc)

Key Role Tasks

  • The Senior Drilling Engineer will be responsible for carrying out assigned work with particular emphasis on HSEQ performance and cost-effective delivery.
  • Ensure that well design and construction procedures comply with Client and the relevant legislative requirements.
  • Liaise with Client Production and Subsurface teams and service companies to ensure that objectives for well construction, well intervention and/or well repair are set and fully detailed in the procedures for each well.
  • Responsible for composition of all programmes and programme amendments for the construction, re-entry, repair of a well.
  • Maintain corporate reporting requirements.
  • Determine the specification and manage the procurement of equipment and services such as, Casing, cement, directional, bit selection, drilling fluids/well hydraulics, completion fluids, drillstring, data acquisition, well suspension, well intervention design work. In line with Client and our guidelines including the generation of Call off's.
  • Where required complete modelling and design work to develop a fit for purpose casing design in line with applicable standards. .
  • Coordinate and where required undertake the recording and analysis of Lost time .
  • Provide technical analysis and solutions for well challenges.
  • Liaison and communications with rig and service contractors in planning and operations processes.
  • Day to day office based well operations support.
  • Preparation of statutory notifications to government and other parties.
  • Preparation of cost estimates and AFE's for planning and well construction/intervention/repair in line with our policies and client requirements.
  • Work planning and scheduling.
  • Provide all technical support required in obtaining required permits, ie operational and environmental.
  • Liaison with all other required disciplines, such as subsea and completions as project requires.
  • Participate in the inputting and tracking of all project actions and key legislation in WellAtlas®
  • Participate in the inputting and close out of all lessons in WellAtlas®
  • Complete risk reviews and document same as required by the project utilising WellAtlas®
  • Participate in client project meetings and weekly reporting requirements.
  • Manage all aspects of the required end of well reporting by all relevant service companies.
Start date
ASAP
From
CCN Recruitment
Published at
15.01.2013
Project ID:
472737
Contract type
Freelance
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