ABNL Ltd. was incorporated in 1992, as an Oil and Gas servicing company, with a vision to provide professional engineering and technical services to the Oil and Gas exploration and production companies in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
Drilling Engineer / Specialist III
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- Location: Lagos
- Job Field
Main Functions
- Provide the engineering planning, design, surveillance, and follow-up required for the safe and efficient
- drilling and completing of drilling programs.
- Ensure well objectives are met while assuring the highest standards of engineering integrity, safety, and
- environmental protection are applied.
- Provide technical expertise on drilling engineering to the Operations and Development teams.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Responsible for the engineering planning, design, surveillance, and follow-up required for the safe and efficient drilling and completing of drilling programs; responsibilities include:
- Research and understand drill well hazards by reviewing historical offset well information
- Utilize wellbore geologic and reservoir objectives to develop a well plan
- Prepare cost estimates for well design options
- Identify and organize equipment required to execute the drill well plan inclusive of material selection
- Design wells to meet regulatory requirements
- Prepare and analyze technical bids for goods and services
- Survey daily operations
- Provide rig site drilling and completion surveillance and engineering assessments of critical activities
- Provide surveillance and technical assistance for projects, equipment testing and new procedures
- Interface with and solicit input from operations personnel to ensure well plans are feasible
- Work closely with other functions, such as geology, reservoir and projects, to ensure that the program is based on all available information and meets well objectives
- Depending on the program, deep water experience may be required (knowledge of subsea systems,
- riser analysis, subsea well control systems, etc.)
- Generate and evaluate well conceptual designs to agreed well objectives
- Refine selected well concepts to achieve an executable and AFE level (CP4) cost well design
- Provide input into the AFE sanction process and input to other internal and external approvals
- Develop comparative risk assessments of well concepts during Select work phases
- Always exhibit safe behaviors when on company property and/or on company business
- Comply with all SSHE policies and standards
- Apply the SSHE Management System as appropriate to the relevant area of the business
- Comply with Company’s Well Design and Operations Management Standards, Statutory Regulations and Industry Guidance Notes.
- Prepare Drilling Basis of Design documentation including Casing Design, Torque / Drag, Hydraulics
- Develop functional specifications and scopes of work for equipment and services
- Make continuous effort to improve regional well construction performance.
Skills and Qualifications
- B.S. Degree in Engineering or related technical field
- Experience with well planning and execution
- Experience with international assignments required
- Experience in deep water drilling operations if filling a deep water drilling engineering position
- Able to effectively organize and communicate thoughts
- Experience with well design software as well as Microsoft applications
- Read, write and speak fluent English
- Industry experience with well planning and execution
- Local and regional offshore experience
- Legacy MPN experience is an advantage.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resumes (must be in MS Word format) to: jobs@abnl.net using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
