PETROLEUM ENGINEER

Overview:
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class
experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the
full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including
manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities,
operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility,
and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our
footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions
across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the
energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create
solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to
meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape
employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we
understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate
diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite
you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger -
a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create
innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes,
grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are
impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program
and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy
balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made
without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected
veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Responsibilities:
Weatherford have an exciting opportunity for experienced Petroleum Engineers
to join the team in Kuwait. The Petroleum Engineer actvely participates in
Production operations within the company, demonstrating technical domain
expertise at a fully qualified level, applied to relatively complex tasks, and
provides mentoring and guidance to junior team members. You will be acting as
a key technical contributor, this role identifies potential issues or
favorable conditions in order to determine high economic recovery and create
relevant client product solutions. Strong people skills, communication and
presentation skills are critical for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
* Ensure that that Health, Safety, Environment and Quality are the responsibility of all employees.
* Demonstrate effective safety leadership at all times to enhance the organization's commitment to safety performance.

QUALITY
* Demonstrate a personal commitment to Quality & Service Delivery.
* Applying Weatherford, and where appropriate Client Company's, Quality Policy and Management Systems.
* Perform reliability and failure analysis of well and surface network to establish root cause analysis of failure and suggest mitigation techniques for future operations.
* Define Field Services Management protocols to create, modify, monitor, close activities. Review post jobs reports.
* Perform QA/QC on all results provided to clients and provide technical guidance and oversight to junior professionals or technicians.

OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY
* Provide technical leadership for production analysis and optimize production under surface and reservoir constraints by:
* Selecting ideal IPR based on well productivity and determining operating point and changes to completion needed over the life of well.
* Identifying inflow performance problems and recommend mitigation procedure and quantify formation damage and its impact on performance.
* Defining model inputs necessary for reservoir simulation such as VLP curve, surface or downhole pressure constraints.
* Performing nodal analysis, tubing lift calculations, tubing lift evaluation.
* Designing, analyzing and optimizing artificial lift systems including but not limited to gas lift, ESP, rod lift, jet pump etc. and specifying equipment and field services required for installation, operation and maintenance of recommended design.
* Identifying production issues caused by near wellbore issues e.g. skin or permeability degradation, sand production, wellbore issues e.g. liquid loading, hydrates, paraffin, asphaltenes and recommend solutions to assure optimal flow.
* Building black oil, extended black oil, compositional, EOR and thermal models for well and surface network.
* Performing routine QA/QC on all production and completion data relevant to building production models.
* Independently perform material balance (MB), pressure transient analysis (PTA) and rate transient analysis (RTA) studies to define:
* Near wellbore damage or skin. Flow boundaries as observed in build-up or drawdown data.
* Determine reservoir size, drive mechanism and explain observed pressure depletion.
* Provide reservoir PI decline forecast and EUR with uncertainties.
* Evaluate surface production facilities impact on short-term, mid-term and long-term field performance by:
* Building surface network models incorporating wells, pipelines, pumps, separators and delivery nodes.
* Defining forecast scenarios incorporating reservoir deliverability constraints, flow capacity, processing capacity and economic constraints.
* Creating risk and economic analysis with minimal supervision, prepare recommendations.
* Performing surface network optimization under production constraints, delivery requirements, lift gas availability, injection water availability or produced liquid handling.
* Identifying bottlenecks and flow issues impacting performance.
* Understand DOF concepts and apply with minimal supervision to:
* Configure and trouble shoot a SCADA system incorporating RTU's, gauges.
* Understand configuration requirements and communication protocols necessary to acquire data from field.
* Understand data flow between SCADA and production optimization platform to monitor real time production operations.
* Perform flow assurance studies with minimal supervision.
* Perform risk and economic analysis, with minimal supervision.
* Support multiple disciplinary team to build simulation models to predict reservoir performance incorporate complex geology, reservoir characteristics, multiple wells configurations, and surface facilities integration by:
* Performing qualitative interpretation of petrophysical inputs aQUnd reservoir properties.
* Identifying all reservoir, production and completion issues and recommend solutions and characterizing complex reservoir fluids behavior in order to forecast production.
* Applying understanding of reservoir, wellbore and surface network flow to identify and mitigate near wellbore issues, lift inefficiencies, flow modelling in order to determine fluid flow, phase behavior and physical properties of the reservoir.
* Evaluating output from reservoir simulation for history match, conformance of forecast constraint to field conditions.
* Produce Weatherford standard answer products on a variety of datasets from basic to highly complex. Integrate results with other technical domains.
* Identify and recommend solutions to technical problems. Make decisions based on industry standards and past experiences, in compliance with Weatherford policy, seeking advice on challenges falling outside of normal procedures.
* Demonstrate awareness of Weatherford corporate business plans and contribute to local technology strategy.
* Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor within the physical constraints of the job.
* Work independently without general supervision or participate in project teams and, on occasion, act as the lead on small projects.
* Make decisions within established guidelines, seeking advice of senior team members on new or unfamiliar challenges or situations falling outside of normal procedures.

CLIENT & COMMUNICATION
* Meet regularly with clients for pre-sales and pre-job consulting and to present Weatherford answer products. May be accompanied by junior staff or sales staff.
* Maintain membership of relevant professional societies. Deliver presentations to local technical societies and remain current on industry regulations and developments.
* Work independently or as part of a team on assigned projects as instructed, complying with verbal and written instructions and procedures.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
* Participate in training and development through classroom courses, eLearning, and on-the-job projects with senior team members.
Qualifications:
* Must have a Bachelors or Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering.
* Should have at least ‎10-‎12 years of relevant experience.
* Must be resident in Kuwait or have a transferable Kuwait Residence Visa.
* Must have a Kuwait Driving License.
* Should have experience and good knowledge in Digital Oil Field, Well, Surface and Reservoir Modelling.
* Must have hands on experience with Prosper and Nexus applications.
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.