Senior Well Testing Specialist - GOM - Completions Engineer

Posted 30 August 2024
Salary Negotiable
LocationHouston
Job type Temporary
DisciplineOil and Gas Recruitment
ReferenceTR/074303_1725045420
Contact NameKelsee Tedder

Job description

Job Description
Senior Well Testing Specialist - Deepwater
Role Overview / Key Accountabilities

  • Promote a strong safety culture across all well testing activities, focusing on inherently safe designs, procedural discipline, adherence to standards, and collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Manage and work collaboratively with P&A and intervention teams, as well as associated well testing contractors, to develop safe designs and operational procedures.
  • Write and execute coiled tubing clean-out procedures for a variety of complex deepwater interventions jobs across various fields, all in line with global well testing procedures.
  • Act as a mentor to develop and coach less qualified or experienced engineers.
  • Provide operational site-based supervision of well testing and related operations as required.
  • Lead and coordinate the management of regional resources and activities with direct input from regional and functional management and engineering teams.
  • Review operational failure incidents, analyze root cause effects, and present findings to ensure a positive learning culture.
  • Write technical reports and be proficient in relevant office and technical software packages.
  • Manage or support hazard identification, hazard operability studies, well operations reviews, certification, and engineering reviews.
  • Integrate service providers and client demands to deliver safe, efficient, and compliant operations.
  • Interface with the DS6 Rig personnel on the preparation of SIMOPS operational procedures.
  • Provide onshore logistical and operational support for regional activities.

Essential Qualifications & Key Skills

  • Valid IWCF or IADC Supervisory Level Well Control Certification.
  • 12+ years' experience in well testing-related roles, including familiarity with deepwater coiled tubing operations.
  • Display a wide range of global experience within the well testing and interventions domain, with specific experience in floating vessels and deepwater operations.
  • Understanding of process safety principles and experience with detailed HAZOP studies and other process safety activities.
  • Experience in project management and direct supervision of site-based operations.
  • Experience in field operations in deepwater environments.
  • Extensive experience covering design, preparation, and maintenance of relevant surface process, DST, and subsea safety systems used in well testing operations.

Desirable Qualifications & Key Skills

  • Experience with HPHT and deepwater testing projects.
  • Experience with remote well testing operations.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.