Lead Completions / Production Engineer at Clinton Oilfield Limited – Rivers

Clinton Oilfield Limited seeks a Lead Completions / Production Engineer in Rivers State to take responsibility for well-completion planning, production optimisation and safe delivery of first oil from greenfield assets. The role includes integration with early production facilities and crude evacuation operations.

Well completions and production

• Design and deliver completion programmes covering tubing, packers, sand control and artificial lift.
• Monitor well and field production, evaluate performance and identify opportunities to improve recovery.
• Support selection, commissioning and operation of early production facilities (EPFs).
• Establish well-testing, production surveillance, allocation and integrity processes.
• Plan and manage interventions involving slickline, coiled tubing and workovers.
• Coordinate crude evacuation through barges, trucks or third-party infrastructure.
• Carry out nodal analysis, flow assurance, artificial-lift studies and other production engineering evaluations.

First-year milestones

• Q1: Define completion, production, well-integrity and crude evacuation strategies.
• Q2: Execute well completions and testing and support EPF installation and start-up.
• Q3: Optimise production, reduce downtime and carry out intervention programmes.
• Q4: Establish longer-term integrity plans and identify production-enhancement opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
• Ten to twelve years’ upstream oil and gas experience, with at least seven years in completions or production engineering.
• Experience of greenfield projects, EPF commissioning, well interventions and evacuation by barge.
• Essential experience in Nigerian onshore or swamp operations.
• Proficiency with Prosper, GAP, MBAL, Pipesim or PETEX tools.
• IWCF Well Intervention certification is an advantage.