Senior Petroleum Engineer at WAEP – Lagos

WAEP is hiring a Senior Petroleum Engineer in Lagos to guide reservoir management, production forecasts, field development and well opportunities. The position supports hydrocarbon recovery and long-term asset value through integrated subsurface engineering.

Role Purpose

• The Senior Petroleum Engineer provides high-level petroleum engineering support for reservoir management, production optimization, reserves maturation, well opportunity generation and field development to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and long-term asset value.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform integrated reservoir and production engineering studies to support field development and reservoir management decisions.
• Develop and update production forecasts, depletion plans and reservoir surveillance programmes.
• Evaluate reservoir and well performance using pressure, production, PVT and other subsurface data.
• Identify and mature infill drilling, workover, intervention and production optimization opportunities.
• Support static/dynamic model integration, history matching. forecasting and uncertainty evaluation.
• Contribute to reserves and resources estimation, classification, maturation and reporting
• Provide petroleum engineering input to Field Development Plans, annual work programmes, budgets and investment proposals.
• Work closely with Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Wells, Production and Facilities teams to optimize development decisions.
• Participate in well planning, well performance reviews, technical assurance and post-well evaluations.
• Coach less-experienced engineers and promote strong technical standards, documentation and knowledge sharing.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Production forecast accuracy
• Quality and timeliness of reservoir studies
• Maturation of value-adding well opportunities
• Reserves/resource technical support quality
• Reservoir surveillance effectiveness
• Production optimization value delivered
• Technical assurance and documentation compliance

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Relevant Master’s Degree is an added advantage.
• Must have 10-12 years’ relevant upstream E&P petroleum/reservoir engineering experience.
• Relevant professional engineering membership or certification is desirable.

Core Competencies

• Reservoir engineering and simulation
• Production forecasting and optimization
• Reservoir surveillance
• Reserves and resources evaluation
• Well opportunity maturation Field development planning
• Uncertainty and risk analysis
• Petroleum economics awareness
• Technical assurance
• Multidisciplinary collaboration