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Job Title: Senior Reservoir Engineer

Job Location: Moscow, Russia

Job Type: Permanent Job

Job Overview:

A IOC seek a Senior Reservoir Engineer to join a newly formed head-office subsurface team to play a key role in the maximisation of value from their subsurface assets. Applicants are invited with a minimum of 5 years’ industry experience, excellent reservoir dynamic characterization skills, reservoir monitoring, optimizationexperience and the desire to join a well known International Company on the threshold of significant exciting expansion.

Job Responsibilities:

Well test design, supervision and interpretation.
Design, monitoring and interpretation of interference tests.
Design of fluid sampling and PVT analyses. Interpretation of the data obtained from those analyses. Fluid characterization.
Design and interpretation of water compatibility studies for water injection systems.
Design and interpretation of Conventional and Special Core Analyses.
Understanding of rock properties from wireline logs and core analyses.
Ability to work effectively and cooperatively within multidisciplinary teams of other professionals in all aspects of field development, reservoir characterization and reservoir monitoring.
Design and interpretation of production logs.
Interpretation of cement logs.
Perform well location assessment, wellbore trajectory planning for highly deviated and horizontal wells, develop subsurface well prognosis estimates.
Design well completions and artificial lift requirements.
Define perforation intervals with the geologist.
Evaluate and determine reserves and resource figures. Prepare the data for reserve audits.
Reservoir and production daily surveillance.
Quality checking of field data based on a good knowledge on Gas Oil Separation Plants, fiscal metering and meter proving.
Design and follow-up of reservoir pressure monitoring programs.
Perform production allocation based on production tests and field production data.
Determine production forecasts based on decline analysis and dynamic simulation.
PrepareField Development Plans.

Candidate Requirements:

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering.Advanced Degree Preferred.
Solid background in Reservoir Engineering.
At least 5 years relevant oil industry experience with some or all with an operator essential.
Proven experience in reservoir monitoring and dynamic simulation, integrating production, log and core data essential.
Good knowledge of advanced reservoir engineering tools:
Prosper
MBal
GAP
PanSystem or Saphyr
ECLIPSE
OFM
Experience in Conventional and Special Core Analysis methodologies and interpretation.
Experience in PVT experiments and analysis interpretation.
Experience in well testing design and supervision.
Experience in PLT design, supervision and interpretation.
Experience in reserves estimations following SPE or SEC rules.
Experience in production data quality checking and production allocation.
Previous experience of working assets in Russia.
Ability and desire to mentor more junior staff, to share knowledge and experiences to increase the skill set of the team.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills essential; must be able to convey information and ideas through presentations and reports in a clear manner that engages the audience and helps them to understand the technical issues involved
Self-motivated individual with the ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment.
Confidence to tackle areas outside their comfort zone, merging their own skills with contributions from colleagues in other disciplines to resolve complex, multi-faceted problems.
Tact and diplomacy in dealing with partners, licensing authorities, third parties and consultants.
Entrepreneurial with a strong desire to be successful in developing oil and gas assets.
Fluent in both spoken and written English.