Senior Reservoir Engineer

Senior Reservoir Engineer

DNO Norge AS is looking for an experienced Senior Reservoir Engineer to join our team in Stavanger.

As a Senior Reservoir Engineer in the Subsurface Projects Team, you will work in close cooperation with other disciplines to develop our recent discoveries, both operated and non-operated.

Your tasks will be varied and include the following: provide production profiles and reserves/resources estimates, create and run simulation models and support well test planning and test evaluation. The position requires extensive interaction with other disciplines and departments in the DNO North Sea organization. You will represent DNO in applicable license committees and ensure compliance with DNO standards and best industry practice.

Key responsibilities:

• Support DNO's portfolio of development assets with critical reservoir engineering analysis
• Build reservoir simulation and analytical models as required for DNO's discoveries
• Use advanced numerical simulation and analytical techniques to forecast oil and gas production from both new and existing DNO's hydrocarbon fields
• Collaborate with other technical professionals in devising economically viable development plans for oil and gas accumulations
• Provide reservoir engineering input to support the exploration team (tech-ec)
• Provide input to asset reporting on a routine basis (annual reserves reporting, monthly production forecasting, annual production budget)
• Maintain key Life of Field input and assumptions for asset evaluations
• Acquire/coordinate specialized reservoir studies such as PVT, SCAL and DST
• Provide input to well planning and asset long term planning

Communication, cooperation and development:

• Day to day communication and input to Subsurface Projects Team Lead
• Actively cooperate within the team and across teams, as appropriate, to ensure free exchange of information, knowledge, and resources in pro-active manner
• Cooperate with interdisciplinary team to ensure good quality of input (petrophysics, SCAL, PVT, G&G) and output (economics, commercial aspects) to in-house models
• Keep updated on new developments in geoscience/reservoir technology and explore possible applications to exploration and development opportunities
• Maintain professional knowledge base, particularly best practice

HSE management and compliance:

• Contribute to the HSE performance for operated assets and ensure any other activities conform to DNO's HSE policy and Norwegian regulations
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement in HSE performance

Required experience and qualifications:

• Master's degree
  Petroleum Engineering (or equivalent)
• Experience from NCS activity and regulatory requirements
• 10+ years' experience in reservoir engineering, covering field development and production phases, preferably with an operator
• Detailed understanding of risk and all factors effecting volumetric and reserves estimation
• Advanced user of Excel spreadsheets
• OFM, MBAL, Eclipse/Petrel RE
• Decline curve analysis of production forecasting
• Experience with well test analysis

Personal qualities and skills:

• Effective communication and collaboration skills, ability to build relationships and to influence others
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Proactive and able to work with little supervision
• Structured, with good analytical skills
• Fluent in English written and oral

We can offer a work environment where we have open discussions, support each other, and make high quality decisions with engagement, humour and giving everyone the opportunity to be at their best.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply as soon as possible within the due date.