Senior Drilling Engineer

Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Wells Group

Job Description:

We are now looking for an experienced Senior Drilling Engineer with a track record of managing complex multidisciplinary projects to join our bp team in Baku, Azerbaijan! In this position you will lead a team of drilling engineers and work closely with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to support the delivery of key projects that will enable the long-term development of the ACG field.

Please note that the role is open for Azerbaijani citizens only.

Key Acountabilities:

• Be accountable for empowering our people as part of the strategic company delivery goals.

• Be accountable for rigorous well engineering and its integration into the drilling operations plans to support safe, efficient delivery of reliable wells.

• Ensure compliance with bp Operating Management System, bp Practices, basis of designs and regulatory requirements for well construction.

• Collaborate closely with multi-discipline teams to craft and document the strategy for developing and implementing crucial new projects aligned with the strategic ACG hydrocarbons development plan. This entails outlining and prioritizing projects such as: Mudline whipstock phase II, Subsea Water Injection Wells (both Sidetracks and New manifolds), working with MPD.

• Drive standardization, continuous improvement, and utilization of best practice in engineering to ensure robust implementation of field development enabler projects.

• Accountable for required technical support to all procurement process related to the delivery of all projects in the scope.

• Actively collaborate with the ACG horizontals and multilaterals project team.

In this role, we have the following requirements:

Education:

• University degree in Science/ Engineering or equivalent technical degree Well Control for Subsea and Surface Supervisory Level to Industry Accreditation for example (IADC, IWCF or equivalent).

Skills and experience:

• Demonstrated relevant experience in oil and gas industry.

• Solid experience in managing multidisciplinary projects.

• Well construction planning/execution activities, deployment of new technologies, advanced P&A and decommissioning.

• Experienced in re-entry, sidetracks, horizontal and multilateral drilling.

• Proficiency in tubular design and related software (i.e. Stress Check, WellCat).

• Advanced knowledge in Wellbore Positioning and Wellbore Trajectory design and relevant software (i.e. COMPASS).

• Experienced in New Contracts technical evaluation and collaboration with contract governance processes.

• Professional level of Drilling Fluids and Cement design and ability to interpret outputs from.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior engineers and performing self-verification of detailed engineering work to ensure that standards are met.

• Strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with the ability to work in multidiscipline environment and communicate at all levels.

 

Why Join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.
 

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
 

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.
 

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing Design, Cementing, Common process for wells activities, Completions and Interventions Fluids, Control of Work, Cost Management, Directional Drilling, Drilling, Drilling data acquisition and well monitoring, Drilling Operations, Drillstring component selection, Electric-line, Equipment integrity assurance, Managed Pressure Drilling, Management of change, monitoring and maintenance, OMS and bp requirements, PPFG and geohazard principles for wells, Process Safety Management, Rig and vessel intake and start-up, Rig and vessel operations, Rig workovers, Risk Management {+ 14 more}

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