
OQ
Field Production Engineer
- Permanent
- Muscat, Oman
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 17/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
02/09/2025
Location
Muscat, Oman
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Experienced
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
17/10/2025
Job description
To provide robust Production Engineering duties to the Subsurface development in areas of field development with Operated Assets - Subsurface, under TL WRM by planning production, well design & completion, applying production engineering practices to well & reservoir management, well design and completion, IPM; for the production in significant oil/gas deposits. The position will act in accordance with the Group’s Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, policies, guidelines, standards, HSE requirements, Omani legal regulations, and international best practices.
Required skills
production engineering
well design
completion procedures
well and reservoir management
performance monitoring
system optimization
well intervention planning
root cause failure analysis
production surveillance
Prosper
GAP
Pipesim
Foresite
PETEX IPM
water shut off
MS Office
project management
physics
mathematics
quality control analysis
Key responsibilities
- Deployed in the field supporting one of development fields in inshore Oman, working within a cross-disciplinary team of subsurface, wells and production operations peers.
- Work collaboratively to safely manage field production and injection in areas such as performance monitoring and surveillance, system optimization, and well intervention evaluation and coordination.
- Provide robust technical engineering expertise, support, and create innovative solutions related with the execution of production engineering processes.
- Handle a large scope of projects simultaneously and provide guidance to junior engineers, trainees, and teams.
- Deliver day-to-day field management activities including well and system monitoring, surveillance and well testing planning, monitoring and validation.
- Use system modeling and optimization to identify and progress short- and medium-term production enhancement opportunities.
- Contribute to well and reservoir reviews.
- Understand daily well performance, issue short-term production updates, and document production shortfalls in OPEP management system.
- Participate in Root cause failure analysis techniques and embed findings within the team.
- Coordinate well intervention activities from planning to execution and post-job evaluation.
- Identify and manage well risks and document surveillance, barriers, and mitigation measures.
- Provide clear communication and operational instructions to the field team for site execution.
- Integrate with the projects, wells and subsurface teams for field development.
Experience & skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering or equivalent.
- Excellent knowledge of written, read, and spoken English (required) – Arabic native desirable.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Track record of deadline delivery and result orientation.
- Relevant software experience: Prosper, GAP, Pipesim, Foresite preferred.
- Experience in well & reservoir management, production operations and completion procedures.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience using PETEX IPM suite of tools is an advantage.
- Experience in water shut off in open hole horizontal is a plus.
- Computer literacy including MS Office & relevant Petex software preferable.
- Project Management skills.
- Knowledge in mathematics, physics, and quality control analysis.