QatarEnergy
Senior Principal Reservoir Engineer
- Permanent
- Doha, Qatar
- Experience 15 - 20 yrs
Job expiry date: 19/09/2025
Job overview
Date posted
05/08/2025
Location
Doha, Qatar
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
15 - 20 yrs
Seniority
VP/Executive
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
19/09/2025
Job description
The Sr. Principal Reservoir Engineer is responsible for leading and coordinating reserves assurance sessions, ensuring proper documentation standards, conducting training, and supporting both internal and external audits under QatarEnergy’s PRMS guidelines. This senior role involves technical oversight on reserves reporting, integration with asset and business planning, and data compliance with InfoSec standards. It includes mentoring, cross-functional support, and active engagement in all phases of reservoir lifecycle management.
Required skills
reserves assurance
resource estimation
PRMS guidelines
reserves audits
reservoir simulation
decline analysis
material balance
production forecasting
reserves classification
petrophysics
volumetric analysis
pressure transient analysis
uncertainty analysis
risk assessment
PHDWin
reserves reporting
data management
economics evaluation
ARR process
project stage gates
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for conducting and coordinating reserves assurance sessions.
- Responsible for ensuring all reserves and resources documentation meet QatarEnergy’s standards.
- Responsible for ensuring all necessary staff reserves training sessions are conducted in accordance with the Petroleum Reserve Management System (PRMS) guidelines.
- Responsible for the coordination of reserves audits (internal and external) as advised by Head, PRM or Resource Committee.
- Supports the consolidation, aggregation and preparation of the reserves and resources content of the QatarEnergy’s annual reports.
- Liaise with Economics (CE) during the yearly economics evaluation update and department resource coordinators and provide support and review as required.
- Supports the integration between business plan, asset plans and reserves reporting standards processes.
- Supports data management to ensure that all reserves data are stored and accessible according to QatarEnergy’s Infosec standards.
- Provide technical guidance and support to the asset project teams as required during the ARR process.
- Provide on-the-job mentoring and coaching of less experienced staff and share / leverage knowledge and skills across subsurface community.
- Comply with HSE standards of the company.
Experience & skills
- Minimum 15 years (preferably 20+ years) of work experience as a Reservoir Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry.
- At least five years, or more, in resource estimation, classification and reporting preferably conducting assurance and audits.
- Strong fundamental technical reservoir engineering skill set.
- Significant experience in decline analysis, reservoir simulation, material balance and other production forecasting and reserves estimation methodologies.
- Strong understanding of reservoir characterization topics including geology, petrophysics, volumetric analysis and models.
- Significant expertise in analyzing well performance including pressure transient analysis.
- Experience in all phases of asset’s life from exploration through to late life.
- Significant expertise in uncertainty analysis and risk assessment/management.
- Strong understanding of finance, economics and legal issues associated with reserves and resources estimation.
- Strong understanding of project stage gates and approval mechanisms.
- Strong organizational, stakeholder’s engagement and database skills.
- Strong communication skills and experience working in a multicultural environment.
- Must be fluent in English.
- Desirable: Experience and exposure to wide range of the reservoir types, geological environments, geographies and development stages.
- Desirable: Experience with a major operating company and/or reputable consultancy.
- Desirable: Resource database – PHDWin or equivalent.
