Required to relocate to Saudi Arabia.
Job Title: Superintendent Reservoir Characterization
Job Location: Saudi Arabia
Job Purpose
Responsible for overseeing reservoir characterization activities, including geological, geophysical,
petrophysical, reservoir management and reservoir modeling aspects, ensuring understanding of
reservoir properties and behavior to optimize production and reservoir development.
Job Dimensions and Business Metrics
- Leadership responsibilities include the overall direction, planning and evaluation of Reservoir
- Characterization unit.
- Makes budgetary recommendations.
- Responsible for direct and indirect headcount management of 2+ full-time equivalent (FTE)
- employees.
- Highest level of confidentiality and access to information which unauthorized disclosure could be
- expected to have a severe or catastrophic adverse effect on organizational operations,
- organizational assets, or individuals.
- Decisions are made within policy parameters.
- Partially accountable for long-range operational planning in assigned areas
Key Accountabilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned as required.
- Oversees geophysical studies and surveys to map subsurface reservoir structures.
- Oversees utilization of seismic data and technology to analyze reservoir characteristics and
- identify potential drilling targets.
- Oversees collaboration with geophysicists and seismic interpreters to interpret data accurately.
- Oversees petrophysical studies to evaluate reservoir rock properties, fluid content, and porosity.
- Oversees conduction of core analysis, well log interpretation, and petrophysical modeling.
- Oversees integration of petrophysical data with geological models for reservoir characterization.
- Oversees geological modeling activities to build accurate reservoir models.
- Oversees collaboration with geologists to create 3D and 4D geological models.
- Oversees modeling software to predict reservoir behavior and optimize well placement.
- Provides reservoir characterization expertise to evaluate reservoir properties, connectivity, and
- performance.
- Oversees collaboration with reservoir engineers to optimize field development plans.
- Oversees conduction of reservoir studies, including material balance, pressure transient analysis,
- and decline curve analysis.
- Oversees analyses of reservoir data, geological models, and petrophysical data to make data-
- driven decisions.
- Oversees preparation of comprehensive reports on reservoir characterization findings and
- recommendations.
- Communicates findings to senior management and cross-functional teams.
- Acquires funds for the end-to-end unit's activities and manages assigned budget.
- Accountable for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the managed unit.
- Strictly follows established environmental, health, safety and quality policies and procedures in
- order to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality
- products/services and a responsible environmental attitude.
- Advocates safety culture across the organization.
- Provides environmental, health, and safety leadership in maintaining a goal of zero incidents,
- process safety and environmental events within area of responsibility.
- Develops and implements operational excellence (OE) requirements within the assigned area,
- coaching staff in expectations to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
- Undertakes accountabilities in the operational excellence process as set out in the schedule of
- responsibilities.
- Contributes to the processes of continuous improvement for the area managed and the
- organization more widely.
- Performs any other relevant task as directed by Petroleum Engineering Manager
Qualifications
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education, Certificates, Licenses, Registrations and/or Experience
- 8 to 10 years related experience including 1-2 years at a supervisory level, covering contract Oil & Gas/Geology Engineering area in oil & gas sector organization.
- Academic background includes a minimum of a bachelor degree in a relevant field such.