Senior P&A Engineer

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Rotation: 4×4

Responsibilities:

Owner: Senior Manager Drilling and Completion

GENERAL:

• Exhibit a sound knowledge of discipline, the organization's systems, and provide a satisfactory level of competence in identified behaviors and skills required.

• Work independently, approaching complexe situations providing recommendations on local/region al issues by working/interacting with other internal/external departments regularly.

• Proactively anticipate problems and apply independent judgement to develop approaches to solving problems.

• Seek experience and expertise of more senior staff when dealing with situations with little or no precedence or in the development of new ideas or technology.

• Mentors staff within area of expertise, and may include responsibility for specific budget/ Capital spending idems.

• Support and promote the company's policies, business philosophy, objectives and values.

•  Exhibit strong teamwork, communication, attention to details and problem solving skills.

HSE:

•  Contribute in ensuring compliance with both regulations and company procedures, and handle non conformities as required.

• Identify risks to people and the environment, and mitigate them so they are as low as reasonably practicable.

• Proactively identify ways to continuously improve HSE performance.

• Stop any job that may harm people or the environment.

• Transfer experiences, good and bad, which could lead to continuous improvement of HSE performance.

GENERAL ATTRIBUTES:

Mission:

• The P&A engineer is overall accountable for planning, execution & wrap up of P&A activities and campaigns.

FUNCTIONS:

In specific, the focus is made to the overall well integrity for permanently plugged wells.

•  Provide support to pursue Technical Excellence, ensuring Quality of P&A designs, Equipment and Services, and verifying Compliance to Requirements and Standards relating to slot recovery and P&A (incl. HSE, QA/QC, etc.).

•  The P&A engineer shall also identify and recommend new technology and communicate with Authorities and Partners on Technical Issues.

•  Creating and maintaining records of these operations.

•  Preparing activity programs.

•  Responsibilities delegated by the Team Lead P&A.

•  Efficient conduct of tasks that are assigned to him/her by the Team Lead P&A.

•  Manage P&A activities in compliance with regulations and corporate policy.

•  Provide knowledge and experience transfer.

•  Assure regulatory and corporate policy compliance.

•  Manage and coordinate the operation onshore, including technical support, logistics and contact with suppliers.

•  Follow up required procurement & contract administration.

•  Plan upcoming P&A activities according to the Well Design & Delivery Process and other Plans & instructions from the Team Lead P&A.

•  Estimate cost and risk of the upcoming P&A activities.

•  Cooperate with departments. Budget and Logistic Administrator on cost and logistic matters.

•  Prepare plug and abandonment programs, ensuring that risk management, safety and efficiency satisfy the Repsol HSE Management System. Ensure lessons learned are used during the planning.

•  Initiate the operation in cooperation with the actual platform management, offshore drilling/well operation supervisors.

•  Manage and coordinate the operation onshore, including technical support, logistics, contact with suppliers and contact with the Operating Unit (OU) and in house specialists.

•  Provide QAQC of daily reports (IDS incl. NPT time), daily support to the offshore supervisors and Team Lead P&A.

•  Preparation of Non Conformance Reports when relevant.

•  Follow up the progress in the operation according to plans and initiate corrective steps in cooperation with the offshore supervisors & Team Lead P&A.

•  Generate and distribute regular reports from the operation and ensure final reporting.

•  Champion lessons learned, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the D&C department.

•  Ensuring that third party equipment and services are available to an acceptable standard and on time.

•  Updating service company personnel on operational progress.

•  Review of new technology and the communication of information relevant to the company's operations.

•  Challenge existing designs and operational processes in order to apply best technologies and practices, and minimize operation costs.

•  Preparation of load out lists.

• Ensuring that well data bases (CSD, WIMS) are updated with P&A information and status.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree: MSc from petroleum related studies

• Special Knowledge required: Very good knowledge and understanding of NORSOK D-010

• Professional experience: Minimum 10 years’ experience as Drilling Engineer, primarily from development drilling operations. Some experience as Completion Engineer is desired. Previous experience from P&A is an advantage. General good understanding and experience from intervention operations. Minimum 4 years of offshore experience from D&C related operations

• Software skills: General good experience with Microsoft products

Additional requirements:

• Onshore/ offshore

• Primary Onshore, but offshore must be expected in the execution phase

• Offshore health certificate & IWCF Certificate