Chevron Nigeria Job Vacancy For Drilling Engineer
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
Chevron Nigeria is one of the worlds leading energy companies, with approximately 60,000 employees working in countries around the world. We explore, produce and transport crude oil and natural gas; refine, market and distribute fuels and other energy products; manufacture and sell petrochemical products; generate power; and develop future energy resources, including biofuels and geothermal energy.
Chevron Nigeria Limited hereby invites applications from qualified candidates for employment.
Job Title: Drilling Engineer
Requisition Number: 081119865
Location: Lagos
Drilling and Completions at Chevron
We hold strategic positions in some of the worlds largest and most productive oil and gas regions. The approximately 1,400 people in the Drilling & Completions (D&C) team work in some of the worlds most challenging technical and operating environments.
The D&C “Clear Leader” philosophy provides us with a passion for safety and environmental protection, leadership for the development of new and innovative drilling and completions technology, and a commitment to the education and development of our workforce.
Position Details
Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:
- Focus on all drilling planning and execution issues
- Developing cost estimates and scoping of data for alternative well options – consider life of well issues (e.g. future workovers, recompletions, sidetracks, abandonment, etc.)
- Recommend drilling design alternatives (casing design, connectors, hydraulics, bit selection, drilling fluids, cement design, etc)
- Drilling Execution - participate on a Rig team to monitor and execute the drilling program
- Supply engineering and technical support to the Superintendent and Drill Site Manager or Company Man as necessary to execute the drilling program
- All aspects of drilling program design, development and permitting. Coordinate the gathering of pre-drill data for design criteria; including bottom hole assembly (BHA) data, offset well data, pore pressure, frac gradient, wellbore stability data, etc.
- Equipment procurement or forecasting
- Management of Contracts for Third Party services
- Vendor evaluation and selection, as well as work order development for vendors critical to the process
- Participation in the Chevron Project Development and Execution Process (CPDEP) phase gate meetings
- Involvement in numerous health, safety and environmental efforts
- Mentoring of national engineers
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in an Engineering discipline
- Minimum of 5 years experience as a drilling engineer or as a company representative.
- Note: Each country has specific requirements for non-national personnel to work in their country, initial assignments will be to locations commensurate with the successful candidates education and work experience.
- A valid passport issued from country of citizenship.
- Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English
- Proven competency in well design, execution planning, and drilling operations
- Strong communication and leadership skills for interaction with technical employees in the work group, their peers, and internal and external customers
- Candidate must be results and performance driven
- Candidate should be self motivated with the ability to act as a change agent
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to learn non-English languages
- Experience in multiple types of operations (e.g. land, offshore shelf, deepwater, geothermal, etc.)
Relocation Options
- Relocation may be considered within Chevron parameters.*LI-CM1
Application Closing Date: 20th March, 2013
Method of Application
Interested and Qualified candidates should
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