Well Integrity Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

The Senior Engineer Well Integrity is responsible for maintaining and developing the well integrity management systems including WIMS standards, and relevant procedures and guidelines and delivery tools:

• Conducts integrity system audit or review and assist Share Holder or Internal Auditors, monitor and analyses well integrity performance data, supports business units in implementation of WIMS requirements and is primary source of advice and information to business units and management on well integrity issues.
• Providing Awareness/ guidance to involved parties on integrity requirements, process & procedures.
• Assist Drilling, Development and fields to develop and prepare annual wells integrity plan.
• Assisting in MOC applications/reviews and provide guidance and participate in integrity assurance/ reviews.
• Complete and ensure timely and accurate data / inputs in appropriate data sources.
  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Follow up and make sure the Corporate Integrity Standards related to wells integrity and relevant procedures and guidelines are adopted properly for all the well life cycle phases by Drilling, asset Development, operations and production teams.
• Assure Drilling, and field production and operations are applying and complying with well integrity management requirements.
• Assure adequate wells integrity through design, construction, monitoring, and preventive/corrective maintenance by Drilling, field production and operations for all well lifecycle phase.
• Review, maintain, update well integrity processes, conduct well integrity review, and monitor compliance with WIMS requirements.
• Assure that corporate process is applied, maintained and adhered via WIMS performance, health checks, Quality assurance and fitness for service.
• Provide technical support related to WIMS requirements and communicate operating/critical envelops limit for operated wells.
• As required, communicate and assure the updated Well Integrity standards and manuals are properly adopted by all stakeholders for all the well lifecycle phases.
• Calculate and set annulus maximum allowable annulus surface pressures (MAASP’s)
• Define operating envelope. Calculate high- pressure alarm (HPA) and triggers.
• Carry out MAASP/ triggers re- calculation
• Conduct well integrity review, and monitor compliance with WIMS requirements
• Review, maintain, and update well integrity processes
• Establish monitoring, surveillance and maintenance regimes for well barriers elements that are aimed at minimizing the potential risks of any impairment to well barrier envelopes.
• Determine which of the barrier elements are considered safety critical elements that require performance standards and assurance tasks that confirm compliance to the WIMS standards
• Determine appropriate course of actions to address any well anomalies that are encountered during monitoring, surveillance and maintenance regimes
• Establish risk of loss of containment considering, well type, pressure, effluent, outflow potential, location, and environment against barrier redundancy.
• Identify the types of well anomaly and failure- related events that are possible for wells that are being assessed.
• Assess the integrity of all ADCO wells (prioritize, risk assess, risk rank, and generate a clear risk ranking list with all risk registers developed along with clear action plans to properly monitor the integrity of critical wells and how to fix their integrity issues in compliance with CIS requirements)
• Determine the potential consequences of each type of well failure- related event, and the magnitude of the risk of each type of well failure-related event based on the combined effect of consequence and likelihood.
• Assure all involved parties are aligned with the well integrity requirements for all the well lifecycle phases.
• Review reports of Well Integrity testing and track remedial actions to ensure all outstanding Well Integrity issues are captured in well integrity database for mitigating solutions in timely manners.

Desired candidate profile

• Communicate the analysis and trends of integrity threats to concerned parties and management.
• Assure that verified well integrity lessons learned are captured and communicated to concerned parties.
• Assure all Well Integrity requirements are managed either riglessly and/or being captured in wells prognosis and work over programs.
• Provide technical support to Asset Development, Drilling, and field production and operations for well intervention problems and solutions.
• Assure Drilling and Asset operations perform work in accordance with the company’s established and approved Well Integrity Standards and procedures.
• Identify integrity opportunities; sustain integrity system improvements by recommending integrity best practices & capturing end user feedback.
• Provide assurance to Drilling and Asset operation, by coordinating with Well Integrity Engineers and with Engineering & Projects to ensure compliance with integrity requirements for the new projects (assistance in the preparation of SOW & interpretation of integrity requirements & deliverables).
• As assigned, perform WIMS related duties such as participating in multi-divisional task forces, working groups, incident investigation teams relevant to well integrity technical issues.
• Understand and promote the company’s health, safety & environmental policy and objectives; perform work in accordance with the company’s established rules, regulations and approved procedures; intervene to stop unsafe acts and practices; and is accountable for the well being and safety of own self and others, including all contracted labor force – unskilled, semiskilled, and skilled.
• Plan, direct and actively participate in the ongoing training and development of own self, new hire, trainee, university student and subordinates with special emphasis on UAE Nationals. This includes assessing employees’ training and development needs, directing the preparation of structured development programs, monitoring progress and counseling trainees on alternative career paths and job profiles available in the company.
  

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline (Petroleum, Mechanical or chemical).
  

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• Minimum 10 years diversified experience in oil & gas production operations (Drilling, Completion, and work over, and production & Operations…)