Assistant Drilling Supervisor at FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited
FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited (FIRST E&P) is a Nigerian oil and gas company that was established in 2011. It started formal business operations on the 1st of July, 2012. FIRST E&P is a deeply technical, commercial and entrepreneurial organization, with full delivery capability across the entire upstream oil and gas value chain.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Assistant Drilling Supervisor
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Provide well engineering and operations assistance to the Drilling Supervisor at the rig site.
- Carry out assigned well engineering tasks during days-in-office as given by the Senior Well Engineer.
Responsibilities
Drilling Operations:
- Production of Daily Drilling Report
- Calculation of kick-tolerance, MAASP, SCRP
- Understand the function of all down hole tools, including the basic function of all MWD / LWD tools
- Tracking plan vs actual directional surveys and provide understanding of the Survey and IFR QA/QC procedures
- Understand basic functionality of mud products & fluids and advise the Senior Drilling Supervisor of mud performance
- Monitor the drilling performance (ROP / formation response / flow rate / pump pressure / surface torque / WOB / down hole vibration / hole cleaning / LWD formation response) and advise the Senior Drilling Supervisor of any concerns and/or potential improvements, particularly:
- Excessive levels of vibration
- Excessive surge / swab pressure (BAP)
- Poor drilling performance
- Poor hole cleaning
- Check vibration limits are within predetermined limits.
- Supervise mudlogging, MWD/LWD/FEWD and wireline
- activities and monitor quality control in relation to these services
- Facilitate the analysis, evaluation and description of formations while drilling, using cuttings, gas, FEMWD (formation evaluation measurement while drilling) and wireline data
- Request mudloggers to carry out surge / swab calculations for all drillpipe trips. Request mudloggers to carry out hydraulic calculations for all BHAs. Monitor returns on ditch magnets and update daily trends
- Review bit dulls and condition of BHA, including hours logged for all components
- Witness casing integrity / cement bond logs if appropriate.
- Carryout spot ID check of casing and pre-measured lengths
- Closely monitor casing running operations including double checking of tally, including joints run / joints to be run / joints remaining on deck
- Understand and monitor the cementing operation, including mixing and pumping of spacer / barrels of cement mixed / dart dropping operations / barrels of displacement fluid / plug bump pressures.
- Witness casing shoe integrity tests and calculate min leak-off values.
- Ensure all as-run BHA are forwarded to the Fishing Contractor.
- Assist in the preparation of operational reporting, and efficient logistical planning & scheduling.
- Carryout cementing and casing tally calculations, ensuring sufficient stocks of chemicals cement and pipe are available to perform the planned operations.
- Specifically carry out an arithmetic check of all casing and liner strings on the final tally.
- In coordination with service companies, carryout deck checks / pre-job checks of casing / cementing / wellhead equipment and understand functionality of all tools and equipment
- Carry out Well Plan modeling on, buckling to run liners, torque and drag modeling.
Office:
- Contribute to the design of wells and create well programmes, detailed design and programme documents
- Carry out assigned well engineering tasks during days-in-office.
- Writing of hole section summaries for EOWR
Requirements
- Good first Degree in a Mechanical or Geoscience discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years well operations, and 1 years of experience in Drilling Supervisor role on offshore jack-up drilling, completion and workover operations
- Masters in Petroleum Engineering or Well Engineering desirable.
- Good ‘team player’ with ability to function well within a small, motivated team
- Strong analytical and problem solving ability
- Motivation and drive
- Ability to work under stress
- Flexibility and resilience
- Self awareness
- Computer literacy with competency in Microsoft Office applications
- Familiarity with Well Engineering software such as “stresscheck” desirable
- Valid IWCF Certificate (Surface Supervisory Level 4)
- Effective oral and written communication
- Self starter with good business awareness
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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