Job Family Group:
Wells Group
Job Description:
About bp
bp Technical Solutions India (TSI) centre in Pune, aims to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons and new energy businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable and lower emission energy, while continuously innovating how we work.
At bp, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. We’re leading the way in reducing carbon emissions and developing more sustainable methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, traders and business professionals determined to find answers to problems.
Job Profile Summary
The Senior Drilling Engineer is accountable for providing the engineering expertise required to support the delivery of well engineering activities that meet business objectives, adequately address safety and operational risk, follow local regulations and conform to bp practices. The Senior Drilling Engineer typically supports the Drilling Engineering Discipline Manager (DEM) during planning and Wells Superintendent (WSUP) during execution by reviewing and providing quality assurance for engineering tasks and documentation. The Senior Drilling Engineer performs a lead technical assurance role during the Well Concept Selection, Detailed Design & Execute phases of well delivery.
The Senior engineer in Pune supports the technical quality, risk management, design and concept optimization as well as coaching and mentoring junior engineers in developing technical and non-technical skills.
What you will deliver:
Safety, Risk Management and Compliance
Supports engineers assigned to regions:
Identify well control and process safety risks and ensure mitigations in well design / operations plans.
Ensures management of field-level Risk Register and development of well-specific Risk Registers including completeness and relevant preventions / mitigations.
Ensures effective discussion of risks, preventions, and mitigations during procedural reviews.
Supports Management of Change / Deviations by supporting/facilitating Risk Assessments and ensuring emerging risks are properly addressed.
Reviews well design, permitting, and operations while assuring compliance with local regulations and conformance with bp practices.
Supports HSE initiative through engineering choices eg Red Zone management reduction, well designs
Well Planning and Execution
Reviews optimal well plans with – coordinates with subsurface team and region operations team to safely, efficiently execute DGOP and deliver well objectives.
Leads Engineering Self-Verification and Oversight activities and collect insights and actions applicable to TSI engineers.
Right scoping for optimum well design or development plan in front end planning.
Leads multidisciplinary team during Detailed Design & Execute phases for Pune based squads.
Using the region wells work management tools, agile ways of working and digital tools to improve efficiency and perform quality oversight of engineers’ deliverables
Reviews well specific technical design documents and procedures (i.e. SoR, BoDs, DGOPs, WWIs, engineering modelling, procedures, etc.).
Supports time, cost estimating, cost monitoring during execution if applicable.
Manages knowledge content: lessons learnt, best practices, case histories, SITs etc. using the relevant tools and databases.
Participates in incident investigations and oversee the ESQ2 process.
Provides engineering technical support and review of contractor services including new technologies.
Contributes into continuous improvement projects, optimizes drilling performance and seeks new and more efficient ways to improve drilling performance.
Assures reliability / integrity via participation in equipment assurance and QA/QC documentation.
Ensures timely and accurate approval of well handover documentation if applicable.
Leadership, Values & Behaviours
Functions as a role model for V&Bs and ethics and compliance through words, actions, and decisions.
Promotes Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and seek to build enduring capability in self and others.
Identifies and embeds agile techniques, tools and efforts related to modernization and transformation.
Prioritize work-fronts for drilling engineers and multidisciplinary well planning squad members.
Works as team and exhibit good behaviours.
What You will need to be successful:
Must have educational qualifications:
Bachelor of Science in an Engineering discipline or higher.
Minimum years of relevant experience:
12+ years of industry experience in drilling.
Must have experiences/skills:.
Well Control Certification Combined Supervisor, IWCF/IADC.
Excels in drilling engineering detailed design and drilling operation execution.
Experience with Landmark suite software for modelling casing design, directional well plan, hydraulics, torque & drag in order to coach others.
Good to have experience/skills:
Involved Project /FEED stage
Brownfield development wells (economic delivery of smaller pool of reserves)
High pressure /depleted drilling/ERD drilling
Why join bp
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit in with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generously paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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