Applications Engineer - Well Services (Locals)

Job Purpose
The Applications Engineer – Well Services provides technical and applications engineering support for Well Services operations and customer opportunities in Nigeria. The role translates customer well-construction, intervention, integrity, and abandonment requirements into safe, technically sound, and commercially competitive solutions. The position supports solution design, equipment and service selection, proposals, execution readiness, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and technology introduction.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Review customer well programs, tubular data, completion designs, well schematics, operating conditions, barrier requirements, and technical objectives.
• Develop and review technical proposals, job programs, procedures, calculations, equipment configurations, torque and handling requirements, operating limits, contingency plans, and schedules.
• Provide applications support across tubular running, mechanized rig systems, casing and completion running, connection make-up, wellbore cleaning, fishing and re-entry, intervention support, and well-abandonment applications, as applicable to the local portfolio.
• Confirm personnel, equipment, tooling, certification, inspection status, maintenance readiness, third-party interfaces, and documentation before mobilization.
• Provide technical support before, during, and after execution, including troubleshooting, operational-data review, equipment-performance assessment, and corrective actions.
• Analyze job results, prepare end-of-job reports, lead post-job reviews, and monitor KPIs and non-productive-time drivers.
• Support field trials, equipment qualifications, technology introductions, and product modifications with clear acceptance criteria, risk controls, and handover.
• Provide technical input to tenders, proposals, bid clarifications, presentations, cost estimates, equipment lists, and scope definitions.
• Participate in customer technical reviews and workshops, clearly explaining value, operating limits, risks, interfaces, and expected outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to expand Well Services technologies in Nigeria and support opportunity qualification, technical validation, contract handover, and transition to execution.
• Act responsibly for costs and expenses within approved budgets and Company procedures.
• Identify technical alternatives, equipment standardization, and planning improvements that reduce non-productive time and improve asset utilization and profitability.

Experience & Education
REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or another relevant engineering or technical discipline.
• Four to six years of relevant experience in Well Services, tubular running, drilling, completions, well intervention, well integrity, fishing and re-entry, abandonment, or related oilfield services.
• Practical experience in job planning, equipment selection, execution support, troubleshooting, technical reporting, and customer interaction.
• Experience preparing technical programs, procedures, proposals, calculations, equipment lists, and operational recommendations.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

PREFERRED

• Experience with tubular running, casing and completion installation, mechanized handling systems, connection make-up, wellbore cleaning, intervention, fishing and re-entry, or well abandonment.
• Experience in Nigeria or another Sub-Saharan African operating environment across land or offshore activity.
• Familiarity with local-content considerations and IOC, NOC, or indigenous operator requirements in Nigeria.
• Relevant well-control, lifting, offshore, or product-line technical certifications.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong understanding of Well Services applications, equipment selection, job design, tubular and completion interfaces, and associated technical and HSE risks.
• Ability to interpret well programs, schematics, tubular specifications, connection data, equipment ratings, operating parameters, and job results.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills under operational time pressure.
• Working knowledge of equipment operating envelopes, certification and inspection requirements, well barriers, torque and handling considerations, and contingency planning.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including technical reporting and customer presentations.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to balance technical performance, operational risk, equipment availability, customer value, schedule, and cost.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant engineering, calculation, reporting, and operational-data systems.

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