Reservoir Engineer

Job Title: Reservoir Engineer
Department: Subsurface
Location: Basra
Working Pattern: 14/14 or 21/21 Rotation



Key Accountabilities:

Reservoir Surveillance & Technical Analysis

• Provide surveillance recommendations, QC, and interpretation of surveillance data to inform reservoir management decisions.
• Performance management of the different reservoir units, able to use the pressure & water cut data to explain the pressure & sweep performance and how this will be linked to the AOP.
• Support the delivery of surveillance program by integration with surveillance team, provide value of information and prioritization of planned candidates.
• Ensure high‑quality pressure surveillance planning, QC, and interpretation.

Waterflood & Performance Optimization

• Work closely with Base Management and Waterflood Operations to optimize VRR, diagnose injection system constraints, and maximize value of water.
• Maintain simple, effective dashboards and analytics (Power BI, Python, Spotfire) to track field performance against plan.

Opportunity Maturation

• Identify and mature well‑work (Conversions, recompletions, twins) and new‑well opportunities into the RMT Hoppers.
• Collaborate across subsurface disciplines to ensure opportunities are technically integrated and aligned with reservoir strategy.

Cross‑Disciplinary Integration & Quality Assurance

• Drive alignment across geology, petrophysics, operations, wells, and production teams to ensure consistent understanding of reservoir status and required actions.
• Assure quality of key reservoir management deliverables and communicate risks, deviations, and opportunities to senior leadership.

Criteria & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering with 7+ years of proven experience in Reservoir Management.
• Strong classical Reservoir Engineering skills: Material Balance, DCA, PTA, PVT.
• Proficiency with PROSPER, MBAL, Kappa Saphir.
• Ability to interpret scarce and ambiguous data to drive conclusions, diagnose issues, and define mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with surveillance workflows and value‑of‑information approaches.
• Working knowledge of data analytics tools (Power BI, Python, Spotfire).
• Strong collaborator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Safety‑focused mindset with willingness to challenge unsafe practices.
• Thrive for technical excellence, structured thinking, and cross‑disciplinary integration.
• Supports development of junior engineers and contributes to a learning‑oriented team culture.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) with an ability to communicate information and evaluations in a clear and concise manner, in English.
• Experience creating coherent material and present at key meetings including to non-subsurface disciplines.
• High proficiency with Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
• Experience in dynamic reservoir simulation is an advantage.

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