Senior HPHT Drilling Engineer
BH-337583
Posted: 09/06/2026
- Competitive
- Norway Rogaland Stavanger
- Contract
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Oil & Gas
Senior HPHT Drilling Engineer
Contract period: ASAP - 1 year duration
Location: Stavanger
Main tasks:
Qualifications:
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
Contract period: ASAP - 1 year duration
Location: Stavanger
Main tasks:
- Responsible for planning and design work for the well project drilling campaign
- Perform drilling engineering services in the well project to accomplish the established objectives and plans
- Part of Operations Team (OP Team) during Drilling Operation
- Collaborate with subsurface to finalise the drilling concepts and finalise the main drilling program
- Key contributor for well cost, ensure delivering of drilling operation on time and budget
- Core task to follow up: Well path design (Compass), Casing Design (WellCAT), Directional drilling and well-bore positioning equipment, Material technology, Down-hole understanding, Logging, Rock mechanics, Capping and containment, Pore pressure and well-bore stability, Well Integrity, Well incident and blowout preparedness, Well control equipment and systems, Kick tolerance software, Fluids, Cementing, Well-bore cleanup, Torque/drag/hydraulics (Well-plan) Risk management, Time and cost estimation (deterministic and probabilistic)
- Support and advice on daily tasks for other Drilling Engineers and Supervisors in the team
- Preparation of End of Well Reports, ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are captured, shared, documented, and followed up
- Offshore travelling on request
Qualifications:
- HPHT Production Wells W/high-angle background in Design, Planning and Execution
- Good understanding of geology and subsea considerations
- Experienced with Well Engineering software Oliasoft and other software’s like Qx and WellBarrier
- Experienced with Semi-sub operations
- NCS experience drilling Haltenbanken
- Minimum 12 years of relevant experience
- HPHT experience – Must have proven, extensive experience in HPHT, supported by references to relevant projects.
- Team builder where co-operation and teamwork is essential
- Performance driven and commercial mind-set
- Offshore experience
- Valid Offshore Safety course
- Valid IWCF certificate
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.