Shell Nigeria Recruits Gas Allocation Engineer

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the pioneer and leader of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. It has the largest acreage in the country from which it produces some 43 per cent of the nation's oil. The company's operations are concentrated in the Niger Delta and adjoining shallow offshore areas where it operates in an oil mining lease area of around 31,000 square kilometers.

As a Shell engineer you will be integral to unlocking better energy solutions. Yours will also he developing on exciting portfolio of projects, and continuing to support Shell's safe, productive and efficient operations.

Shell is looking for people with a range of expertise in Engineering disciplines - Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Marine, Chemical, Offshore Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Applied Sciences.

Job Title: Gas Allocation Engineer

Job opening ID: 31
Type: Full time

The job requires a strong analytical, constructive and evaluative thinking ability especially in the light of integrated oil and gas operations as the flow and process streams of gas is more complex and the integrated production system configuration must be maintained to ensure proper allocation of sales, utilizations and disposals to producing/injecting conduit intervals for all streams (Oil/water/Gas/Gas Lift).

Since the Hydrocarbon Allocation role/function interfaces with many others namely, Production Operations, Production Programming, Production Technology, Reservoir / Surveillance Engineer, Process / Facilities / Maintenance / Technical Integrity Engineers, Production Chemists, HSE and Company Management. The Hydrocarbon Allocation Engineer should be a seasoned production operations engineer with a good depth of knowledge and experience in Surface Production Operations, production planning and programming and produced fluids sampling and metering.

Roles and responsibilities

• Sub-process owner (Gas) for -SPDC SOX (404) F2 – Hydrocarbon Allocation Process.
• Support engineer for Global process 15 implementation (Hydrocarbon Production Information Management).
• Company Production Process support (Gas) for introduction of new systems (e.g. Energy Components) and future upgrades.
• Responsible for the overall QA/QC process of SPDC Gas Production and sales data. Ensure area teams take corrective action for erroneous data.
• Support the corporate gas allocation team to assume full responsibility for gas allocation in SPDC’s integrated oil and gas production business
• Make input to the gas administration and sales requirement for new hydrocarbon allocation software package. Ensure all functional requirements are adequately covered
• Make input to the gas metering philosophy
• Support the condensate and gas allocation and reporting process
• Provide input into gas metering requirements for new projects and ensure compliance
• Liaise with gas customers and government gas companies on allocation issues
• Provide input into new gas sales and handling agreements and manage same
• Co-custodian of gas production and disposal data
• Gas production performance information reporting to internal & external stakeholders

Qualification and Experience

• Tthat the incumbent for this position would be an Engineering/Science graduate with about 8 years Production Operations experience of which about 5 years must have been spent in field operations. Experience in Production Programming or Hydrocarbon Accounting role would be an added advantage.
• Work experience 5 -7 years experience

With a technical role at Shell, you will find a supportive culture that encourages new ideas. Not only will you progress your career but you could help solve some of the world's biggest energy challenges, empowering people's lives around the world, now and into the future.
Lets deliver better energy solutions together.

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2013

Method of Application
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