Specialist, Artificial Lift

Job purpose

Designated as artificial lift specialist. Provides artificial lift related advice to subsurface and surface teams to achieve their objectives in the areas of technology management, technical challenges, standard practices and knowledge sharing. Acts as technical authority for all artificial lift aspects related with petroleum engineering.

Key accountabilities

Job specific accountabilities

• Assist and advise ADNOC Onshore’s assets on the best/optimum artificial lift design, technique and tools.
• Represent technical authority for artificial lift matters within ADNOC Onshore.
• Define standards for artificial lift systems in the assets.
• Support assets in determining opportunities for artificial lift design and optimization.
• Identify artificial lift challenges across all assets and implement new technologies and workflows.
• Capture artificial lift related lessons learned/best practices and ensure their communication across assets.
• Participate directly and indirectly in technical staff development (training, coaching, development, etc.).
• Coordinate with ADNOC HQ, shareholders and other OPCOs on relevant artificial lift systems activities to ensure best practices are captured.

Generic accountabilities

• Supervision
  Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
  Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.
  Perform any other related duties as and when required at the company’s discretion.
• Budgets
  Provide input for preparation of the section/department budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved budget and work plans to deliver section objectives.
  Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.
• Policies, systems, processes & procedures
  Implement approved section/department policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the section’s/department work programs in line with company and international standards.
• Performance management
  Contribute to the achievement of the approved performance objectives for the section/department in line with the company performance framework.
• Innovation and continuous improvement
  Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
  Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.
• Health, safety, environment (HSE) and sustainability
  Comply with the ADNOC Onshore/ADNOC HSE procedure requirements.
  Report all incidents and occupational illness to line supervisor.
  If aware of any unsafe practice or condition, or if in any doubt about the safety of any situation, immediately consult their line supervisor.
  Carry out the emergency responsibilities in line with the respective roles as per the emergency organization.
• Reports
  Provide inputs to prepare section MIS and progress reports for company management.

Communications & working relationships

Internal
Daily contact with TC peers, team leader within the department and other discipline managers in field development and operations.

External
Occasional contacts with ADNOC upstream, industry shareholders, and OPCOs to share industry lead practices and information.
Occasional contact with contractors and ADNOC Upstream.

Qualifications, experience, knowledge & skills

Minimum qualification
Bachelor in petro-technical discipline, advanced degree is preferable.

Minimum experience & knowledge & skills
10 years in well engineering (design, analysis and optimization and R&D), and 5 years of artificial lift operations or development of which include gas lift and ESP specialist roles. International experience is preferable.