Petroleum Scientist

Our Client operates in the Oil and Energy industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Saudi Arabia. It has its branches spread to more than 50 countries, providing employment to more than 68,500 people all over the world. They fall under the Fortune 500 Companies. They are one of the world’s largest oil producers. They are constantly growing by creating new technologies through its Research and Development efforts and branch into new business lines through Investments and Acquisitions.

Responsibilities: 

• Engage in multi-disciplinary teams to identify well stimulation challenges and provide solutions to fill the technology gaps. 
• Initiate technology development proposal
• Design and draft different stimulation treatment under an integrated platform of fluid placement, well completion, reservoir geology and fluid selection
• Development and prototyping of new well stimulation technology in the context of well completion (MSF, plug & perf, acid tunneling) 
• Design and run lab experiments to evaluate new stimulation/fracturing technologies. 
• Familiarity with core flooding, rheological measurements and advanced material characterization 
• Perform business case analysis for the need to develop new products. 
• Expertise in modelling different stimulation processes using finite element/finite difference analysis is a plus. 
• Analyze large datasets, preferably using ML codes to develop predictive models. 
• Install and trial test new technologies in the field. Implement full-scale deployment of high-impact technologies
• Write and publish technical papers and patent applications
• Prepare and present technical talks to highly technical audience

Requirements:

• Hold a master degree in Chemistry, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical engineering or related discipline. 
• PhD degree is a plus
• Have A minimum of 5-10 years of related experience with demonstrated skills design and R&D of well stimulation/fracturing and stimulation tools development or scale mitigation/water treatment
• Have an intensive knowledge on different type of well stimulations from planning, designing and execution point of view. 
• Expertise of the different fluid systems/stimulation completions
• Skills in evaluating well performance pre – and post stimulation
• Expertise in simulating acid fracturing, proppant fracturing and matrix acidizing to optimize the design
• The candidate should be an independent thinker to apply knowledge gained from industry and academia to generate practical solutions in upstream oil and gas production
• Have history of technical publications and patents