Context & Environment
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There is no equivalent project of such an industrial drilling magnitude in a remote and sensitive area within the Group today. The Tilenga oilfields are partly situated in a protected National Park, partly beneath the river Nile wetlands area, and within
densely populated area in a rural and remote part of Uganda. Activities exposed to the risk of major incidents with severe potential consequences due to local environment and important presence of NGO’s. Factory Drilling with a well delivered every 4 days using 3 drilling rigs simultaneously will necessitate standardization of equipment and procedures, strict enforcement of Drilling & Well instructions, safe and efficient logistic management on site. The project is focused on delivering the lowest possible cost, which requires challenging design concepts as well as substantially challenging the Company referential. Challenging production fluids (high oil viscosity on Northern Wellpads, very waxy crudes on Southern wellpads) will have to be
treated through the oil production chain, which makes Tilenga project unique in terms of production chemistry, separation and PWT challenges.
Multicultural environment: Contractors will be located in various parts of the world. Ugandan rules and regulations, administrative requirements and technical authorizations as well as international codes for onshore plant will apply.
Activities
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Main Duties and Responsibilities:
HSSE
- Adopt and demonstrate exemplary behavior with regard to HSEQ rules & requirements, as well Company Ethics & “Code of Conduct” policy.
- Promote HSE culture within his/ her discipline and ensure HSE related topics are treated as top priorities in his discipline.
- Ensure HSE standard of Lab services for contractors match the company rules & referential and adherence to safety requirements on chemical handling.
- Ensure regular HSE audits to the lab at CPF and KSF and follow-up of action plan.
- Provide support to diagnose and identify corrective actions to resolve anomalies/incidents reported in relation to production chemistry.
- Be up to date with HSE trainings, ensure the company Golden rules are known and applied at work and during daily life.
- Ensure environmental impact is minimized during production and process upsets and propose technical solutions to minimize impact.
Technical
- Provide monthly treatment instructions/guidelines to site.
- Follow-up injection performance, provide treatment KPI and regular consumption. Present the outcomes during the monthly production performance meeting.
- Perform technical troubleshooting and aid site for topics related to production chemistry.
- Collaborate with OT specialist if needed to answer queries and/or provide technical support for complex topics.
- Coordinate with other technical disciplines to provide responses to complex problems related to production chemistry, operability and availability, integrity, emissions and others.
- Coordinate Update and/or preparation of laboratory procedures and other laboratory supporting documents.
- Keep updated Laboratory analyses program in accordance with sampling frequency and requirements.
- Formalize REX / lessons learned related to Production Chemistry and Laboratory discipline.
- Ensure knowledge transfer and coaching to the junior chemical treatment engineer.
- Act as technical Authority for all topics related to production chemistry and laboratory.
Contracts
Chemicals Procurement:
- Follow-closely stock levels at CPF and at CTR chemicals warehouse. Ensure POs are issued on time to maintain chemicals availability and avoid stock rupture or perturbation to the operation on site.
- Close follow-up on the entire chemicals supply chain, ensure interfaces are well managed between the different work packs and that RACI matrix is available and respected.
- Assess the performance of the selected chemicals, initiate chemicals change request in case of low performance of used chemicals.
- Ensure implementation of the blending facility at CTR premises and that blended chemicals quality is inline with required spec.
- Ensure to launch and lead the next CFT for chemicals supply on time, taking into account the long lead time for such process.
Lab services
- Follow up closely the performance of lab services CTR.
- Ensure lab equipment and consumables procurement process is initiated and validated on time to avoid perturbance of the lab activities.
- Follow with the lab CTR the implementation of the certification ISO 17025.
OPEX
- Prepare Long Term Plan and Work programs for Treatment related activities for validation.
- Prepare and validate OPEX budget related to chemicals supply and lab services. Follow up the monthly OPEX performance related to them and present the results during FO monthly performance meeting.
- Propose optimizations to reduce OPEX related to chemicals.
Digital
- Assist in implementation of Digital systems and tools in consultation with the Project Digital Lead.
Candidate Profile
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Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Process or Chemical Engineering
- Minimum 10 years in the upstream oil & gas industry, with at least 3 years operations experience on site.
- Solid Know-how and expertise in production chemistry and laboratory analyses
- Problem-solving skills for complex and integrated processes
- Knowledge of industry norms and specifications
- Fully conversant with the Company’s Specifications, H.S.E. and Process design rules
- Good communication skill, reliability, autonomy, organization and method
