Associate Technical Planner

Job Title: Associate Technical Planner

Department: Portfolio Management

Location: Lagos

Directly Reports to: Portfolio Manager.

JOB SUMMARY

This job strongly contributes to the OML30 Portfolio identifying short- and long-term production improvement opportunities as well as portfolio insights leveraging on data analysis to allow good quality business decision making.

The Technical Planner will be responsible for advising the Portfolio Management Team on the potential of available data, provide new insights into the business’s production targets and using advanced statistical analysis, data mining and data visualization techniques to create solutions that enable enhanced business performance. He / She will also use prevailing technology, science and data to determine if the processes in place are achieving the goals of the company.

Contributes to annual planning cycle, technical and commercial evaluation of resources and the portfolio value management activities of HEOSL.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Annual Work Program and Budget/Strategic Planning: Provide Petroleum Engineering input to the Annual Work Program and Budget activities. Support cross functional teams to define, develop and implement business planning processes, execute key business initiatives that will drive business operations, develop, and implement best practices to meet business objectives.
   
2. Reserves/Resource Volume Management: Contributes to technical and commercial evaluation of petroleum reserves and resources bookings and progression, looking for every opportunity to automate workflows for efficiency. Support the Team’s effort to develop Reserves Support Packages for the entire OML-30 assets and prepare reports as needed.
   
3. Production Forecasting: Support the OML-30 Oil and Gas Production Forecasting exercises including Short-, Medium- and Long-Term Forecasting for the asset budget planning cycle.
   
4. Annual Reservoir Performance Report: Contribute to the Team’s efforts to generate and maintain an Annual Reservoir Performance Report to communicate reservoir level performance status, and changes to production targets, explain variations and capture midterm corrective actions to the development plan.
   
5. Perform gap analysis to show production optimisation opportunities / slippages compared with budget planning, QA/QC of daily production data, day to day production analysis and identification of production critical areas of improvement.
   
6. Production Deferment Management. Track production deferment and perform sensitivity analysis to guide operations management decision for deferments optimisation.
   
7. Petroleum Economics: Run basic petroleum economic analysis, creaming curve generation, understanding of reconciled and fiscalized production.
   
8. Technical Documentation and Presentation. Prepare technical documentation and presentation slide packs for management use.
9. Data Engineering & Regulatory Reporting: Responsible for performing Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) operations after data gathering. Provide monthly and annual regulatory reports as may be required.

QUALIFICATION

Key qualifications for this role are:

• Sc. Petroleum Engineering, Computer Engineering or Geoscience.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in oil and gas business including a minimum of 2 years working experience with upstream data.
• Full understanding of upstream data types with good understanding of the data management functions concepts
• A plus if he / she has good understanding of Python, R, C++, Java, VBA macros etc.
• Expertise using PowerBI and/or Tableau or other similar tool is required.
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra); exceptional analytical skills; and a pragmatic approach to problem solving informed by a well-developed concept of strategy with Business Acumen.
• Be comfortable with meeting short deadlines and could deliver a quality product in a timely manner.
• Proactive in nature with excellent planning & organization skills

Broad understanding of other E&P disciplines