Posted: 3 Oct 2009
Location: USA
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POSITION SUMMARY
Provide reservoir engineering technical support and representation for the projects in Development with focus primarily on offshore Australia Browse Basin gas fields. However, as needed, the individual will assist in other technical efforts within Development. As a BHPBilliton employee, HSE, Quality, Regulatory, Risk Assessment/Mitigation, Contingency planning and other associated programs are managed according to BHPB Corporate and Petroleum standards, policies and practices.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
* Participate in equity determination technical sub-committee.
* Field Depletion Plans: create robust development scenarios for the fields: well types, number, locations, timing.
* Reserves: Create production profiles for fields and help achieve stated business goals and milestones.
* Dynamic properties in geologic models: Provide guidance to geoscience model development related to fluid flow aspects of models.
* Saturation functions: Collaborate with petrophysicist to develop saturation-height functions, facies classifications, and relative permeability curves for use in models.
* Developing strong working relationships with technical members of partner teams.
* Communicate with JV partners and regulatory bodies on engineering technical issues, as requested.
* Foster teamwork and maintain a positive work environment to achieve job satisfaction and, consequently, contribute effectively.
* Develop technical and leadership capabilities.
* Document technical work.
KEY DELIVERABLES / KEY DIMENSIONS
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Team & Functional KPIs
* Member of Develop. Subsurface Engineering
BEHAVIOURAL & LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
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Living the BHP Billiton Charter
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Strive for Individual and Team Functional Excellence
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Willingness to listen, share and look for common solutions in a purposeful way.
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Be an Outstanding Team Mate.
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Strive for excellence in everything we do - from small things to the really important.
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Attention to detail.
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Disclosure of the facts.
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Healthy debate - then full support.
* Respect the agreed rules and demand the same from others
AUTHORITY & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The incumbent will be a staff reservoir engineer in the team, responsible for technical coordination and mentoring of less senior REs on the team. The reservoir engineer will work closely with all subsurface team members. External stakeholders should be engaged in a positive manner.
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Geoscience teams
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Production Engineering
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Development project teams
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Functional Chiefs
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Joint Venture partners
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Commercial teams
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Other Development and Production teams.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
The candidate should have at least fifteen years or more of relevant experience. Experience with large (greater than $1Billion) developments is desirable as is experience with equity determination, reserve estimation, geological modeling, reservoir characterization, production assurance, well planning and drilling operations.
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Experience in production operations for large fields.
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Good technical communicator (written and spoken) and influencing skills
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Excellent collaboration skills
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Experience running Eclipse, GAP, Prosper, MBAL, Petrel.
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Demonstrated success as a reservoir engineer.
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Proficiency in a broad range of reservoir engineering subjects.
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Bachelor degree in relevant Engineering or Science discipline required
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Fluent English
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