Santos
Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.
Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.
Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.
Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the Role
Are you passionate about optimizing oil and gas assets and shaping the future of energy development? Santos is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer to lead our technical assessments and support key operational and development decisions.
As the Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer at Santos, you will play a crucial role in evaluating and enhancing the performance of our operated oil and gas assets. Your expertise will guide infill drilling programs, reservoir management, and reserves analysis. By developing robust and defendable reservoir models, you’ll forecast production and volume outcomes under various development scenarios, ultimately driving optimal reservoir depletion plans and maximizing the value of our resources.
- Develop and Maintain Reservoir Models: Create and manage dynamic models to test reservoir uncertainties, evaluate depletion plans, optimize development sequences, and identify opportunities for increased production and reserves.
- Contribute to Subsurface Activities: Engage in petroleum engineering, drilling, workover, completion programs, reservoir simulation, reserves redetermination, and reserve audits.
- Forecast and Data Provision: Provide volumetric, EUR, and forecast data for corporate production forecasts and economic assessments of future projects.
- Promote Integration: Ensure cohesive integration across all reservoir development disciplines to enhance project outcomes.
- Support Drilling Operations: Offer reservoir engineering expertise to support on-call asset drilling operations.
- Robust Modelling: Develop and maintain technically robust reservoir simulation models to support optimal development and depletion planning.
- Economic Assessments: Deliver recovery factor, EUR, and production forecast ranges for economic evaluations, annual production forecasts, and reserves reports.
- Mentorship: Mentor less experienced engineers and specialists in reservoir modeling, simulation, and integration of reservoir engineering data.
- Collaborative Integration: Collaborate with reservoir and petroleum engineers, petrophysicists, and geoscientists to ensure consistent engineering and geological interpretations.
- Documentation Preparation: Prepare detailed documentation for new drills for internal and Joint Venture (JV) approvals.
If you are driven by technical challenges, eager to make a difference in the energy sector and are looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact on our operations and resource management, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity at Santos.
- A minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience in the E&P business with specific PNG experience strongly preferred.
- Experience in the application of reservoir engineering principles to oil and gas production in clastic reservoirs, with strength in reservoir simulation.
- Extensive experience in the analysis of reservoir, well and facility performance using common industry software including PETREL RE, Eclipse, MBAL, Prosper/GAP, OFM and PVTsim (or equivalent).
- Experience in asset evaluation and integrated asset development planning.
- Experience in coaching and supervision of junior staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that can be applied across disciplines.
- Ability to respond flexibly to the company’s needs and understand the appropriate level of detail for the specific task.
- Reservoir Modelling – Numerical Simulation
- Material Balance and Analytical Techniques
- Fluid Properties and Characterisation
- Well planning & Operations Support (Pressure testing and fluid sampling)
Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.
We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 10th October 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is
https://recruitment.santos.com/
To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.