Petroleum Engineer - Rigless Operations

Petroleum Engineer
- Rigless Operations Job Snapshot

Role:
Petroleum Engineer
- Rigless Operations

Location:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Oil and Energy

Function:
Oil Rig & Pipeline Install-Maintain-Repair

Experience:

8 years in petroleum engineering, workover, completion, well testing, and production operations

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details Country:
United Arab Emirates City:
Abu Dhabi Industry: Oil and Energy Function:
Oil Rig & Pipeline Install-Maintain-Repair Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time

Petroleum Engineer
- Rigless Operations in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is an Oil and Energy opportunity for an experienced well operations professional with strong exposure to rigless activities, well testing, stimulation, wireline operations, workover recommendations, production logging, and oil and gas production optimization. The role supports safe and efficient hydrocarbon production by improving well performance, evaluating injection systems, supervising service company operations, and providing technical support to field operations.

The Petroleum Engineer
- Rigless Operations will plan, supervise, and support rigless well activities across producing wells, water supply wells, water injection wells, and gas injection wells. The position contributes to production reliability, reservoir performance understanding, and field optimization by preparing operational programs, monitoring well behavior, evaluating test results, maintaining well history data, and recommending practical actions to improve oil, gas, water, and injection performance.

• Prepare technical programs for rigless operations, perforation, kick-off operations, stimulation, and well testing activities.
• Coordinate with service companies to ensure rigless programs are executed safely, efficiently, and in line with approved procedures.
• Prepare programs for multi-rate production tests, injection tests, isochronal tests, and modified isochronal tests.
• Supervise well testing operations and carry out preliminary interpretation and evaluation of test results.
• Follow up and supervise wireline operations performed by contractors.
• Verify wireline reports and forward findings to asset development teams for further review and action.
• Supervise production logging activities and complete preliminary log interpretation.
• Evaluate production logging and well test results to identify performance trends, anomalies, and improvement needs.
• Monitor oil and gas producing wells, water supply wells, water injection wells, and gas injection wells.
• Investigate and diagnose well performance issues and propose suitable corrective actions.
• Recommend workover requirements for specific wells with clear prognosis, technical justification, and production improvement rationale.
• Coordinate and supervise downhole equipment testing, inspection, and maintenance activities.
• Review water injection cluster performance and discuss long-term injection test outcomes with concerned engineering teams.
• Monitor and review performance of installed production equipment.
• Participate in technical studies related to water injection, gas injection, artificial lift, oil operations, gas operations, and facilities optimization.
• Support studies for facility modification, production improvement, and well performance enhancement when assigned.
• Maintain a comprehensive database covering well history, oil production, gas production, water production, water injection, and gas injection statistics.
• Participate in developing operating, reporting, and recording procedures for oil, gas, and water production or injection performance.
• Provide technical support to field operations for hydrocarbon production and efficient use of water and gas injection systems.
• Work with operations, asset development, reservoir, production, and service company teams to improve well performance and operational reliability.
• Ensure all activities are carried out in line with company HSE standards, operational procedures, and safe field practices.
• Prepare technical inputs, well performance updates, and operational observations for management and engineering review.

• Bachelor Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of petroleum engineering experience.
• Strong background in workover,…