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Senior Reservoir Engineer

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Reference ID R173371 Updated 06/04/2025
Petroleum Engineering
Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
N/A

What’s the role

The Senior Reservoir Engineer will be responsible for providing reservoir and petroleum engineering expertise in the areas of production monitoring, forecasting, reservoir management, well and field development planning activities. The candidate is expected to also be able to provide reservoir engineering functional leadership within the team

What you’ll be doing

RESERVOIR ENGINEERING DISICPLINE

  • Lead reservoir engineer for Development Projects, leading the building, history matching and uncertainty analysis of simulation models

  • Production forecasting in support of project stage gates, business planning and reserves estimations

  • In-depth analysis of all available static and dynamic data including benchmarking with regional analogue data

  • Test multiple development scenarios and perform sensitivities on well count, well type, and phasing

  • Conduct simulation sensitivity analysis and IPSM modelling

  • Lead delivery of Field development and WRFM Plans

  • Coach, mentor and develop the skills of junior RE colleagues to help improve technical competence levels and performance

WELLS, RESERVOIR and FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (WRFM)

  • Lead all WRFM activities and coordinate WRFM practice table reviews (e.g. Daily Production Review, Production System Optimization, Annual Well, Reservoir and Facility Reviews)

  • Coordinate with subsurface disciplines, process engineers, production support engineer, subsea engineer, commercial and surveillance allocation analyst to ensure delivery of WRFM plans.

  • Coach and support other WRFM leads/practitioners in the asset

  • Support safe delivery of production targets through active WRFM

  • Drive opportunity maturation process from identification to execution of initiatives. Ensure the WRFM activities are executed safely and efficiently.

  • Deliver monthly production plan and quarterly production forecast

  • Drive WRFM continuous improvement areas (e.g. well testing, allocation, surveillance)

BUSINESS PLANNING

  • Support efficient and high-quality delivery of business production forecasts & hydrocarbon maturation updates

  • Provide and defend inputs in challenge sessions and robustness reviews and support / review required planning documentation (e.g. note for file, presentations)

  • Perform reserves estimation and classification in compliance with industry standards such as SPE-PRMS or SEC guidelines. Ability to defend position to both internal and external auditors.

What you bring

  • Must have legal authorization to work in Trinidad & Tobago on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

  • University degree in Petroleum Engineering or equivalent

  • Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience in the oil and gas industry

  • Proven competence as a Studies Reservoir Engineer, with the ability to quickly assume a technical assurer role

  • Strong reservoir modeling and simulation experience

  • Proficient in Reservoir Engineering software such as Petrel, PVTi, Saphir, and IPM

  • Skilled in workflows including PVT, SCAL, reserves estimation, decline analysis, nodal analysis, production optimization, forecasting, and integrated modeling

  • Significant expertise in Well Reservoir Facility Management (WRFM)

  • Solid understanding of related disciplines such as geology, geophysics, drilling, facilities, and economics, with a proven ability to lead in multidisciplinary environments

  • Experience with Petrel/Eclipse and Petex IPM is a strong advantage

  • High achiever with strong relationship-building skills

  • Clear communicator of technical recommendations

  • Self-starter with innovation, resilience, and follow-through

  • Experienced coach and team/project leader

  • Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills

  • Motivates others toward continuous improvement

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

  • Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

  • Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

  • Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

  • Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

  • Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

  • Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

  • Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

  • Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

  • Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

  • Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

  • Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in Trinidad & Tobago

Shell has been in Trinidad & Tobago for over 100 years and has played a major role in the development of the country’s hydrocarbon industry. At its pinnacle in the 1960s, Shell was said to be the largest private sector employer in the country, with a refinery at Point Fortin, the current location of the Atlantic LNG facility and a retail presence. Through more than 100 years of unbroken partnership, we have helped to unlock the country’s oil and gas potential, to the benefit of both the government and people. We value this long-term relationship, which is built on the principles of mutual respect and collaboration, as well as a stable political and commercial environment, all of which continues to foster an attractive investment climate.

Currently, Shell delivers an integrated gas operation to supply the petrochemical market and Atlantic LNG and is present in both offshore and onshore blocks (both operated and non-operated). We also have an equity in the Atlantic LNG plant in each of the four trains at the Point Fortin facility.

Our key pillars of economic diversification and livelihood development guide our engagement within the communities in which we operate, as well as at a national level.