Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Under general supervision from the Production Manager,
The Production Supervisor works in a multi-discipline Asset Operations Team to develop potentially large and challenging unconventional plays and mature oil and gas fields.
Identifies innovative ways to apply HAL technology, service capability and expertise within the context of understanding the reservoir, production and facilities to design new, step-change field exploitation methodologies.
Integral member of the multi-discipline Production Team comprised of a reservoir engineer, production geologist and field personnel team.
Analyzes production history, well files, production equipment and decline curve analysis and nodal analysis of well performance to estimate remaining recoverable reserves, production and cost of upgrading equipment.
Selects and implements production technology, service capability and expertise including completion systems comprised of tubing selection, perforating, sand control and fine migration, matrix stimulation, water control and hydraulic fracturing; artificial lift equipment comprised of sucker-rod lift, gas lift, electrical submersible pumps, subsurface hydraulic pumps, progressing-cavity pumps and plunger lift; real-time surveillance and monitoring systems and waterflooding and other enhanced recovery techniques.
Uses decline curve analysis and nodal analysis to identify workovers or recompletions candidates and to select and upgrade production equipment.
Focuses on maintaining and increasing daily production through optimizing well performance and field operations while controlling operating costs.
Performs daily field operations including optimizing well behavior, production, water disposal, chemical injection and treatment, waterflood performance and artificial lift systems.
Evaluates proposed modifications to equipment or to operating procedures to improve safety, efficiency and reliability of equipment and ensures all modifications meet statutory and Company standards.
Develops and maintains good working relationships with Production Team through effective communication and teamwork.

Desired Candidate Profile

Requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with geologists, engineers, contractors and asset teams to successfully execute projects from concept to operation; over time, incumbent will become very knowledgeable of HAL technologies and solutions experience together with the exploitation methodologies and technologies that other companies apply.
Requires an undergraduate degree and a minimum of eight (8) years of industry experience. Degree in geology or engineering is preferred.