- SUNTERA Resources Limited (- Suntera- ) is an innovative private energy company established in 2006 by SUN Group, with an objective to obtain privileged access to discovered oil and gas opportunities in emerging countries, leveraging its unique relationships at the local and regional levels with governments and energy groups.

- It has a highly experienced management team with a proven track record in building energy businesses around the world. Suntera's strategy is to create value for its stakeholders by building a scaleable platform of high quality assets- at key points along the energy chain through the application of its principal competitive advantages: proven operating skills, privileged access and flexible investment structures.

- Currently, Suntera is a majority stakeholder in OML 142, one of the largest blocks in Nigeria, in partnership with Summit Oil International (Nigerian indigenous company) and the National Oil Companies from India. The block has recently entered into its production phase and the short-term plan is to drill out the field to create maximum value for the shareholders and affected communities.

- SUNTERA is Looking for a dynamic and energetic Production Engineer with minimum 5 years- experience. Work location in Nigeria and India (Gurgaon).

Basic Function :

- Plans, supervises and/or carries out a variety of duties relating to rigless operations, testing and stimulation to ensure optimization of oil/gas producing wells, water supply and water/gas injection wells.

- Provides technical support to field operations in the production of hydrocarbons.

Work Performed :

- Prepares programs for work over/completion operations, perforation, kick-off operation, stimulation and well testing to be carried out by service companies.

- Undertakes completion and testing of newly drilled/worked over wells.

- Prepares programs for various well tests such as multi-rate production/injection tests and isochronal/modified isochronal tests.

- Coordinates and supervises testing operations and carries out preliminary interpretation and evaluation of test results.

- Supervises production logging and carries out preliminary log interpretation and evaluation of test results.

- Monitors oil/gas producing and water injection wells performance. Investigates and diagnoses well problems and proposes action requirements. Recommends workover for specific wells giving prognosis of each well and workover justification.

- Coordinates and supervise down hole equipment testing and maintenance.

- Reviews and evaluates water injection clusters performance and discusses the long term injection test with concerned engineers of other Departments.

- Supervises trials of new surface and downhole equipment.

- Monitors and discuss the performance of installed production equipment (Xmas trees, chokes, SC-SSSV's, control panels, SSV's/ actuators).

- Participates in technical studies concerning water/gas injection and artificial lift projects, oil and gas operations, facilities optimization or modification, as assigned.

- Maintains comprehensive database on well history, oil/gas production, water production/ injection and gas injection statistics.

- Follows up on contractor service performance and adherence to safe work practices.

- Participates in the development of operating, reporting and recording procedures for oil, gas and water production/injection performance.

- Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

- Participates in the preparation of the department budget as applicable to production engineering.

- Act as focal point for production Engineering related contracts (e.g. Rigless, wireline, well test & redressing), where fields requirements and to be prepared and contract pre-qualification is conducted.

- Knows the Company health, safety and environmental policy, procedures, regulations and objectives as they relate to his area of responsibility, and ensures that they are effectively implemented in his domain.

Minimum Requirements : 5 years Petroleum Engineering including workover, completion, well testing and production operations.

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