Our client, a major Oil & Gas company, is looking for an Operations Engineer to work offshore on an initial 12-month contract (with possibility to extension) in Houma, Louisiana.
The Operations Engineer will provide on-platform support to maintain production uptime and optimize operating expense. The engineer will primarily interface with Field Operations, Process Engineering, Production Engineering and Topside Facilities.
Main Responsibilities:
- Perform process surveillance in oil, gas and water treatment systems
- Ensure that export product quality meets pipeline and overboard water specifications
- Identify process improvements that reduce expenses and increase operational efficiency
- Understand and optimize equipment and control systems to minimize process related downtime
- Improve production throughput through debottlenecking identification and mitigation
- Downtime root cause analysis and tracking
- Assist chemical team by tracking, reporting, troubleshooting and optimizing chemical programs
- Perform well production surveillance
- Ensure ramp-up, drawdown and flow assurance guidelines procedures are followed
- Witness and QA/QC 3rd party meter calibration and sample collection
- Assist subsea operations troubleshooting and integrity procedures
- Assist with subsea well tie ins, including subsea hardware commissioning
- Participate in facility and major project hazard reviews
- Interface with platform operations staff on behalf of shore-based engineering disciplines
Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering (Chemical Engineering preferred)
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of oil and gas industry experience required (Offshore Gulf of Mexico experience preferred)
- Ability to read and understand P&IDs, PFDs and equipment data sheets
- Familiar with oil and gas process; including gas-liquid and water-oil separation
- Familiar with oilfield chemistries and their applications
- Understanding of pump, compression and process controls
- Basic knowledge of pressure relief, separator, heat exchanger, and control valve designs to evaluate capacities and identify bottlenecks
- Basic knowledge of corrosion, scaling, emulsion and foaming mechanisms
- Basic knowledge of project management, cost estimation and value-added economic evaluations
- Basic knowledge of root cause analysis techniques
- Good communication, organization, and collaboration skills
- Required travel to an offshore facility in GOM for a 14 days on and 14 days off schedule