Subsurface Digital

Industry: Oil & Gas
City/Country: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Location: Abu Dhabi

Resource requirements:

Scope of Work and Deliverables
- Support COMPANY Subsurface Digital & AI Technology projects, taking into consideration industry leaders in the domain. Prioritize technologies based on maturity, fast implementation and value creation.
- Propose/Define upstream digital transformation initiatives to enhance reservoir and well performance, through automated efficient processes and constraints management
- Oversee the implementation of ongoing digital solutions to create value from data, including data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning and big data, including Autonomous Well Control, Data-driven Reservoir Modelling for Production Injection Optimization and Well Portfolio Optimization
- Ability to lead and contribute to development of advanced AI and Digital solutions through scripting and process management across various internal and external stakeholders
- Define interfaces, understand the challenges and provide solutions to better align key interrelated areas: people, automated workflows, processes and technologies.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement, through design and implementation of new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of existing workflows and operational processes.
- Review and oversee added-value and lessons learned from internal and outside use cases
- Train and develop COMPANY staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Experience and Skillset
- Subject Matter Expert in Subsurface AI & Digitalization Domain, through demonstration of relevant solutions development with data/system architecture and processes similar to COMPANY.
- Hands-on experience in statistical and data mining techniques such as Regression Simulation, Scenario Analysis, Clustering, Decision Trees, Neural Networks, Random Forest, Text Mining, etc.
- Experience (10+ years) in programming languages such as R, Python, MATLAB, VBA etc.
- Experience in POSC/PPDM, PRODML, WITSML and OLE/ODBC
- Experience (10+ years) in AI & Digitalization projects management and development of requirements including internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience (10+ years) in creating standardized enterprise level solutions that are scalable, upgradeable and extensible
- Experience (10+ years) in modelling of the entire production system (Reservoir, wells, surface Network and Process) coupled with knowledge of industry standard enterprise solutions (data management, visualization, etc.)
- Experience (10+ years) in exploiting real time data coupled with physical and data driven models to manage oil and gas fields to increase asset value
- Experience (10+ years) in working knowledge of Petroleum Engineering software such as Pipesim, Prosper, Wellflo, etc.
- Experience(10+ years) in working in a team, with a track record of convincing/guiding stakeholders to the most sustainable approaches, practiced management of change, familiar with continuous process improvements methods, implemented quality management frameworks, etc.
- Worked on at least 10+ major upstream digital projects.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with COMPANY engineers
- Work independently and suggest innovative ideas to improve and enhance the solution.