Drilling / Well Intervention Subsea Advisor III (Engineering) Job at ABNL Limited

ABNL Limited was incorporated in 1992 as an Oil and Gas servicing company with a vision to provide professional engineering and technical services to the Oil and Gas exploration and production companies in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. Since its incorporation, the company has grown in leaps and bounds, expanding its business horizon, but still within the Oil and Gas sector.


ABNL is a 100% owned indigenous firm, with a shareholding in excess of 100 million Naira. Its' directors are individuals of proven integrity, who over the years have acquired the requisite experience in the Oil and Gas business, as well as in the banking and finance sector. The integrity of the directors and the staff of the company have been a priceless contributive factor in the growth and wellbeing of the company.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Drilling / Well Intervention Subsea Advisor III - Engineering

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Site: Onshore
Work Schedule: Standard - 5 days on / 2 day off

Main Functions

  • Comment and provide advice on discipline engineering work performed both internally and by Contractors and sub-contractors to ensure that work is being executed in accordance with Company specifications, company standards, and regulatory requirements.
  • Facilitates effective execution of discipline engineering and design routines that align with the team's goals, objectives, and procedures.
  • Assures accurate and timely communication among the team and other company Functions on discipline engineering activities, progress, and issues.
  • In addition to technical ability, they should demonstrate sound communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Company representative for interfacing with subsea tree, hangers, and wellhead interfacing and subsea pressure control equipment (e.g., subsea BOPs, SSTT, CWOR, LWI) for subsea drilling, completion, and/or well interventions during planning and execution phases.
  • Lead in coordinating surface integrity tests (SITs), witnessing any recertification, factory acceptance and extended factory acceptance testing (FAT / EFAT).
  • Coordinating subsea equipment & ROV aspects of drilling, completions, and/or well intervention risk assessments
  • Prepare brownfield survey and subsea equipment (e.g., trees, hangers, wellheads, subsea BOPs, SSTT / landing strings, CWOR, LWI) deployment and retrieval procedures, ROV tooling and related procedures.
  • Monitor subsea equipment service provider, ROV service provider, provide project management support and troubleshooting of subsea pressure control equipment issues

Skills and Qualifications

  • Candidates should possess Bachelor's / Master's Degrees with 10 - 31 years of relevant work experience.
  • Previous experience in a closely related position
  • Extensive knowledge of In-depth understanding of subsea completion, workover and light well intervention units (e.g. semi submersibles, jack ups and multipurpose vessels)
  • Develops / manages project interfaces (e.g. subsea simultaneous drilling and production procedures, interfaces with other subsea systems)
  • Very strong demonstrated organizational and technical judgment skills
  • Demonstrated teamwork and communication skills
  • Demonstrated skills to positively influence drilling workforce - employees and contractors
  • Exceptional skills in MS Office suite of software programs; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
  • Keeps abreast of subsea completions and workover techniques and technology progress within EM and industry, applies emerging technology and practices where appropriate and can use Tech Set applications effectively
  • Experienced in the areas of subsea system hydraulic modeling, well surveillance, well testing operations, multiphase metering, subsea production / artificial lift optimization (e.g. subsea booster pumps, gas lift and riser lift) and flow assurance
  • Read, write, and speak fluent English, especially as it applies to technical/business communications
  • Ability to work and communicate in international locales and with diverse cultures
  • Relevant industry experience (offshore / onshore drilling activities, for example).
  • Maintains a high degree of ethical conduct.
  • Ability to work in harsh environments (examples include temperature and / or humidity extremes, remote locations with limited amenities) with changing priorities.
  • Willingness to travel / live away from home for extended time periods.

Additional Comments for suppliers:

  • Highly experienced in wellwork, workovers and well interventions.

Additional Skills in Addition to Job Description:

  • Proficient in applications for well design, performance prediction & optimization, BHA and torque & drag modelling.
  • Proffer robust solutions to planning and execution challenges, experienced in recovery from unplanned operational challenges.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: jobs@abnl.net using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.

Note: Submitted Resume MUST be in MS Word format. Any submitted Resume that is not in MS Word format would not be considered.