Entity:

Production & Operations:

Job Family Group:

Subsurface Group

Job Description:

Role Synopsis

The central Western Hemisphere Pore Pressure and Geomechanics team located in Houston is looking for a professional specialist to join the Western Hemisphere central PPFG/Geomechanics team in Rio de Janeiro.

The successful candidate will and support well planning and execution for in Brazil, as well as work with the broader team supporting all of the Western Hemisphere. This team supports all of the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad, and Western Hemisphere exploration. (including Brazil and Canada) producing assets and exploration activities offshore.

In addition, the team is becoming increasingly involved in appraisal and development work for Carbon Collection Utilization and Storage (CCUS) in the US. We work closely with our subsurface and wells teams both in the Western Hemisphere as well as globally to safely and optimally deliver wells for bp.

The Specialist is an integral member of the cross-disciplinary well delivery teams and provides support for well planning and execution by developing geologically sound and compliant pore and fracture pressure forecasts and wellbore stability models. Is involved in all aspects of well planning from early concept, through detailed well planning, execution and post well analysis. During implement the specialist also collaborates with the Real Time Collaboration Operations Center on pressure detection efforts and with subsurface, drilling, and completions to incorporate pore pressure and wellbore stability takeaways and understanding to safely and successfully implement the wells.

Primary Accountabilities

• Pore Pressure and Fracture Pressure Forecasting:
• Is encouraged to integrate multiple types of indicators and observations in a geologic context to generate a pre-drill pore pressure and fracture gradient (PPFG) forecast. This may include: pressure from seismic velocities, offset well data such as measured pressures, connection gases, log derived pressures in shale, and basin models for building the pore pressure model and log data, drilling events/data, mini-frac/leakoff test data, lost circulation events, impact of reservoir depletion and lithology variations to constrain fracture gradient and minimum stress.
• Then will integrate their work with others on the multi-disciplinary well planning team to optimize the pattern on the selection of drilling fluid type/weight, casing string compose, setting depths, potential geo-hazards and mitigation techniques. They will also be able to communicate the technical work as well as the risks and mitigations to a wide range of partners, ranging from the drilling team, the Operations team supervising the well, leadership as well as co-owners and governmental regulators.
• Operational Support for Pore Pressure Detection as required for sophisticated development or exploration wells in collaboration with the remote collaboration center; including real-time model calibration, kick analysis, gas and breathing analysis and losses investigations as well as interpretation of formation integrity tests. Also, will be responsible for communicating the updated PPFG model and forecast going forward to the operations team and to recommend potential changes to mudweight or drilling strategy and potential locations for pressure points.
• Drillability Assessment: work closely with wells to develop wellbore strengthening model and implementation plan for drilling through depleted reservoirs.
• Wellbore stability analysis: Developing wellbore stability models as the basis for providing minimum mud weight recommendations for drilling and completing wells. There will be an emphasis on analysis and integration of data from multiple sources e.g. log data, drilling data, cavings analysis, image and caliper log analysis etc.
• Operational assessment: contribute to Reservoir Design and Operating Limits, broaching analyses, zonal isolation assessment, alternate well design, abandonment deviation/risk assessments. Participate in risk assessments to represent the PPFG, zonal isolation and broaching risks.
• Participation in subsurface related non-productive time (NPT) analyses and investigations.
• Support development and implementation of a best-in-class PPFG and Geomechanics toolkit.
• Represent BP externally as required at industry meetings and JIPs etc.
• Mentor for less experienced team members

Education

Engineering, Science, Geoscience, Geomechanics or Mathematics

Crucial Criteria

• Vast experience in relevant oilfield (drilling PPFG/geomechanics) with operator or service company.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complicated technical work to a variety of interested parties.
• Ability to work with cross-disciplinary teams and going for priorities to deliver ambitious wells.
• The candidate must be familiar with PPFG, geomechanics, drilling and subsurface aspects of Well Planning and Execution.

Desirable Qualifications

• Previous PPFG experience with an operator, ideally planning and performing Brazil pre-salt wells; previous geomechanics experience such as wellbore stability and formation pressure integrity tests, strong geology and geophysics background and experience with well planning.
• Experience generating pre-drill PPFG forecasts for offshore wells in both development and exploration settings.
• Awareness of Geology, Petrophysics, Basin Modelling, Processing Geophysics, Reservoir Geomechanics, Drilling Engineering, Rig Systems, and Well Control.
• Software proficiency and coding capability (e.g., VBA, Python, Techlog and Petrel).

Why join us At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

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Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Basin resource evaluation, Basin resource evaluation, CO2 utilisation and storage, Core acquisition and analysis, Cost-conscious decision-making, Data acquisition strategy, Data Management, Depositional framework, Fluid Properties, Fluid sampling and analysis, Geodesy and coordinate integrity, Geohazard Assessment, Geomechanical analysis, Integrated Well Delivery, Operations Geology, Petroleum Systems Analysis, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Petrophysical Seismic Lithology and Fluid Prediction, Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description, PPFG detection, Research and Development, Reservoir geomechanics, Reservoir quality, Seismic Interpretation, Seismic stratigraphic interpretation {+ 6 more}

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