Drilling engineer - Wells

Drilling engineers are a part of the wells discipline and bp's global wells organization (GWO). GWO is an operating function whose goal is to deliver safe, compliant, and reliable wells. In GWO, drilling engineers take part in engineering activity covering the planning, programme preparation, and execution of drilling operations within the wells team. As a drilling engineer, you are involved in designing, planning and programming of drilling activities. During construction of the well, you are responsible for supporting rig operations and ensuring the well is built safely and within budget. Drilling engineers support rig operations to get to the target zone and design the well to withstand conditions that may be experienced when the well is put on production or injection. There are many types of well programmes including exploration wells, appraising existing prospects and production wells in established acreage. Much of your first year as a drilling engineer may be spent at a rig site, learning the fundamentals of operations. Here you will provide technical support to the rig site team in addition to developing your knowledge of drilling, completions, and interventions operations in bp's GWO. Typically, your second year will be office-based, conducting detailed planning and design work with regular field trips. As a base for all of this, you must have a strong academic record in an engineering subject. This must be matched by your willingness to learn and to undertake shift work onshore or offshore, in interesting and challenging environments. As part of this role you are required to work in a diverse, multi-disciplined team that involves geologists, reservoir engineers, completions engineers, equipment service company representatives, and production operations teams to ensure that the well plan satisfies all company objectives. As you continue to develop in this technical role, you will be guided by the structured path, or roadmap, which is part of early to mid-career development for drilling engineers. This roadmap outlines on-the-job experiences, resources and formal training to help you develop and rapidly build professional depth in order to reach the technical standards required for senior drilling engineer status. As a drilling engineer, you could: Participate in the preparation of drilling programmes. Prepare cost and time estimates for drilling operations. Ensure equipment is available for prompt delivery to the rig. Prepare drilling engineering modelling as required to support planning and ongoing drilling operations. Collect and analyze data to assist in optimizing rig-site drilling activities and future well programmes, such as torque and drag, and hole cleaning. Perform calculations such as hydraulics, leak off tests, casing/tubing tallies, cement volumes, etc. Promote teamwork attitude between bp and third parties engaged in well delivery. Ensure the construction of the well to bp and regulatory requirements. Participate in all safety and environmental related activity within the team. Visit service company yards to observe equipment tests, make up equipment, and learn.

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