Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore Development
Posted date [2026-06-03]
(ID: 45966)
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Founded in 1971, ADNOC is a leading diversified energy group, wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. Our network of fully integrated businesses operates across the energy value chain, helping us to responsibly meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market.
Already in the top tier of the lowest carbon intensity oil and gas producers in the world, we are taking significant steps to make today’s energy cleaner while investing in the clean energies of tomorrow, strengthening our position as a reliable and responsible global energy provider. We are allocating an initial $23 billion to advance and accelerate lower-carbon solutions, investing in new energies and decarbonization technologies to enable our net zero by 2045 ambition and our commitment to zero methane emissions by 2030. ... |
Job Description and Requirements
Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore DevelopmentJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore Development
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Engineering
Experience: 9 years in petroleum engineering
Job Type: Full-time
Job Overview
Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore Development in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is an Oil and Energy engineering role focused on well design concepts, offshore field development, production optimization, integrated production system models, and life-cycle evaluation of wells and facilities. This position is suited for an experienced petroleum engineering professional with strong knowledge of well completions, production testing, re-entry programs, artificial lift, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, reservoir performance analysis, and offshore development planning.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Engineering
Salary: 42000-58000 monthly (Market estimated)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Summary
The Senior Petroleum Engineer - Offshore Development will review and support design concepts for wells and facilities across offshore operating fields, evaluate development options, estimate capital and operating costs, and contribute to integrated production system modelling across the full field life cycle. The role includes assessing proposals for completions, testing, re-entry, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift, corrosion control, scaling inhibition, and other production enhancement methods to support ADNOC Group’s oil and gas production objectives.
Key Responsibilities
* Review design concepts for offshore wells and facilities across field development plans and operating field life-cycle requirements.
* Evaluate well types and configurations including production wells, injection wells, vertical wells, deviated wells, horizontal wells, and multilateral wells.
* Optimize the total number of wells required to meet development concepts while considering tubing, production casing size, artificial lift requirements, re-completion needs, and abandonment planning.
* Provide specialized petroleum engineering input based on subsurface development scenarios.
* Support design optimization for surface facilities by reviewing required capacity, well location, well count, intra-field pipelines, and export pipeline requirements.
* Review studies prepared by ADNOC Group companies, shareholders, and SPC companies related to field development plans, well construction, completion design, well performance, and data gathering programs.
* Evaluate test pressures, flow rates, gas quality, well history, and known reservoir or production conditions to identify improvement opportunities.
* Recommend actions, technologies, and additional studies to optimize field development plans and operational efficiency.
* Review proposals for hydraulic fracturing, special tests, stimulation, completion programs, contractor services, and equipment costs.
* Participate in preparing proposals for well completions, testing, re-entry programs, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift, corrosion inhibition, and scaling inhibition.
* Review well history, verify wellhead and downhole pressures, assess flow rates, and recommend suitable technologies or innovative designs.
* Evaluate contractor services, tools, equipment, and implementation options in coordination with technical and production functions.
* Review production and test data to provide technical feedback on well performance and highlight anomalies for further investigation.
* Evaluate re-entry candidates and remedial options within drilling and rig-less operation sequences.
* Review related well performance and recommend additional tests, specialized sample analysis, short-term solutions, or further technical studies.
* Liaise with offshore assets to review production data acquisition, analyze procedures, and recommend improvements where feasible.
* Coordinate with ADNOC assets to review improved oil recovery technologies, enhancement studies, and field optimization methods.
* Ensure quality of tools, processes, workflows, and studies used in offshore field optimization and Abu Dhabi oil and gas reservoir development.
* Ensure practices and technical solutions comply with ADNOC health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and regulations.
* Support implementation of ADNOC best practice technical standards and codified analytical workflows.
* Provide inputs for weekly development highlights, daily production reports, monthly allocation reports, drilling bar charts, barge schedules, and other management reports.
* Prepare inputs for sub-committee meetings including ARPR, PDISC, and TCM, and attend relevant meetings to provide technical feedback.
* Support recommendations to management and contribute to development of in-house tools and workflow concepts.
* Represent ADNOC in technical meetings with group companies, shareholders, SPC companies, contractors, vendors, universities, academic institutions, and other third parties.
* Review and comment on petroleum engineering projects related to developed oil and gas reservoirs.
* Coordinate information flow, data requirements, investigations, and projects across upstream functions.
* Attend project progress meetings and provide advice within the petroleum engineering area of expertise.
* Follow up on information requests, investigation requests, technical findings, and recommendations with relevant departments and stakeholders.
* Monitor consultant work to ensure timely achievement of project milestones, quality standards, and deliverables.
* Maintain close interaction with multidisciplinary team members to support integrated field development and reservoir optimization.
* Participate in testing and evaluation of commercial petroleum engineering tools and software.
* Recommend software, tools, and technical solutions that meet ADNOC requirements in a cost-effective manner.
* Organize and participate in petroleum engineering discipline meetings to support knowledge transfer across upstream functions and ADNOC assets.
* Promote transfer of technology and industry experience from shareholders and external technical partners.
* Provide hands-on technical coaching to junior and senior staff to strengthen petroleum engineering capability.
* Plan, supervise, and coordinate assigned engineering activities to meet functional objectives.
* Provide input for function and department budgets and support approved budget and work plan implementation.
* Identify budget variances and support performance and cost control.
* Implement approved policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures in line with company and international standards.
* Contribute to department performance objectives under the company performance framework.
* Design and implement tools and techniques to improve operational process quality and engineering efficiency.
* Identify process improvements based on industry best practices and international standards.
* Comply with HSE policies, sustainability guidelines, ADNOC Code of Practices, applicable legislation, and safe working requirements.
* Provide inputs for MIS reports, progress reports, and company management updates.
Required Skills and Experience
* Bachelor Degree in Petroleum Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
* Minimum 9 years of experience in petroleum engineering.
* Strong experience in offshore field development, well design review, production optimization, and reservoir performance analysis.
* Knowledge of production and injection wells, vertical wells, deviated wells, horizontal wells, multilateral wells, completions, re-entry planning, and abandonment requirements.
* Experience reviewing well construction, completion designs, well production performance, injection performance, and data gathering programs.
* Strong understanding of integrated production system models, surface facility requirements, pipeline capacity, well location optimization, and development concept evaluation.
* Practical knowledge of stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift, corrosion inhibition, scaling inhibition, production testing, and special well programs.
* Ability to review test pressures, flow rates, gas quality, downhole pressures, wellhead pressures, production trends, and well history.
* Experience with re-entry candidate evaluation, remedial work options, drilling sequences, and rig-less operation support.
* Knowledge of improved oil recovery, reservoir optimization, petroleum engineering software, and commercial technical tools.
* Ability to work with multidisciplinary upstream teams, offshore assets, contractors, vendors, consultants, shareholders, and ADNOC Group companies.
* Strong interpersonal skills with ability to coach, guide, and develop professionals.
* Strong analytical, communication, reporting, coordination, and technical presentation skills.
* Ability to work in an office environment with occasional exposure to heat, humidity, dust, and offshore or site visit conditions.
What We Offer
* Opportunity to work with ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi’s strategic Oil and Energy sector.
* Exposure to offshore field development, petroleum engineering studies, reservoir optimization, and production enhancement projects.
* Career development in well design, completion strategy, stimulation, artificial lift, improved oil recovery, and integrated production system modelling.
* Collaborative technical environment involving upstream functions, offshore assets, shareholders, contractors, consultants, and technical partners.
* Opportunity to contribute to high-impact oil and gas production objectives using advanced engineering tools and ADNOC technical standards.
* Market estimated salary package aligned with senior petroleum engineering roles in Abu Dhabi’s energy sector.
About the Company
ADNOC Group is a leading UAE energy organization operating across oil, gas, refining, petrochemicals, and low-carbon energy activities. Based in Abu Dhabi, the group supports national energy security and industrial growth through safe operations, technical excellence, innovation, sustainability, and responsible development of major energy assets.
Skills Set
* Petroleum engineering
* Offshore field development
* Well design review
* Well completions
* Production optimization
* Integrated production modelling
* Field development planning
* Production wells
* Injection wells
* Horizontal wells
* Deviated wells
* Multilateral wells
* Artificial lift
* Hydraulic fracturing
* Well stimulation
* Well testing
* Re-entry planning
* Rig-less operations
* Reservoir performance analysis
* Improved oil recovery
* Corrosion inhibition
* Scaling inhibition
* Production data analysis
* Flow rate evaluation
* Downhole pressure analysis
* Wellhead pressure analysis
* Surface facilities planning
* Pipeline capacity assessment
* Capital expenditure estimation
* Operating cost estimation
* Technical reporting
* Management reporting
* Consultant coordination
* Petroleum engineering software
* Technical coaching
* ADNOC technical standards
* HSE compliance
* ADNOC Code of Practices
