Job Description

The Process/Flow Assurance Engineer is responsible for the design of oil and gas production facilities and transport systems and assessment of their operability ensuring the continuity of production operations through the elaboration of strategies to prevent, mitigate, and remediate vulnerabilities in the production system associated with gas hydrate formation, wax deposition, asphaltene deposition, erosion, corrosion, and slugging.

Responsabilities:

· Conduct technical studies during the life cycle of projects to assess system operability, including Fluid characterization using a thermodynamic simulator to model the PVT behavior of produced fluids.
· Develop and quality assure process simulations models (typically by use of HYSYS)
· Perform heat and mass balance analysis for the KAN Development Projecyt
· Provide process engineering expertise input into the KAN Development Project,
· Ensuring quality of process engineering deliverables.
· Perform hydraulic simulations, in in both, single-phase and multiphase flow to size production and injection pipeline systems.
· Perform transient multiphase fluid modeling to assess thermal and hydraulic transients during production rate changes, turndown, startup, shutdown, and blow-down; including flow line and riser slugging, cool-down, and warm-up.
· Use of modeling and/or laboratory analysis to predict solid formation, deposition, bedding and/or blockage behavior for hydrates, sand, wax, scale, asphaltenes, and other solids.
· Assessment of erosion and/or corrosion to guide proper material selection, conducted in collaboration with Materials Engineers.
· Provide support to the license Technical Committee (TC), required partners interaction, presentations, and reporting of project status.
· Participate in the preparation of concept design.
· Provide input in the preparation of the Basis of Design.
· Participate in the Stage Gate Process deliverables preparation.
· Contribute to project risk workshops. Identify and follow up relevant risks and mitigating actions.
· Align with Subsurface, Operations, HSE, Drilling & Wells, Regulatory Coordinator and Commercial disciplines for proactive contribution to project success (delivery according to the Field Development Plan).

Requirements:

Education

– University degree or master’s degree in relevant oil and gas subject

Professional Experience

– Minimum 15 years’ experience in production systems design/flow assurance assessment
– At least 10 years working in field development multidisciplinary groups.

Technical Skills

– Proficient in flow assurance software (Pipesim or similar, LedaFlow or similar).
– Proficient skills in fluid modelling (PVTSim, or similar).
– Proficient skills in process simulation (Hysys, or similar).
– Good knowledge of international standards/ best practices and local regulation regarding process safety and process design.

Mandatory: Fluent in English (oral and written)

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