Senior Specialist - Production Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Degree in Petroleum Engineering, or a related engineering degree with substantial petroleum production engineering experience. Typically 12 or more years of relevant experience, including recent hands
- Deep ESP engineering expertise demonstrated through selection, diagnosis, optimisation and operational troubleshooting. Substantive gas-lift operating or optimisation experience is also required, with
- Strong well-performance and nodal-analysis capability, including fluid properties, multiphase flow, inflow and outflow relationships and the interaction between reservoir deliverability and artificial
- Delivery of digital well surveillance, remote optimisation or automation workflows into routine field use. Experience defining operational requirements and validating solutions with software, analytic
- Practical understanding of Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) results and their limitations. Ability to apply changes in reservoir pressure, productivity and skin to lift decisions, with specialist int
- Hands-on use of PROSPER, PIPESIM, DesignRite or equivalent well and lift engineering tools. Ability to work with historian or SCADA data, well tests, equipment records and operating-event histories.
- Experience defining safe operating envelopes and participating in operational change reviews. Clear understanding of supervisory optimisation, regulatory control and independent safety protection, and
- Evidence of field improvements supported by data, technical leadership and effective collaboration with operators. Professional English communication and the ability to write requirements that enginee
Nice to have
- Supervised closed-loop deployments, advanced process control, model predictive control, edge applications or integration between production software and control-room systems.
- Physics-based or hybrid AI models, virtual flow metering, equipment reliability analysis, automated diagnostic workflows, or Python/SQL for engineering analysis.
- Offshore and Middle East operations, intelligent completions or downhole gas-lift valves. Experience with other lift methods is useful as the product expands.
Full description
About the Company:
AIQ is an Abu Dhabi-based technology company that develops and deploys industrial artificial intelligence (AI) technologies at scale, focused on the energy sector. As a venture between Presight (G42) and ADNOC, AIQ has productized 15 AI-enabled solutions that support clients to perform better, protect teams and equipment, keep operations sustainable, and rapidly scale successes. The organization embraces an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, looking to push boundaries and solve transformational challenges across industry. It welcomes professionals that share the desire to make meaningful and impactful contributions to the mission to deliver responsible AI to the heart of industrial processes. Always on the forefront of technology, AIQ provides its talent with an environment to thrive and excel. Working at AIQ includes participating in some of the most significant industrial transformation projects, interacting with massive data pools, utilizing sophisticated AI infrastructure that is powered by a NVIDIA GPU cloud computing platform, and access to abundant computing, storage, and network resources made available from across the G42 ecosystem.
Overview:Job Title: Senior Specialist - Production Engineer (Petroleum SME)
Artificial Lift and Autonomous Well Operations
AIQ Production Domain | Principal individual contributor
Location: Abu Dhabi | Reports to: Christophe Van Laer
About the Company:
AIQ is an Abu Dhabi-based technology company that develops and deploys industrial artificial intelligence (AI) technologies at scale, focused on the energy sector. As a venture between Presight (G42) and ADNOC, AIQ has productized 15 AI-enabled solutions that support clients to perform better, protect teams and equipment, keep operations sustainable, and rapidly scale successes. The organization embraces an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, looking to push boundaries and solve transformational challenges across industry. It welcomes professionals that share the desire to make meaningful and impactful contributions to the mission to deliver responsible AI to the heart of industrial processes. Always on the forefront of technology, AIQ provides its talent with an environment to thrive and excel. Working at AIQ includes participating in some of the most significant industrial transformation projects, interacting with massive data pools, utilizing sophisticated AI infrastructure that is powered by a NVIDIA GPU cloud computing platform, and access to abundant computing, storage, and network resources made available from across the G42 ecosystem.
The role
AIQ is building software and AI products for well surveillance, artificial-lift optimisation and autonomous production. We are seeking a petroleum production engineer who has improved the performance of real wells and can translate that experience into reliable digital products. You will provide the engineering leadership for electric submersible pump (ESP), gas-lift and naturally flowing well workflows, working with software engineers, AI scientists and controls specialists to progress from diagnosis and recommendations to validated closed-loop operation.