About this role
The role is for a Fluids Advisor III at Nautilus Nigeria Engineering and Construction Limited in Lagos. It involves providing technical and operations support for drilling and completion fluids design and management, as well as solids control and waste management for drilling and completions. The position also serves as a technical resource for auditing vendor processes and facilities, and contributes to cementing planning and surveillance. The employer offers engineering and project support services to the oil and gas industry, including front end design, detailed design, QA/QC, and environmental services.
What you would do
- Oversee accurate and safe additions of materials to the fluid system and ensure proper labelling and accessible data sheets.
- Maintain and verify that all fluid solids control equipment is functioning and optimised for current operations.
- Forecast future fluid material and equipment spare needs and provide quantities if required.
- Manage daily inventory of materials, equipment spares and tank usage at the location.
- Utilise available storage space effectively to meet well requirements and optimise fluid inventory and costs.
- Provide thorough daily fluid reports with recommended actions to the location supervisor representative.
- Collaborate with Drilling Engineers to plan future wells, including writing cementing programmes and surveillance of active operations.
- Oversee the performance of the cementing vendor and troubleshoot cementing operations.
- Track and close out non-conformance reports related to cementing operations.
- Supervise lab testing of cement slurries and ensure quality control.
What they are asking for
- B.S. degree in engineering or a related technical field (preferred).
- Experience in fluids, solids control and waste management.
- Experience in international assignments.
- Experience in deep water drilling operations (1000m) if the role includes deep water drilling engineering work.
- Experience with water based and non-aqueous drilling fluids and various completion fluids.
- Experience with solids control equipment and waste management.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Proficiency in computer usage and Microsoft applications.
- Fluent reading, writing and speaking of English.
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