Safety Engineering Technical Authority

Leading European Oil Company urgently seeks a highly skilled Senior Safety Engineering professional to establish a Technical Safety Department for this company's Copenhagen office. This company is rapidly expanding across Europe and has sizeable projects in the Danish, UK and Norwegian North Sea. The company has identified a specific requirement to develop technical safety as a functional department and require a high calibre individual to develop from the ground up and roll out this department for the company.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide advice, support and expertise on technical safety engineering, across different operating assets, engineering disciplines and projects.


• Interface closely with loss prevention and environmental disciplines.


• Participate in incident investigations and audits.


• Develop the understanding of technical safety and process safety methodology.


• Develop technical safety processes and procedures, practises and standards for the company's management system.


• Be responsible for reviews of technical safety related deliverables from contractors & consultants, including technical tender evaluations.


• Provide advice at basis of design and initial capital project development phases for all projects.


• Assist and participate at all project decision gates and technical reviews, to ensure the company's technical tender evaluations.


• Facilitate/Chair/Audit technical safety reviews, using structured HAZOP's, HAZID's, SIL Assessments and PSSR's.


• Be responsible for developing and maintaining asset safety cases, performance standards and SCE's.


• Initiate and review hazard and effect modelling using the bowtie methodology.


• Initiate and review QRA analyses.


• Participate in value improvement practices to ensure that technology and associated costs meet project objectives.


• Ensure technical and reporting requirements are implemented and updated.


• Attend conferences for knowledge sharing, networking and continuous development.

Ideal candidates will be educated to at least degree level and preferably hold a chartered engineer status. They should have demonstrable experience leading a HSE function through process safety and technical safety engineering experience in offshore oil and gas projects designed to North Sea/Norsok design codes and standards. They should have a broad knowledge of the relevant codes, standards and industrial practices in the North Sea. They should be qualified in facilitating HAZOP's, HAZID's, SIL's and PSSR's.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape a new department within a key player in the oil industry. In return for your services you should expect a highly competitive base salary and excellent benefits scheme including amongst other things housing.

For further information please apply online.

Safety Engineer - Oil Company

Leading European Oil Company urgently seek a highly motivated safety engineer to join their offshore technology department. This company have and continue to grow rapidly and as a result of this the company are establishing a new safety department. The company are currently in the process of hiring the entire team and as part of this search the company seek a motivated individual that can grow in stature as the position requires.

Successful candidates will join the team as a safety engineer and provide support on technical safety engineering across different different operating assets, engineering disciplines and projects. Candidates will need to be a dynamic individual as the role will constantly develop throughout the first year as the Director develops the department and established the core processes and controls that will define team.

Ideal candidates will be degree educated and have some experience working in the oil industry for either an oil company or oil services firm within the safety arena. They will ideally have some experience in process safety and technical safety engineering and have some exposure to HAZOP's, HAZID's, SIL's and PSSR's.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a leading European oil company and grow in what will be a dynamic fun environment. Candidates will have excellent opportunities to develop their career in a highly visible department and gain extra responsibilities as they prove their calibre within the team.

For further information please contact Burns Carlton's specialist Oil and Gas team.

Principle Production Technologist

Leading European Oil Company urgently seeks a highly skilled principle production technologist to join their Stavanger based business. This company are part of a large energy group and have been aggressively growing their E&P business to become one of the key players in the North Sea region. Over the last two years they have hired more than 150 staff and are now looking to add highly skilled senior members to their team.

You will join the Production Technology team which provides a specialist subsurface technical consultancy service in support of the group's E&P activities for the company's portfolio of assets. These assets are in different stages of development from pre-development to late life production. Your role will be as principle production technologist for the Norway office and cover operated and non-operated assets for both development and producing assets. As a principle member of the team you will also take responsibility for mentoring the junior members of the team and coaching them as their career develops.

Key tasks will include:

• Participate in and contribute with production technology tasks during field development planning.


• Ensure relevant operational procedures are in place for production start-up and follow-up.


• Ensure measures concerning well integrity are met and necessary action taken.


• Participate in well design.


• Identify, monitor and diagnose production issues.


• Conduct relevant studies to improve for increasing oil production and better understanding of reservoir.


• Recommend any measure that will improve production or operate our wells in a more cost efficient way.


• Review well performance and plan/execute relevant well interventions.


• Monitor the development of new and evolving technology and investigate its relevance and applicability with the aim of its implementation within the various assets.


• Act as the focal point problems to specific to production technology advising on resolution or seeking outside support.


• Maintain links to software vendors to ensure latest software developments are implemented.

Ideal candidates will have proven experience working with an operating company on offshore development projects. Whilst acting as a principle and mentor to junior staff candidates will also have strong hands on technical skills and be capable of solving complex projects when others fail. They should have an engineering degree in a relative discipline and have strong English written and spoken language skills.

In return for your services you will receive a competitive base salary and excellent benefits scheme covering housing amongst other benefits for staff relocating from outside of Norway.

For further information please apply online.

Principle Reservoir Engineer - Houston

Leading Energy Services Group urgently seeks a highly skilled principle reservoir engineer to join their Houston based consultancy. This company offer a range of consulting services across the energy industry but have built a first class reputation in the oil and gas space. Due to the continued growth of the business the company seek a skilled reservoir engineer to cover the North and Latin America region.

Successful candidates will be assigned several projects at once and work with a multi-discipline team to deliver the work on time and to the high standards that the company is famous for. Candidates will typically be responsible for integrated reservoir studies covering reserves determination, production forecasting, well performance analysis, risk analysis and economics.

Ideal candidates will have the following experience:

• Broad based proven experience in reserves determination, production forecasting, well performance analysis, risk analysis and economics.


• Knowledge of SEC and SPE PRMS reserves definitions.


• Project management experience related to integrated reservoir studies.


• Experience in the preparation of reserves reports and auditing of reserves.


• Knowledge of various well test and system analysis software such as MBal, Prosper and OFM. Knowledge of other economics software's such as PHDWin and Aires also an advantage.


• Reservoir simulation experience and knowledge of eclipse and related packages desirable.


• International experience gained in Latin America is a distinct advantage as are Spanish language skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leading organisation with covering one of the biggest growth prospects in the Global Oil industry. In return for your services candidates will receive a highly competitive base salary and excellent benefits scheme. For more information please apply online.

Senior Exploration Geologist

Leading independent Oil Company urgently seek a highly skilled skilled senior exploration geologist to join their Stavanger based team. This company have rapidly increased their North Sea portfolio over the last two years through both acquisition and increased exploration activity.

The successful candidate will undertake geological evaluations for exploration, new ventures and existing business ventures whilst managing technical and professional relationships with government bodies, partners and competitors.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Undertake and manage JV and AMI relationships, work programs, regional and licence evaluations and new venture business as part of the company's desire to develop its Norwegian business.


• Represent the company in meetings with Government bodies and partners/competitors.


• Present regional and prospect specific reviews and recommendations to board members.


• Originate creative new ventures ideas and analyses to identify new plays and opportunities.


• Mentor and manage junior staff in the office to aid with their career progression.


• Represent Geology within the exploration team.


• Integrate commercial considerations into technical evaluations.

Ideal candidates will have a full understanding of petroleum system analysis covering source, maturation, Accumulation, reservoir and trap. They will ideally have a good knowledge of the UKCS and NCS regional geology from previous experience and have the ability to run projects in coordination with other UKCS and NCS companies. Candidates with a good knowledge of sedimentology, sequence strat, well site operations, volumetrics and risking are ideal as is a broad knowledge of log analysis, geochemistry and economics. Candidates will preferably have prior experience participating in the UKCS and NCS licensing rounds and demonstrate an ability to put a round application together. Candidates should be proficient on the Kingdom software suite and have a good knowledge of Unix based software applications.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a growing team in a progressive forward thinking business. In return for their services candidates will be rewarded with a competitive base salary and excellent benefits scheme. Exceptional candidates living out side of Norway may be eligible for an expat benefits scheme.

For further information please apply online.

Senior Geophysicist

Leading independent Oil Company urgently seek a highly skilled skilled senior exploration geophysicist to join their Stavanger based team. This company have rapidly increased their North Sea portfolio over the last two years through both acquisition and increased exploration activity.

Candidates will be responsible for undertaking geological evaluations for exploration, new ventures and existing business ventures for the company. They will also manage technical and professional relationships with Government bodies and partners.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Undertake and manage JV and AMI relationships, work programmes, regional and license evaluations and new venture business.
* Manage the planning, budgeting, processing, reprocessing of seismic data.
* Identify and develop drillable prospect areas by acquiring, processing and interpreting seismic data.
* Provide geophysical analysis and input for the evaluation of proven and prospective hydrocarbon accumulations in the companies Norwegian operations.
* Originate creative new venture ideas and analyses to identify new plays and opportunities.
* Mentor and manage junior staff in the office to aid their career progression.
* Provide a strong geophysical influence on the exploration team.
* Functional responsibility for the workstation environment and ensure the geophysical data base is maintained and updated regularly.
* Must be able to integrate commercial considerations into technical evaluations.

Ideal candidates will have a good knowledge of both the UKCS and NCS geology and be able to run projects with other UKCS and NCS focussed companies. They should have strong experience working on the Kingdom software suite and other Unix based interpretation packages. Candidates must have the ability to carry out processing and interpretation of geophysical data for producing structural maps for areas, prospects or discoveries which are geologically consistent. They should have an understanding of seismic attribute analysis with a demonstrated ability to apply the correct attribute analysis to reduce risk no prospects and plays. Candidates will preferably have a knowledge of seismic data loading, PSDM creation, VSP analysis and generation of synthetics.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a growing team in a progressive forward thinking business. In return for their services candidates will be rewarded with a competitive base salary and excellent benefits scheme. Exceptional candidates living out side of Norway may be eligible for an expat benefits scheme.

For further information please apply online.