Senior Process Engineer (IA2IA)

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Yokogawa is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Petroleum Engineer to join our dynamic team in UAE. This role will be pivotal in developing and implementing innovative solutions for Upstream and in particular gas lift well optimization. The successful candidate will leverage their deep understanding of reservoir engineering, gas lift principles, well performance analysis, and data-driven methodologies to identify opportunities, design workflows, and deploy tools that maximize production and efficiency. You will collaborate closely with Partnering client organizations and their teams (like production operations, reservoir engineering, and data science teams) to deliver tangible results and contribute to our operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Identify Optimization Opportunities: Analyze well performance data, including production rates, pressures, gas injection volumes, and equipment parameters, to pinpoint wells with potential for gas lift optimization.
• Develop and Implement Optimization Strategies: Design and implement gas lift optimization strategies, including nodal analysis, injection gas rate optimization, valve spacing adjustments, and plunger lift integration where applicable.
• Develop Data-Driven Solutions: Utilize data analytics and machine learning techniques to build predictive models, automated workflows, and real-time monitoring dashboards for gas lift systems. Investigate the application of machine learning (ML) techniques for virtual flow metering (VFM) in oil wells.
• Tool and Workflow Development: Participate in the development and deployment of software tools, scripts, and workflows to streamline gas lift optimization processes and improve decision-making.
• Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing: Work closely with production operations, reservoir engineers, and data scientists to share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned related to gas lift optimization.
• Research and Innovation: Stay abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in gas lift optimization and propose innovative solutions to enhance our operations.

Skills

• Software skills in software analysis, design, methodology, and architecture
• Strong exposure to process automation and optimization technologies, including APC, RTO, automated data collection, historian applications (OSI PI a plus), visualization, quality and efficiency in manufacturing, automated decision control, workflow, database applications and scheduling.
• Basic knowledge on advanced data analysis is added value.
• Anticipates the needs for change and supports and promotes companywide programs, strategies, and initiatives.
• Develop and identifies Industry / application-wide Digital technologies suitable for business use.
• Creates an environment conductive to successful interaction and customer satisfaction.
• Early engagement with Customers and explore long term partnership agreements.