AddressAbout Us
Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.
Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.
Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.
Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the Role
Based at our offices in Brisbane, this position reports to Team Leader Production Engineering – Cooper Surface and is responsible for optimising Santos’ assets to economically produce every hydrocarbon molecule safely, whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of the role is to:
- Maximise satellite capacity, optimise production and minimise production shortfall from lease edge to satellite export.
- Identify network pressure trends to inform a base well reinstatement program, wellhead screw compressor relocation program and debottlenecking program to maximise asset production rate and reserve.
- Drive improvement opportunities (risk, cost, production and emissions).
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Deliver a series of base reinstatement well program to re-activate long-term shut-in wells and flowlines.
- Maximise production for the asset through surveillance of satellite/flowline performance and optimisation, recommending remediation plans.
- Drive the ‘gas scavenger mindset’ within the team – Produce every molecule.
- Work collaboratively with Development, Reservoir, Operations and support functions to ensure projects are scoped and executed as per plan, and backout mitigation maximised
- Identify rate enhancement opportunities and economic projects to maximise productivity, reduce cost and reduce emissions.
- Perform economics analysis to justify optimisation projects
- Present the business case and performance lookback of projects to the joint venture partners
- Assist junior engineers to optimise and trouble shoot performance issues and understand operating strategies to help develop team competencies.
This is a full time, office-based role where site visits to the Cooper Basin will be required on an ad hoc basis. It is a unique and rewarding role in which the successful candidate will be in charge of production enhancement and production gain, with full visibility of the impact their work has!
About You
Holding relevant Mechanical and/or Chemical Engineering qualifications, the ideal candidate will possess significant work/industry experience in subsurface Production Engineering covering Compressor operations and surveillance, network flowline enhancement, production enhancement, risk management and project management. In addition, you will also possess demonstrable leadership skills along with a working knowledge of ValNav, GAP and Nodal analysis.
As this is an Optimisation Engineer focused role, it will suit candidates with a Process or Petroleum Engineering background, as well as those possessing both a collaborative and strategic approach. We’re seeking a dedicated team player who has a proven proactive and flexible approach along with strong communication skills. You will demonstrate resilience, as well as the ability to mentor junior team members.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.
We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 28 March 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/
