Location: Lagos
West African Exploration and Production Company (WAEP) is a Nigerian company registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under RC No. 1173358. The company has a strategic partnership with Dangote Exploration Assets Limited (80%), Dansa Energy Resources Limited (5%) and First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (15%).
In 2015, WAEP acquired a 45% working interest in OML 71 and OML 72 from the SPDC joint venture, comprising Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited. WAEP operates both oil mining leases on behalf of the WAEP-NNPC joint venture. The assets are located south of Bonny Island and contain several discovered oil fields.
WAEP is recruiting to fill the position of Senior Petroleum Engineer in Lagos.
Role Purpose
The Senior Petroleum Engineer will provide advanced petroleum engineering support for reservoir management, production optimisation, reserves maturation, well opportunity generation and field development to maximise hydrocarbon recovery and long-term asset value.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct integrated reservoir and production engineering studies to support field development and reservoir management decisions.
- Develop and update production forecasts, depletion plans and reservoir surveillance programmes.
- Evaluate reservoir and well performance using pressure, production, pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) and other subsurface data.
- Identify and mature opportunities for infill drilling, workovers, well interventions and production optimisation.
- Support integration of static and dynamic models, history matching, forecasting and uncertainty evaluation.
- Contribute to reserves and resources estimation, classification, maturation and reporting.
- Provide petroleum engineering input for Field Development Plans, annual work programmes, budgets and investment proposals.
- Collaborate with Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Wells, Production and Facilities teams to optimise field development decisions.
- Participate in well planning, well performance reviews, technical assurance and post-well evaluations.
- Coach less-experienced engineers and promote strong technical standards, documentation and knowledge sharing.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Performance will be assessed based on:
- Accuracy of production forecasts.
- Quality and timeliness of reservoir studies.
- Maturation of value-adding well opportunities.
- Quality of technical support for reserves and resources evaluation.
- Effectiveness of reservoir surveillance programmes.
- Value delivered through production optimisation.
- Compliance with technical assurance and documentation standards.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- A relevant master’s degree is an added advantage.
- 10–12 years of relevant upstream exploration and production (E&P) experience in petroleum or reservoir engineering.
- Relevant professional engineering membership or certification is desirable.
Core Competencies
- Reservoir engineering and simulation.
- Production forecasting and optimisation.
- Reservoir surveillance.
- Reserves and resources evaluation.
- Well opportunity maturation.
- Field development planning.
- Uncertainty and risk analysis.
- Petroleum economics awareness.
- Technical assurance.
- Multidisciplinary collaboration.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to [email protected], using Senior Petroleum Engineer Application as the subject of the email.
Application Closing Date: 20 October 2026.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.