Reservoir Engineer
Shell
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Job Overview
Location
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type
Full-time
Work Arrangement
On-site
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Experience Level
Senior (5-8 years)
About the Company
Shell is a global leader in the energy sector, comprising energy and petrochemical companies with a vast presence across more than 70 countries and employing 96,000 individuals. The company is committed to transitioning towards becoming a net-zero emissions business while continuing to supply essential energy globally.
At Shell, people are considered the cornerstone of their success, shaping the company's culture through values of honesty, integrity, and respect. They are dedicated to advancing the energy challenge together and fostering an environment where employees can develop their skills and progress in their careers.
Shell also champions diversity, equity, and inclusion, aiming to be one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies, ensuring everyone feels valued, respected, and a strong sense of belonging.
Job Description
Join Shell's Deepwater team as a Reservoir Engineer and play a crucial role in optimizing production through expert management of rig workovers and new drilling initiatives. This position is central to unlocking resource value, making critical investment decisions, and driving tangible production impact.
You will be responsible for implementing development activities to enhance and safeguard asset production potential, applying scientific principles to understand and predict reservoir performance, and generating accurate production forecasts and resource volume estimates for new wells. Your expertise will be vital in ensuring compliant resource estimation and reporting, supporting data acquisition, and managing risks.
This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate, influence major development activities, and support high-value assets within one of Shell’s most dynamic environments. If you are passionate about shaping the future of wells, reservoirs, and field management, this is your chance to make a significant contribution.
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Required Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Perform and support all aspects of Reservoir Engineering for work program replenishment.
- Implement Post DG-3 Development activities to increase and optimize asset production potential.
- Apply scientific principles to understand and predict dynamic reservoir performance.
- Generate production forecasts and resource volume estimates for new wells.
- Estimate recoverable volumes and forecast for new opportunities.
- Ensure discipline input is captured in well proposals.
- Support data acquisition (PVT, Cores, logs) and risk/uncertainty management.
- Support well and reservoir monitoring and management activities.
- Ensure compliant resource volume estimation & reporting.
- Coordinate Technical Assurance of individual deliverables.
- Act as a technical coach to team members.
- Present discipline and cross-discipline work to senior management and regulators.
Qualifications
- University degree in a technical/scientific subject, preferably in Petroleum Engineering.
- Significant experience as a Reservoir Engineer with a proven track record.
- Strong technical competence in core reservoir engineering.
- Good understanding of other sub-surface disciplines.
- Ability to work independently.
- Good inter-personal and communication skills.
- Ability to operate in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Fully familiar with all reservoir engineering technical and productivity computing.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight timelines.
- Able to manage all HSSE issues.
Benefits & Perks
- Opportunity to work with experienced professionals.
- Chance to innovate and influence major development activities.
- Support for high-value assets and tangible production impact.
- Development of skills in a dynamic environment.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package (implied).
How to Apply
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This role is pivotal in optimizing Shell's Deepwater Asset production by managing rig workovers and new drilling activities. You will apply scientific principles to forecast reservoir performance, estimate recovery volumes, and ensure efficient production. Your contributions will directly impact high-value assets and the future of well and reservoir management.
Posted Date
March 31, 2026
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