Well Intervention Specialist

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer. 

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Well Intervention Specialist to join the Unconventional Resources (UR) Completion Engineering Division under the Completion Operations Department.

The UR Completion Engineering Division is responsible for providing completion engineering support for our Unconventional fields. The support includes multistage hydraulic fracture design, execution and evaluation, well completion design, in addition to day-to-day engineering and operations support for field rig-less activities. 

The Well Intervention Specialist’s primary role is to provide support to rig-less well intervention operations (wireline, slickline, coiled tubing and snubbing) including but not limited to plug and perf frac operations, post frac wellbore coiled tubing cleanout, through tubing fishing and milling operations, in addition to evaluation and deployment of new technologies related to well intervention operation. The Intervention Specialist will be also in charge of site visits and attendance of critical operation when needed.

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Plan the well intervention activities and for the review and validation when completed, and for providing solution for wells with integrity issues with support of well completion specialist.
• Be responsible for routine well Intervention, well diagnostics and proficient in downhole remediation practices and capable for preparing field operational procedures.
• The selection and trial test of new advanced well completion and intervention technologies will be one of your major responsibilities and to work with drilling department and frac service provider on wellhead transition, barrier requirements and design fit for purpose solutions.
• Be responsible for well and field completion performance and integrity modeling using industry recognized software.
• Ensure departmental compliance with mandated regulations and standards through constant monitoring and support for ongoing and future operations and make sure well barriers requirements are maintained in all types of intervention.

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or petroleum engineering from a recognized and approved program.
• 10-15 years’ experience in rig-less well intervention operations that includes design, planning and execution of wireline, slickline and coiled tubing operation in critical sour gas and preferably unconventional operational environment.
• Experience in unconventional resources or High-pressure high-temperature, tight gas & oil well with a very good understanding of well intervention and stimulation operation and its impact on well completion.
• Proven record in running all types intervention operations required in unconventional wells: Completion design, Tubing movements, Coiled tubing, Wireline, slick line, Hydraulic fracturing, flow back and capable of issuing a complete detailed program for each type of operation.
• Familiar with wellhead and downhole completion design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Extensive knowledge of industry regulations, safety practices and standards related to surface and downhole equipment selection.
• Experience in optimization of surface well intervention operation using latest new technologies and best practices.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.