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Total Exploration Nigeria: Metering Engineer
Total Exploration & Production Nigeria is recruiting for Metering Engineer. The role will be based in Port Harcourt.

METERING ENGINEER

Job description :

This job is within the framework of the AKPO Operations. AKPO is a large deep sea oil & gas field, integrating subsea wells, flowlines, risers, a FPSO, an off-loading buoy, export lines and their associates facilities. The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following duties:

• Follow-up condition and ensure accuracy of all metering systems; visit FPSO regularly to evaluate equipment condition and audit the working practices in relation with the metering systems
• Ensure and update as necessary the validity of the procedures and other reference documents (production or maintenance related) related to the metering systems
• Shall react effectively where necessary to site maintenance requests and manage metering interventions to reduce downtime due to metering systems failure
• Ensure update of metering database to ease administration and increase access to metering information to the relevant users.
• Ensure that periodical meter proving, prover loop and tank/vessel calibrations are carried out according to the Department of Petroleum Resources requirements and the certifications of same, duly approved by same regulatory body, DPR.
• Follow-up quarterly validation of Akpo fiscal gas metering instrumentation and sampling for laboratory compositional determination of impurities by a third party certifying company and NLNG.
• Communicate effectively with the well performance team / GSR on the reliability of well test measurements on the test separators and/or multi phase flow metering unit(s) (BS&W, GOR, density measurement as used in water content determination or Net Oil, etc)
• Detect the anomalies of the metering units/ systems; Initiates adequate corrective actions,
• Organize, and as necessary supervises the calibration and repairs.

Required skills :

Education :

The ideal candidate should have a minimum of a BSC in Engineering preferably in Instrumentation;
Professional experience (total number of years): 5 years in Oil and Gas industry; including 3 years minimum operational experience of Metering systems or instrumentation.

Experience :

The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years experience in the Oil and Gas industry; including 3 years minimum operational experience of Metering systems or instrumentation.

Skills :

The ideal candidate should have excellent command of written and spoken English, good communication skills.

Deadline: 3rd June 2010
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