Drilling Engineer Requisition Number: 081119865Location: Lagos
Chevron is Recruiting for the below stated Position:

Nigeria Jobs Today for Drilling and Completions at Chevron
We hold strategic positions in some of the worlds largest and most productive oil and gas regions. The approximately 1,400 people in the Drilling & Completions (D&C) team work in some of the worlds most challenging technical and operating environments.
The D&C “Clear Leader” philosophy provides us with a passion for safety and environmental protection, leadership for the development of new and innovative drilling and completions technology, and a commitment to the education and development of our workforce.

Required Qualifications for Nigeria Jobs Today for drilling Engineer at Chevron


  • Bachelors Degree in an Engineering discipline
  • Minimum of 5 years experience as a drilling engineer or as a company representative.
    • Note: Each country has specific requirements for non-national personnel to work in their country, initial assignments will be to locations commensurate with the successful candidates education and work experience.

  • A valid passport issued from country of citizenship.
  • Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English
  • Proven competency in well design, execution planning, and drilling operations
  • Strong communication and leadership skills for interaction with technical employees in the work group, their peers, and internal and external customers
  • Candidate must be results and performance driven
  • Candidate should be self motivated with the ability to act as a change agent

Preferred Qualifications for Nigeria Jobs Today at Chevron for Drilling Engineer


  • Ability to learn non-English languages
  • Experience in multiple types of operations (e.g. land, offshore shelf, deepwater, geothermal, etc.)

Relocation Options

  • Relocation may be considered within Chevron parameters.*LI-CM1

Position Details
Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:


  • Focus on all drilling planning and execution issues
  • Developing cost estimates and scoping of data for alternative well options – consider life of well issues (e.g. future workovers, recompletions, sidetracks, abandonment, etc.)
  • Recommend drilling design alternatives (casing design, connectors, hydraulics, bit selection, drilling fluids, cement design, etc)
  • Drilling Execution – participate on a Rig team to monitor and execute the drilling program
  • Supply engineering and technical support to the Superintendent and Drill Site Manager or Company Man as necessary to execute the drilling program
  • All aspects of drilling program design, development and permitting. Coordinate the gathering of pre-drill data for design criteria; including bottom hole assembly (BHA) data, offset well data, pore pressure, frac gradient, wellbore stability data, etc.
  • Equipment procurement or forecasting
  • Management of Contracts for Third Party services
  • Vendor evaluation and selection, as well as work order development for vendors critical to the process
  • Participation in the Chevron Project Development and Execution Process (CPDEP) phase gate meetings
  • Involvement in numerous health, safety and environmental efforts
  • Mentoring of national engineers


Application Closing Date: 20th March, 2013

Application Method
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