Drilling Engineer @ Redmil Business Mall

Job Description

A drilling engineer develops, plans, costs and supervises the operations necessary for drilling oil and gas wells. They are involved from initial well design to testing, completion and abandonment. Drilling Engineers can be employed on land, on offshore platforms or on mobile drilling units either by the operating oil company, a specialist drilling contractor or a service company.

The role can involve administering drilling and service contracts, engineering design, the planning of wells and supervising the drilling crew on site. Drilling engineers work with other professionals, such as geologists and geoscientists, to monitor drilling progress, oversee safety management and ensure the protection of the environment.

This Drilling Engineer job description example includes the list of most important Drilling Engineer duties and responsibilities as shown below. It can be modified to fit the specific Drilling Engineer profile you're trying to fill as a recruiter or job seeker.

Drilling Engineer Duties and Responsibilities

Drilling Engineer job description should contain a variety of functions and roles including:

    Establishing and administering drilling and service contracts;
    Preparing well data sheets;
    Designing and selecting well-head equipment;
    Designing directional well paths (horizontally or multi-laterally, as appropriate);
    Contributing to conceptual field development design;
    Working with multidisciplinary professionals to evaluate the commercial viability of the well and monitor progress during drilling;
    Coordinating and supervising the work of the drilling team;
    Undertaking engineering design and the planning of wells (including development work);
    Obtaining relevant data, carrying out engineering analysis on site and recommending necessary actions and writing up reports;
    Monitoring the daily progress of well operations;
    Managing operations on behalf of small clients;
    Drawing up drilling programmes, taking account of desired production flow rates;
    Adhering to environmental protection standards, in some cases through direct

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