TAQA has a vacancy for a Production Data Analyst (Part-Time) to join the team on a contract basis for a duration of 6 months.

The job is offered on a flexible part-time basis, 2-3 days per week and could suit someone returning to the industry.

Why work for TAQA?

TAQA is committed to helping its employees and contractors work more flexibly to suit both their own and the Company's needs.

Flexible Working

TAQA is open to receiving applications from candidates that work variable hours. If this is important to you, we encourage you to talk to us to see if we can make it work for both you and the business.

Agile Working

All employees and contractors at TAQA can participate in Agile Working. Agile Working means individuals can find an optimum balance between home/office working and flexibility on when and where contracted hours are worked. The aim is to deliver business results, whilst supporting a work/life balance and promoting a positive culture that supports engagement and retention. Individuals can establish their own working pattern with their line manager to accommodate business requirements and personal preferences within an agreed framework.

Compressed Working Week (CWW)

TAQA offers onshore employees and contractors a Compressed Working Week (CWW) to help achieve a healthy work-life balance. The CWW is an arrangement where employees and contractors work a standard two-week work period (10 days) over a compressed period of 9 working days i.e., employees contracted to work 37.5 hours per week will work 75 hours over 9 days (instead of 10 days). The 10th day in the second week of the CWW period is known as 'Flex Friday', a non-working day.

BASIC PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Pivotal in managing both the life of field production forecasts (for business planning) and the monthly short-term forecast updates. Responds to any additional business requirements for production forecasting and production reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordination of the business planning process
• Liaises with Reservoir engineers for well potentials
• Liaises with Production Engineers/Asset Managers for planned outage assumptions
• Liaises with wells team to agree well plug & abandonment dates and well disconnect timings
• Key contact with Production Programming team to develop reliability and fuel/flare assumptions
• Manages version control and audits output Palantir Dataflow superuser
• Provision of data for reporting to regulatory authorities and Joint Venture partners
• Works with Production Programming Team to automate business processes
• McKinsey Benchmarking data
• North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) Stewardship return
• Production Consents and consent tracking
• Technical Committee Meeting (TCM) preparation
• Support to commercial team
• Management of the Oil Field Manager (OFM) databases

JOB DIMENSIONS

Production forecasting and production data management from approximately 180 active late life wells across 18+ reservoirs within 5 hubs with an active abandonment program.

QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING

Essential

• Educated to Higher level in numerate subjects or equivalent

Preferred

• Degree or equivalent in a science/engineering discipline

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

Essential

• Expertise in production forecasting approaches
• Experience of data management and workflow practices
• Skilled user of MS Office programs, specifically Excel
• Previous Oil and Gas experience
• OFM experience

Preferred

• Palantir Dataflow experience
• Knowledge of reserve and resource definitions
• Knowledge of NSTA regulatory and reporting requirements
• Basic knowledge of subsurface engineering principles and production operations
• Familiarity with EnergySys

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS

• Able to work on own initiative and respond to changing priorities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Track record of positive working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Good planning and organizational skills with ability to plan own workload to meet tight deadlines
• Able to see inefficiencies and champion improvements

INTERACTIONS

Internal

• Operations
• Finance and Economics
• Subsurface & Production Engineers
• Hydrocarbon Allocation

External

• North Sea Transition Authority
• Joint Venture Partners
• Software vendors

Job Grade

Additional Documentation