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Senior Reservoir Engineer

Orion Group
Aberdeen City · posted 20 August 2026
Job type
contract
Location
Aberdeen City, Scotland
Category
Engineering

Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Reservoir Engineer, based in Aberdeen.

Responsibilities

  • Lead reservoir engineering activities for the project assets, supporting effective reservoir management and field optimisation.
  • Build, maintain and interpret reservoir simulation models to support forecasting and opportunity identification.
  • Communicate reservoir performance, risks and uncertainties clearly to support business decision-making.
  • Work collaboratively across Subsurface, Wells, Operations and Commercial teams to deliver integrated outcomes.
  • Provide technical assurance and present recommendations to management, joint venture partners and regulatory stakeholders.
  • Support development projects and business growth opportunities across the wider portfolio.
  • Responsible for reservoir management through production data analysis, reservoir simulation and analysis of case prediction.
  • Reservoir engineering support provision to asset development projects, including liaising with petroleum engineering and process engineering disciplines.
  • Presenting output of work for internal QC, JV partners and regulatory authorities
  • Communication of subsurface risk and uncertainty to enable informed Area decisions
  • Integration with other functions, especially Ops, Commercial and Wells
  • Assessing and QC’ing inputs to static and dynamic reservoir models
  • Building and running reservoir models in support of production optimisation, forecasting and identification of value adding opportunities
  • Support business development activities as required.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in industry within a reservoir engineering / petroleum discipline
  • Eclipse, Petroleum Experts, Harmony and other reservoir engineering software & simulation skills, building, running and optimising models; Working knowledge of other key petrotechnical software
  • Ability to work with across disciplines to deliver value adding projects.
  • Manage integrated and complex subsurface workflows
  • Excellent technical writing and presentation skills
  • Understanding of economics, key business drivers and company goals
  • Degree in Petroleum Engineering or closely related subject

Contract position

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