Senior Flow Assurance Engineer

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Job Overview

The Senior Flow Assurance Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Flow Assurance (Eng) discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Flow Assurance (Eng) discipline. The Senior Flow Assurance Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline‑specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Flow Assurance Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Flow Assurance (Eng) team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform pre‑FEED / conceptual, FEED Studies, and Detailed Design analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed fluid characteristic analysis, system modeling, calculations, simulations, and results analyses including study reports, as well as procedures if required
• Help lead engineer to prepare project bidding documents, i.e. FA SOW, CTR, etc.
• Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short‑term work activities in own area
• Focus on completing work within budgets with high‑quality
• Takes the delegated lead over the discipline project team when necessary
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
• Familiar with and follow McDermott Unifi Processes / Procedures regarding Flow Assurance engineering
• Have a sound fundamental understanding of basic engineering and academic projects on – petroleum fluids and phase behavior / fluid dynamics / pressure behavior / thermodynamics / heat transfer
• Have a sound fundamental understanding of single‑phase and multiphase fluid flow characteristics in oil and gas production systems; and the flow patterns in the system (i.e. stratified flow, intermittent flow, annular flow, slug flow, etc.)
• Have a sound fundamental understanding of the major flow assurance issues in the production system, i.e., hydrate formation and blockage, etc.) and corresponding mitigation strategies
• Be able to use fluid PVT analysis tools, i.e., Multiflash and PVTsim for fluid characteristic analysis and create fluid files (fluid base or PVT tab files) for simulations
• Perform validations on the received reservoir fluids information; and perform fluid characteristic analysis to generate detailed fluid data documents (i.e., fluid base or pvt tables)
• Perform system modeling with flow assurance software (i.e., PIPESIM, OLGA, or PIPENET, etc.) using field layout information, system configuration, geophysical bathymetry profile, and environmental conditions; and perform simulations for different system operating conditions
• Generate technical study / analysis report based on computation / simulation results, and respond to peer review comments
• Provide technical inputs to other related disciplines and parties; provide responses and solutions to interface requirements
• Ensure good coordination with all other concerned disciplines
• Execute project closeout activities and communicate lessons learned
• Identify potential scope changes and report deviations to the team Engineer lead
• Apply all relevant procedures / codes, Client General Practices (GPs), and standards and applicable as per Project requirements
• Ensure all relevant McDermott procedures, practices, and quality standards are implemented
• Advise and assist in resolving problems related to flow assurance and system operability issues during engineering, construction, commissioning, and operation
• Challenge project requirements where there is room for improvement (Value Cost Engineering)
• Tasks as Lead Engineer :

Work as Lead Engineer on small projects / studies or acting as area lead or deputy lead

Preparing deliverable control

Reports to

Project Engineer or Lead Engineer

Functional

Supervising Department Manager

Liaise with

All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers

Supervises

Associate / Trainee and Flow Assurance Engineers

Qualifications

PIPEsim

The reassignment to other departments / construction sites / fabrication yards

About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality : laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we’re driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Engineering Services and Oil and Gas

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