Drilling Engineering Director

Specific Responsibilities

The Drilling, Completions & Workover Director – Performance Management role for Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. will be a member of Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. Drilling, Completions & Workover team at the company’s Houston, TX office reporting to the VP, Drilling, Completions & Workover (DCW). Requires collaborating with DCW Managers to drive long-term, sustainable performance. Accomplished by managing a performance team of engineers, analyst, and technical support.

Purpose/Job Summary:

Lead DCW long-term performance improvement in three key areas – operations support, data, and technology, and coordinate technical training needs.

Operational Support

Cover global operations and engineering needs solving complex problems, running analytics, support performance improvement efforts, conduct large failure investigations, and steward management system. Effort will include daily surveillance of active operations and follow-up with operations teams on problems and incidents requiring larger scale effort along with participating in peer reviews. Other support includes development of detailed drilling roadmaps, offset analysis, high-end modeling, and benchmarking.

Data and Technology:

Theme is a data-driven approach to performance improvement. Maximize and leverage digital infrastructure to deliver performance metrics, real-time data analysis, models, and data analytics. Drive efforts for data quality, standardization, streamline data flow, collection, and simplify analysis effort. Important aspect is developing, maintaining, and evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Look for ways to simply engineering and operations digital workflow and use of data.

Deploy and manage project standardizing all drilling rig data in one suppler aggregation system coupled to daily reporting tool. Enables a rig-centric advisory system incorporating an artificial intelligence engine with automated physics modeling. Effort includes managing third party suppliers, coordinate field and office training, and integration following technology roadmap to future automation.

Additional requirement to stay abreast of technology that can be leveraged to add value to Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. Explore and vet technology to bring forward to the teams that could add value and increase performance. Once sanctioned, follow through by coordinating and assisting with management of change leading to a successful implementation.

Training:

Coordinate and lead effort for technical training requirements with fit for purpose training materials and methods. Includes working with outside suppliers to develop curriculum, material, and scheduling. Effort covers both wellsite operations and engineering.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will need to have demonstrated experience and competency in the three key areas noted above including management experience. This requires strong engineering and operations knowledge, success with performance improvement projects, understanding data to drive to deeper insights, and experience with technical training programs. The position is expected to work effectively across organization Functions and Assets in a collaborative manner. Travel will be required, but not frequent.

In addition, the following is required:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

25+ years of industry experience in engineering, operations, data analytics, and project management

Diverse experience with O&G Operator, Service Company and/or Rig Contractor

Operations experience offshore and land drilling, completions, and workover knowledge

Use and analysis of high frequency data with understanding of machine learning

Excellent communicator with both field and office, across organization, and executive management

Understand use of quality tools i.e., root cause analysis, statistical control, QA/QC programs

Knowledge of subsurface geology, reservoir, and petrophysics a plus