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Senior Digital Drilling Solutions Consultant

Progressive
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Digital drilling solutionsDrilling engineeringWell construction workflowsDrilling software platformsWell planningDrilling data management

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Role overview

Support digital drilling, well engineering, and drilling performance initiatives for a major oil and gas operator.

The role combines drilling expertise with drilling applications, data management, well-planning workflows, and performance optimization.

Work with drilling, wells, operations, and digital technology teams to improve decisions, data quality, and operational efficiency across the well lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise for digital drilling and well engineering solutions.
  • Support implementation, enhancement, and adoption of drilling and well-planning technologies.
  • Improve planning, execution, and post-well analysis workflows with drilling teams.
  • Support management, integration, and governance of drilling and well data.
  • Analyze operational performance and identify optimization and efficiency opportunities.
  • Collaborate with drilling, geology, subsurface, completions, IT, and software development teams.
  • Translate business requirements into functional specifications and technical solutions.
  • Support application configuration, deployments, testing, and user acceptance activities.
  • Facilitate workshops, training, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Contribute to digital transformation and operational excellence initiatives.
  • Develop reports, dashboards, workflows, and recommendations for data-driven decisions.
  • Support integration across drilling applications, databases, reporting platforms, and real-time data systems.

Required experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 8+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
  • Strong understanding of drilling engineering and well construction workflows.
  • Experience supporting drilling software platforms, digital drilling technologies, or well-planning solutions.
  • Knowledge of drilling operational data, engineering calculations, and performance monitoring.
  • Experience with ROP, WOB, torque, hookload, SPP, vibration, and drilling dysfunction indicators.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to work across technical, operational, and business teams.

Preferred experience

  • Experience with drilling engineering and well-planning applications, data management platforms, or data governance processes.
  • Familiarity with digital well-planning workflows and engineering databases; drilling data integration and interoperability experience is preferred.
  • Knowledge of WITSML and real-time drilling data systems is preferred.
  • Drilling performance analysis, optimization, agile delivery, or requirements and technical-deliverable work with software teams is preferred.
  • Previous field, rig-site, real-time operations centre, or drilling engineering experience is preferred.
  • Exposure to cloud, analytics, AI, or digital oilfield technologies is advantageous.

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