SENIOR PETROLEUM/RESERVOIR ENGINEER

NEW VENTURES - LONDON BASED

Company
Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) is the E&P division of Sasol, one of the top 50 global energy
companies. SPI has operations in Mozambique and Papua New Guinea and interests in South Africa,
West Africa, and Australia. SPI’s strategic focus is exploration and monetisation of stranded gas. Its
current equity production is 40,000 boepd and it is in the middle of an expansion project to increase
production to 55,000 boepd by 2011. The company strategy is to achieve 150,000 boepd by 2025.

Department
The Technical Services function of SPI consists of Petroleum Engineering, Geoscience, Projects &
Engineering, and Value Assurance and is made up of a team of 50 professionals, split between
Johannesburg and London. The department is headed by General Manager of Technical Services,
who sits on the Executive Committee of SPI and reports directly to the Managing Director.

The role of Technical Services is to ensure that SPI’s strategic, tactical and operational decisions are
well founded on sound technical study and analysis in line with good oilfield practice. This is achieved
by maintaining a well-resourced function of skilled staff provided with the necessary technology and
applying appropriate practices and processes.

The Technical Support Team provides essential upstream data management and technical
application support to the Technical Services staff. This small team is split between London and
Johannesburg. The team has a key role in SPI and during 2010 will roll out company wide solutions
for technical E&P storage, physical and EDMS data delivery needs.

Position Summary
To provide high quality petroleum engineering support to the exploration, new ventures and
acquisition teams and from time to time provide petroleum engineering support to operated and non-
operated company assets as assigned by the Manager, Petroleum Engineering. The incumbent will
also be required to assist with new business development activities, functional initiatives, training and
supervision of junior members of the group and managing technical work carried out by specialist
consultancies.

Job Requirements
Qualifications and Capabilities
• Bachelor degree in a strongly mathematical or physics-oriented subject is required.
• MSc or PhD in petroleum engineering or reservoir engineering is desirable.
• Fluency in written and spoken use of the English language is required. Knowledge of other
languages would be an advantage.
• Current and up to date software capability using office and collaborative applications is required.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills are required.
• Ability to work alone under own initiative, or in close collaboration with geoscientists, facilities
engineers and other reservoir engineers as part of a team is required.
• Ability to perform analysis, interpretation and problem solving at all levels of complexity with
varying volumes of data is required.
• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed virtual team is required. This will include the
recognition of the need for regular inter-continental travel.
• Understanding of and willingness to work in a matrix organisation is required.
• Understanding of the importance of Sasol Values and other Sasol Group working policies is
required.
Specific Expertise and Experience
• Expertise in well test analysis, nodal analysis, material balance analysis and production
monitoring techniques is required.
• Expertise in the construction, running, history-matching and prediction running of reservoir
simulation models, together with the incorporation of geological models, is required.
• Broad experience from a variety of countries, basins and fields.
• Experience of working in the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas assets is required.
• Track record of working in fast-paced working environment and capability of simultaneous
handling of multiple projects.
• Experience in application of statistical methods for rock parameter distribution, stochastic
volumetric estimation, field development planning and economic valuation is required.
• Experience with resources estimation methodology is required and knowledge of SPE-PRMS in
particular is required.
• Understanding of the planning and interpretation of routine and special core analysis is desirable.
• Understanding of the planning and interpretation of PVT analysis is desirable.
• Understanding of the interpretation of modern open-hole and cased-hole logs would be an
advantage.
• Current capability with reservoir engineering interpretation and modelling software is required.
Eclipse, OFM, GEM/IMEX, Saphir, Petroleum Expert IPM suite and Petrel expertise is desirable.
• Experience in reservoir development studies and field development planning is required.
• Study and operational experience of gas and gas condensate field appraisal, development and
operation is desirable.
• Study and operational experience in both sandstone and carbonate environments would be an
advantage.
• Experience in partnership/JV operations would be an advantage.

Required Outputs: Functional (The core content and deliverables of the position)
• Provide consistent, detailed and integrated petroleum engineering interpretations for exploration,
new ventures and acquisition teams.
• Construct asset resources and reserves evaluation at the appropriate level of detail.
• Provide petroleum engineering input into SPI’s Resource Statement and Prospect Inventory as
appropriate
• Carry out studies and provide petroleum engineering input into acreage evaluation, prospect
evaluation, well proposals, reservoir development studies and field development plans

Required Outputs: General (Overall objectives/Key Areas of Performance)

• Provide highest standards of collaborative support to the Project Managers for SPI projects as
required from time to time
• Represent SPI interests in external dealing with contractors, consultants and industry forums
• Support SPI interests on joint projects
• Report to Manager, Petroleum Engineering on functional reservoir engineering matters
Person Attributes: Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Characteristics – Critical/
Desirable)

Weight
Competency Must Wish
1-10
Expert technical and analytical (reservoir engineering) skills X 10
High technical and personal work standards X 10
Technical report writing and presentation skills X 8
Team working (virtual), collaboration and interpersonal skills X 8
Ability to work on own initiative X 8
Setting goals and achieving them X 8
Meeting deadlines and targets X 8
Ability to work with varying volumes of data X 7
Ability to work at all levels of complexity X 7
Embracing new ideas/strategies/technologies X 6
Flexibility to adapt to changes X 6
Innovation and creativity X 5
Communication and influencing skills X 6
Management, Leadership & Development of others X 3
Motivating others to achieve targets X 3
Project Management Skills X 3
Managing diverse groups X 3
Willingness to travel X 7

Organisational Structure/Position

GM, Technical
Services

Manager,
Petroleum
Engineering

Senior Petroleum/
Reservoir Engineer

For further information and a confidential discussion please contact Liz Gardner at Simpson Crowden
LLP on +44(0)207 016 9768 or +44 (0)7801 711372.

To apply please visit our website: www.simpsoncrowden.com/sasol and follow the links, or email your
CV and covering letter to sasol@simpsoncrowden.com quoting reference R220.