Drilling Performance Engineer

Position : Drilling Performance Engineer

Industry : Oil & Gas

Location : Kuala Lumpur (office-based, with offshore/site visits as required)

Employment Type : Contract – 2 years

Scope of Works:

• Monitor drilling performance against plans, benchmarks and technical limits.
• Analyse drilling data to identify operational inefficiencies, non-productive time (NPT) and potential cost savings.
• Use digital drilling platforms such as Corva, NOV Kaizen / NOVOS and WITSML to monitor and analyse drilling performance.
• Develop performance dashboards and reports using Excel, Power BI or other analytical tools.
• Conduct technical-limit analysis and benchmark performance across wells and drilling activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve drilling efficiency, reduce operational delays and optimise drilling automation.
• Prepare end-of-well performance reviews and compare planned versus actual performance.
• Analyse recurring operational issues and recommend practical improvement initiatives.
• Validate drilling data from rig systems, daily drilling reports and service providers.
• Track improvement actions and verify the time and cost savings achieved.
• Provide performance reports, lessons learned and recommendations to the Drilling Manager.

Requirement(s):

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum 3–5 years of drilling and well-construction experience, with at least 3 years in drilling engineering, drilling operations, drilling performance or drilling analytics
• Strong understanding of offshore drilling operations and multi-well development campaigns.
• Experience in drilling performance analysis, NPT analysis and technical-limit benchmarking.
• Hands-on experience with drilling data and digital performance monitoring systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI, SQL or Python is an advantage
• Experience with Corva, NOV Kaizen / NOVOS, WITSML, WellView / OpenWells or equivalent platforms is preferred.
• Good understanding of drilling operations, drilling parameters, BHA and bit performance, tripping, casing and cementing
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret operational data and provide practical, data-driven recommendations.

Added Advantage:

• Experience with jack-up rigs and repetitive development drilling campaigns.
• Gulf of Thailand drilling experience.
• Experience with slimhole, tubingless or monobore development wells.
• Knowledge of drilling automation and real-time performance analytics.

Note: Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted as part of shortlisting process