- Company: West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP)
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Job type: Full-time
- Deadline: 20 October 2026
About the role
West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP) is seeking a Well Planning Engineer to join the Wells department in Lagos. The company operates OML 71 and OML 72 on behalf of the WAEP-NNPC Joint Venture. In this role, you will report to the Wells Manager or EGM Wells. Your primary purpose is to develop integrated well plans, schedules, cost estimates, and execution readiness requirements to support the safe and efficient delivery of drilling, completion, intervention, and abandonment activities.
Responsibilities
- Support annual Wells work programmes, budgets, and campaign planning.
- Track planning milestones and report on deviations, constraints, and recovery actions.
- Maintain planning records, lessons learned, and performance benchmarks for continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain well planning assumptions, time estimates, cost forecasts, and look-ahead plans.
- Create integrated well activity plans and detailed execution schedules in collaboration with Wells and asset teams.
- Integrate rig, vessel, materials, personnel, and service-company requirements into executable plans.
- Support the preparation and assurance of well programmes, decision-gate documentation, and execution readiness reviews.
- Identify critical-path activities, schedule risks, and readiness gaps, and coordinate mitigation actions.
- Coordinate technical inputs for well design, sequencing, logistics, contracting, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 8-12 years of relevant upstream oil and gas experience with substantial exposure to wells planning and execution.
- Proficiency in recognized planning and scheduling tools.
- Project management certification is an added advantage.
- Core competencies include performance reporting, integrated well planning, multidisciplinary coordination, risk management, cost and time estimation, operational readiness, wells logistics integration, and scheduling and critical-path analysis.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to careers@waepco.com. Please use “Well Planning Engineer Application” as the subject of the email. Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The application deadline is 20th October, 2026.
Apply by email: careers@waepco.com
