Developing Yourself as a Team Leader

Section 1: Understand the role and responsibilities of the team leader

      1.1 Role of the Team Leader (12)
The role of the Deep Reservoir Management team leader is to lead a multi-disciplined subsurface team responsible for reservoir management, identification and development of new reserves, production rate obtainment, and development of enhanced oil recovery process. The Deep RMT leader is responsible for the Kharaib, Arab, Fadhilli oil reservoirs and Khuff gas reservoir.
His role is to supervise a multi-discipline staff of reservoir engineers, production engineers, geoscientists, and petrophysicists ensuring their technical and professional development. He also coordinates development, reservoir management and well work with other reservoir management teams. As well as providing business unit leadership to insure that reservoir management team work is coordinated and integrated with other departments, including: drilling, production operation, supply chain, and facilities.

      1.2 Responsibilities of the Team Leader (8)
Following are the responsibilities of the reservoir management team leader:
Reservoir Management
  * Prioritizes and coordinates reservoir surveillance and key data acquisition with Production Engineering
  * Prioritizes and coordinates reservoir surveillance and key data acquisition with Production Engineering
Technical Supervision
  * Reviews and provides technical/economic feedback on key geologic and reservoir studies and results. Ensures project timelines are met. Provides engineering support in scale up of geologic description data into comprehensive reservoir earth models to be used for both modeling and analytical efforts
Financial Control
  * Approves AFEs and unit transactions within area of responsibility in accordance with approval limits
  * Participates in developing annual budgets and long term plan
Leadership
  * Aligns efforts of reservoir engineers, geologists, production engineers for RMT
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