Professional Technical Planner
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Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited is hiring a Professional Technical Planner on a contract basis in Ikoyi, Lagos. The role supports the OML30 Portfolio through production forecasting, reserves and resource management, annual planning, and data-driven business decision-making. The planner will work closely with geoscientists, reservoir and production engineers, and JV partners to optimize production and support strategic planning activities.
- Contract technical planning role in the Niger Delta OML30 asset
- Based in Ikoyi, Lagos under Portfolio Management
- Focus on production forecasting, reserves management, and annual planning
- Requires practical business planning experience in oil and gas
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Original source description
Job Title: Professional Technical Planner - Contract
Professional Technical Planner - Contract at Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited
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Sep 17, 2026, 11:05 AM
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Established in 2016, Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (Heritage Energy) is an affiliate of Heritage Oil Limited (HOIL) a Jersey-headquartered international Oil and Gas company. Heritage Energy is also the Operator of the flagship Asset, OML 30 in the Niger Delta, which is a Joint Venture Partnership between NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (NEPL) and Shoreline Natural Resources Limited (SNRL).
Our focus is to explore underappreciated basins and assets to create value for all stakeholders – the host communities, host governments, and ultimately our shareholders, in a sustainable and responsible way.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Department: Portfolio Management
Reports to: Portfolio Manager
Job Summary
This job strongly contributes to the OML30 Portfolio by identifying short- and long-term production improvement opportunities, as well as portfolio insights leveraging on data analytics to allow good-quality business decision-making.
He / She advises the Portfolio Management Team on the potential of available data, provides new insights into the business’s production targets, uses prevailing technology, science, and data to determine if the processes in place are achieving the goals of the company.
The Senior Technical Planner is responsible for driving the annual planning cycle, technical and commercial evaluation of resources, and the portfolio value management activities of HEOSL.
Key Accountabilities
- Annual Work Program and Budget/Strategic Planning:
- Contributes technical input to the Annual Work Program and Budget activities; Coordinates and manages the cross-functional teams to define, develop, and implement business planning processes; executes key business initiatives that will drive business operations, develop, and implements best practices to meet business objectives.
- Production Forecasting:
- Prepares and issues annual production budget/forecast based on validated reservoir well profiles, planned activities (well interventions, drilling, equipment maintenance impacting on production, unplanned production impacts and other non-operational production impacts.
- Contributes to the OML-30 Oil and Gas Production Forecasting exercises including Short, Medium-, and Long-Term Forecasting for the asset budget planning cycle.
- Liaises with geoscientists, production and reservoir engineers to predict production potential.
- Reserves/Resource Volume Management:
- Contributes to technical and commercial evaluation of petroleum reserves and resources bookings and progression, looking for every opportunity to automate workflows for efficiency.
- Supports the Team’s effort to develop Reserves Support Packages for the entire OML-30 assets and prepares reports as needed.
- Annual Reservoir Performance Report:
- Contributes to the Team’s efforts to generate and maintain an Annual Reservoir Performance Report to communicate reservoir-level performance status and changes to production targets, explain variations, and capture mid-term corrective actions to the development plan
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- Resource Progression:
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- dentifies, where possible, value-generating opportunities for the company including (but not limited to) production optimization, develops reserves, improves ultimate recovery, efficiency and reduces cost. Supports business plans with production improvement opportunities.
- Production Deferment management:
- Contributes to tracking production deferment and performance of sensitivity analysis to guide operations management decisions for deferment optimisation.
- Stakeholder Engagement/Relationships:
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships and interfaces with JV partners, representing HEOSL at external meetings.
- Performs gap analysis to show production optimisation opportunities/slippages compared with budget planning.
- Disseminates best practices and guidance to less experienced team members.
- Contributes to department/ad hoc tasks for Senior Management.
- How to Apply
- Interested and qualified candidates should:
- Click here to apply online
- Note:
- No relocation support is available for this position. By submitting an application, candidates confirm that they are based in the advertised work location or will relocate at their own expense if selected
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Qualifications
- Key qualifications for this role are:
- Practical
Experience
in business planning, production forecasting, reservoir management, reserves and resource volume estimation.
Expertise using Power BI and/or Tableau or other similar tools is desirable
Proactive in nature with excellent planning & organization skills.
Broad understanding of other E&P disciplines
Be comfortable with meeting short deadlines and could deliver a quality product in a timely manner.
Petroleum Engineering or related discipline.
Minimum 6 years of relevant
in oil and gas business.
Strong math skills (e.g., statistics, algebra); exceptional analytical skills; and a pragmatic approach to problem solving informed by a well-developed concept of strategy with business acumen.
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