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Work Groups
Reservoir Surveillance
The Reservoir Surveillance Group is responsible for:
- Optimising production from all platforms via gaslift, workovers, wireline and well cycling
- Forecasting production for coming years - month to month
- Implementing surveillance strategies for reservoir management
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Reservoir Technology
The Reservoir Technology Group is responsible for the discovery, evaluation, development and long term management of oil and gas fields. This includes:
- Monitoring actual field performance data
- Identifying opportunities to boost recovery and resource value through reservoir simulation
- Economic analysis, design and coordination of development and additional drilling programs
- Long term production forecasting and depletion planning
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Subsurface Engineering
The Subsurface Engineering Group is responsible for:
- Engineering the mechanical aspects of all offshore wells and installed well equipment including design, installation and coordination of ongoing maintenance programs
- Optimising workover and wireline operations
- Determining the technical feasibility of well work and implementing appropriate technology to effect cost efficient solutions
- Minimising risk of operations through downhole design and by maintaining operations integrity
Facilities Surveillance
There are two surveillance groups, Offshore and Onshore. The Facilities Surveillance Group:
- Provides technical expertise to Operations in process and machinery areas
- Identifies and progresses opportunities to improve safety, environment and production performance
- Maintains and communicates long term operating objectives for the platforms or plants
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Inspection Engineering
The Inspection Engineering Group:
- Manages inspection of fixed pressure containing equipment including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, process piping and pipelines to ensure ongoing integrity
- Analyses process chemistry and corrosion mechanisms to achieve most cost-effective inspection
- Manages inspection of topside and underwater structures of offshore platforms
- Conducts failure analyses and re-direct inspection programs as required
Maintenance and Reliability
The Maintenance and Reliability Group:
- Provides technical support across all sites in the areas of electrical power systems, control and instrumentation and rotating machinery (generators, gas compressors, oil export pumps)
- Identifies and implements equipment reliability improvements
- Eliminates low value maintenance and provides technical support to operations groups to achieve sustainable reductions in operating costs and production down time
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Retrofits Projects
The Retrofits Projects Group:
- Manages and coordinates facility upgrade projects at Esso's facilities (Offshore, LFD, LIP and BBMT) including project scoping, scheduling, funding, contract administration, design, fabrication, construction and commissioning stages
- Projects are implemented through contracts with design consultants & construction contractors
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Safety, Regulatory & OIMS
The Safety, Regulatory and Operational Integrity Management Systems (OIMS) Group:
- Provides specialised advice to employees and contractors on safety and environmental matters
- Acts as the focal point for information on safety performance and trends
- Manages compliance and regulatory reporting associated with site licenses and permits
- Conducts risk assessments to confirm the safety and integrity of upstream operations and facilities
- Undertakes studies looking at the impact of operations on the environment
- Develops and submits reports to inform government and industry of environmental impacts associated with past and future operations
- Conducts and assists with environmental risk assessments
Gas Marketing
The Gas & Power Marketing Group:
- Develops and implements short and long term strategies for gas marketing
- Markets natural gas and electricity
- Develops and captures markets for new gas production
- Maximises the value of gas resources and associated infrastructure
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Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Marketing
The NGL Marketing Group:
- Develops and maintains NGL business strategy and implementation plans focusing on integration benefits across the entire value chain
- Markets, negotiates and executes NGL (ethane, propane and butane) sales
- Develops and captures markets for new NGL production from Longford/Long Island Point (LIP) plants and Altona Refinery
- Buys, sells and exchanges NGL's to balance supplies with sales
- Optimises refineries and LIP NGL logistics and maximises profitability through general interest economic analysis of NGL business opportunities
Process Engineering - Refining & Supply
The Process Engineering Group:
- Monitors the performance of refinery process units
- Makes recommendations to improve refinery performance
- Provides timely and cost effective solutions to the more complex technical problems
- Develops process designs and equipment process specifications
Maintenance & Reliability - Refining & Supply
The Maintenance and Reliability Group:
- Develops and implements strategies, programs and procedures to achieve equipment reliability and safety outcomes
- Provides maintenance and turnaround work scopes which result in maximum plant availability at competitive cost
- Implements and manages equipment reliability processes within appropriate teams to ensure plant availability is maximised and reactive maintenance is minimised
Distribution - Refining & Supply
The Distribution Group:
- Provides best practice engineering and project management services across the Distribution and Supply Business, Lubes Business, Aviation and Fuels Distributor business and strategic Commercial Customers
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Exploration
Exploration tasks include:
- Assessment of hydrocarbon systems in sedimentary basins
- Seismic interpretation and mapping
- Drilling programs and well log analysis
- Business planning and economic evaluations
Support Services
Support services include:
- Finance and accounting
- Treasurer's
- Controllers
- Human resources
- Global information systems (IT)
