Asset Development Director

NOC – Murzuq Oil Services Ltd (MOSL) is a business services company incorporated in the UK by the National Oil Corporation of Libya (NOC). Our prime focus is to create value for our Internal clients, petroleum and natural gas extraction businesses, by providing support to enable them to improve their business processes and corporate performance. We are looking for an experienced professional to lead the E&P side of our business.

Asset General

• Own, develop, and integrate the life of field plan for accountable assets.
• Establish an operational plan for the development and operation of the asset;
• Engage in ambitious target setting for the asset.
• Enable proper tracking of asset performance in accordance with the MOUSL Energy Limited performance management framework.
• Drive end-to-end asset performance ensuring maximized and safe value creation.
• Coordinate and prioritise activities from technical and commercial point of view, balancing the short and the long-term view.
• Ensure a sound and company consistent operating rhythm in the asset to enable effective management, transparency, and performance
• Identify capacity and capability needs for  the asset in close coordination  with relevant operations verticals.
• Define and drive the formulation of a field strategy for the asset
• Provide asset related input to the yearly Business Planning Process for the business Unit.
• Own and prioritise the asset opportunity portfolio.
• Identify and communicate the need for technical service provision for the asset;
• CAPEX and OPEX allocation within the asset.
• Take asset group decisions, within authority limits, in an often uncertain and ambiguous environment.
• Execute and  manage  tendering  process  for  asset  operations  contractors  in  close collaboration with Procurement.

Safety and Asset Integrity
• Drive asset safety and deliver best practice HSE performance.
• Demand  high  standards  of  service  provision  and  provide  clear,  balanced  feedback  to providers.
• Improve asset integrity by delivering plans and ensuring that agreed integrity priorities are completed.
• Contribute to maintaining a strong incident free culture within asset(s) by role modelling safety behaviours and taking corrective action wherever necessary.
• Ensure  a  top  quartile  asset  safety  performance  by  diligently  driving  the  principles  of Incident-Free and Process Safety in the asset. Operations
• Deliver production volumes as per the individual asset, business, and work plans within budget as applicable.
• Optimize production reliability.
• Coordinate  execution  of  operational  functions  (e.g.,  Maintenance  and  Turnaround Programs).
• Ensure that the asset is working “in the box” at all times and optimize performance within defined envelopes

• Coordinate and prioritise activities from technical and commercial point of view, balancing the short and the long-term view.
• Ensure a sound and company consistent operating rhythm in the asset to enable effective management, transparency, and performance
• Identify capacity and capability  needs for  the asset in close coordination  with relevant operations verticals.
• Define and drive the formulation of a field strategy for the asset
• Provide asset related input to the yearly Business Planning Process for the business Unit.
• Own and prioritise the asset opportunity portfolio.
• Identify and communicate the need for technical service provision for the asset;
• CAPEX and OPEX allocation within the asset.
• Take asset group decisions, within authority limits, in an often uncertain and ambiguous environment.
• Execute  and  manage  tendering  process  for  asset  operations  contractors  in  close collaboration with Procurement.

Safety and Asset Integrity
• Drive asset safety and deliver best practice HSE performance.
• Demand high standards  of  service  provision  and  provide  clear,  balanced  feedback  to providers.
• Improve asset integrity by delivering plans and ensuring that agreed integrity priorities are completed.
• Contribute to maintaining a strong incident free culture within asset(s) by role modelling safety behaviours and taking corrective action wherever necessary.
• Ensure  a  top  quartile  asset  safety  performance  by  diligently  driving  the  principles  of Incident-Free and Process Safety in the asset.

Operations
• Deliver production volumes as per the individual asset, business, and work plans within budget as applicable.
• Optimize production reliability.
• Coordinate  execution  of  operational  functions  (e.g.,  Maintenance  and  Turnaround Programs).
• Ensure that the asset is working “in the box” at all times and optimize performance within defined envelopes.
• Ensure cost-effective project delivery within specified targets and timelines
• Ensure operational readiness & assurance such that the asset is ready to operate.
• Ensure integrity and production loss threats are understood and mitigated.
•  Integrate operations perspectives to develop an overall asset plan.
•  Ensure  integration  of  operational  activities,  linking  discipline  area  capabilities  and resolving issues between onshore teams.

Subsurface
• Manage and optimize day-to-day well stock.
• Identify and  deliver  near-term  asset  subsurface  opportunities  (e.g.,  well  interventions, unlocking Locked in Potential).
• Integrate subsurface perspectives to develop an overall asset plan. Planning and Optimisation
• Support and coordinate development of asset group business plan e.g., assumptions.
• Own the life of field plan and coordinate and deploy life of field strategies (e.g., with Growth function)
• Optimize asset planning, from medium-term activity plans to daily planning (e.g., making trade-offs on bed space).
• Manage  external  (e.g.,  non-operated  partners)  and  regulatory  (e.g.,  DPR)  stakeholder relations.

People
• Demonstrate a high standard of leadership and be great with people.
• Coach direct reports as required