Principal Pipeline Engineer Job

Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited is a leading integrated energy company committed to advancing energy security and industrialisation across Nigeria and the African continent through sustainable and innovative solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Principal Pipeline Engineer

Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• To provide pipeline Engineering expertise and support the delivery of HA & HB-Buko projects.
• The HA & HB-Buko projects aim to provide circa 350-450 MMscf/d of gas to the NLNG Train-7 from 2029+, as well as 25-30 kb/d of oil and condensate for export. The projects’ projected gas supply constitutes circa 25% of the overall supply to the NLNG Train-7.
• The HA project completed FEED in Apr-25 and is now completing the tendering phase of the project contracts. While the HB-Buko project has initiated FEED in Q2-26.
• Current plan is for a joint HA/HB-Buko FID by end of Q1-27.
• Given the strategic importance of both projects to the NLNG Train 7, and to derisk the project execution schedule to protect the First Gas Date, a full integration and optimization of HA & HB-Buko has been endorsed by the JV partners to improve the business case and to accelerate further optimizations of the projects.
• The position involves provision of technical input & assurance throughout the project lifecycle including Conceptual, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning stages, to safeguard design, technical and operational integrity. Managing all pipeline engineering activities and deliverables for HA & HB-Buko projects.

Responsibilities

• Design activities concentrate on unique topics (remotely guided by procedures or scarce precedents).
• Translates the guidelines and standards into practice and solves common technical challenges and provides technical recommendations which have a perceptible impact on local business performance; actively drives the identification, development and implementation of new technologies and opportunities to optimize field operations.
• Contributes to the training and guidance of other professionals in the field. May represent the Company externally as a subject matter expert with suppliers, customers, and external agencies.
• Integrates across engineering disciplines to achieve delivery.
• May have SME responsibilities for regional/global Functional community.
• Leads discipline team/tasks within design, construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities/plant, interfacing with stakeholders and managing contractors.
• Provide specialist skills, integrity, and knowledge in key areas of subsea pipeline engineering, including design codes, legislative requirements, and current good engineering practice.
• Undertake responsibility for production of deliverables, which may include engineering support to the drafting office, design calculations, procedures, analyses, progress reports, bid evaluations, study reports and various third-party submissions.
• Undertake responsibility for delivery of full pipeline design scopes on projects through management of junior engineers with minimal supervision.
• Provide pipeline analysis support for projects.
• Provide technical guidance to designers and less experienced engineers from multidisciplinary team.
• Provide detailed design and analysis of rigid pipeline systems in accordance with acknowledged industry codes, standards and design guides, and scopes of work.
• Provide mechanical line sizing, integrity calculations, thermo-mechanical analysis for offshore pipelines.
• Manage the performance of detailed pipeline engineering activities including:
• Wall thickness selection:
  • On-bottom stability analysis
  • Allowable free-span analysis
  • Thermal expansion analysis
  • Bottom roughness analysis
  • Thermo-mechanical design (low cycle fatigue analysis, lateral buckling and walking analysis)
  • Rigid spool and jumper design
  • Pipeline route selection / optimization.
  • Pipeline crossing design.
  • Installation analysis
• Production and checking of design documentation including feasibility reports, detailed design reports, equipment specifications etc.
• Provide support for preliminary pipeline routing assessments considering all interfaces, functional requirements, manmade and geo hazards using results from geotechnical and geophysical (G&G) survey.
• Coordinate pipeline engineering support to the execution of multidiscipline projects in line with defined budget and schedule.
• Liaise with associated subsea related disciplines and understand the interfaces within a project.
• Provide pipeline engineering assistance during occasional periods of offshore or site works.
• Supervise Pipeline Engineers and support in Quality Assurance/Quality Control of FEED and detailed design deliverables.
• Train / mentor junior and graduate engineers.
• Actively participate in relevant training to pursue continuing professional development.
• Provide input to project cost and schedule estimating.
• Assist with the development of the project specifications and purchase requisitions, as well providing support to bidding and subcontractor selection processes.
• Assist with development of pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures and activities including, testing, flooding, pigging, gauging, assessing, and mitigating risks, coordinating with other facility disciplines, and implementing process safety in work execution.
• Participate in Project reviews, HAZID, HAZOP and others.
• Promote zero accident, zero incident culture through inherently safe design meeting all regulatory requirements, and applicable industry codes and standards.
• Manages the relation with multiple (groups of) internal and external stakeholders on tactical/strategic level and manages opposite interests. Scale and severity of consequences if things go wrong are moderate, requiring careful stakeholder management from an impact and reputation perspective.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 14 years of experience within the oil and gas industry
• Experience with offshore platforms, FPSOs, or onshore terminals is desirable.
• Knowledge of HSSE framework and International engineering standards, best practices, and systems.
• A good understanding of practices, standards and technologies relating to Oil and Gas facilities.
• Strong team, personal and people management skills, committed to learning and continuous improvement
• Considerable customer focus, interpersonal skills and commercial astuteness are required together with initiative, expertise and energy to identify and exploit business opportunities.
• Good communication skill is essential.
• Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision making, personal relations and communications skills are paramount for success. Inter-cultural awareness, team integration abilities are a requirement.
• Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision.