Job Title: Workover Consultant
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Job Description
This role provides senior-level technical consulting support for high-risk well intervention operations involving complex fishing, coiled tubing recovery, and wellbore re-entry activities. The consultant is responsible for managing challenging downhole conditions, including stuck or parted coiled tubing, long-term wellbore obstructions, and failed abandonment scenarios requiring cement drill-out and wellbore restoration. The position requires advanced well control expertise, strong decision-making ability, and extensive hands-on experience in fishing and intervention operations in critical well conditions.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert technical guidance for complex fishing operations involving stuck or parted coiled tubing and downhole equipment
- Evaluate well conditions and develop safe, executable intervention and recovery strategies for high-risk scenarios
- Maintain continuous focus on well control integrity and barrier management throughout all operations
- Advise on pressure control, kill procedures, and safe operating practices during unstable or uncertain well conditions
- Support planning and execution of multiple well re-entry operations, including cement drill-out from surface to total depth
- Assess risks associated with trapped pressure, degraded tubing, unknown wellbore conditions, and long-term shut-in wells
- Provide real-time decision support during rig-based fishing, milling, and intervention activities
- Guide selection and application of fishing tools, milling assemblies, and wellbore cleanout equipment
- Ensure proper well control practices are followed without reliance on continuous supervision
- Support troubleshooting of stuck pipe, obstruction removal, and complex wellbore recovery operations
- Assist in preparing wells for subsequent abandonment or re-abandonment operations following remediation
- Review operational procedures and provide recommendations for safe execution of high-risk tasks
- Act as technical authority for intervention risk mitigation and operational sequencing
Skills and Qualifications
- Extensive, demonstrated experience in coiled tubing intervention and advanced fishing operations
- Strong background in high-risk well control environments, including compromised or uncertain wellbores
- Deep hands-on expertise in recovering stuck or parted tubing and downhole obstructions
- Proven ability to independently manage well control situations without continuous supervision or instruction
- Extensive experience with well intervention, workover, and complex rig-based recovery operations
- Knowledge of cement drill-out, milling, and full wellbore re-entry operations
- Strong understanding of barrier management and pressure control principles
- Ability to assess and manage high-consequence operational risk in real time
- Experience working with long-duration shut-in or legacy wells with unknown downhole conditions
- Strong troubleshooting skills in complex, unstable, or unpredictable well environments
- Ability to make critical technical decisions under pressure in safety-sensitive environments
- Well control certification (IWCF or IADC) or equivalent field-proven expertise required
- Minimum extensive field experience in fishing, intervention, or workover operations (senior-level capability expected)
Job Details:
Pay: $1550/per day
Location: Rifle, CO
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